[ctdonath2]

the case, handed down by the Supreme Court in 1942, that says the First Amendment doesn’t protect words “which, by their very utterance, inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace.”

A strange conclusion, considering that the guys who wrote the First Amendment also wrote this definitive example of "fightin' words":

[Genoa]

Religious sensibilities would not have been included as “injury.” And there was no “immediate breach of the peace” involved here. Anyone wanting to avoid the contest could just decide not to go or pay any attention to it. Easy! These terrorists drove from Arizona to Texas.

[timestax]

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