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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Free speech for me, but not for thee.

Reminds me if the people complaining about the open carry groups in Texas. If they’re allowed to express their right to free speech why not a bunch of atheists. You don’t have to visit a Facebook page you disagree with.


69 posted on 06/15/2014 1:51:54 AM PDT by AnAmericanInEngland
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To: AnAmericanInEngland
Free speech for me, but not for thee.

The concept of free speech in the nation's founding documents recognized that we are a nation Under God, and that our rights flow from the faith that we are a created people, and that some rights are God-given, not granted by the whim of other humans, who change their minds. God's grace is eternal and unchanging; and on that understanding arose the Bill of Rights.

These days, people who believe there is no God want to use the free speech principle that was intended for a people that honored "Nature and Nature's God" to make other people ashamed of their defense of their rights. The same First Amendment also granted freedom of religion. We cannot keep any of our Bill of Rights freedoms if we are not prepared to defend them.

81 posted on 06/15/2014 8:38:19 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("The commenters are plenty but the thinkers are few." -- Walid Shoebat)
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