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To: E Rocc
Indeed, the Bill of Rights protects the right to violate at least three of them.

The problem here doesn't lie with the Ten Commandments. Free expression including blasphemy may be tolerated in a political sense in order that greater societal vices may be minimized. But this is a prudential judgement. No one has an absolute right to blaspheme, lie, calumniate, scandalize, etc., but these things may be permitted in law ---or they may not.

226 posted on 05/19/2004 9:04:53 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: Aquinasfan
Free expression including blasphemy may be tolerated in a political sense in order that greater societal vices may be minimized. But this is a prudential judgement.

This moral relativist position hardly leaves you much room to pontificate on matters of ethics.

249 posted on 05/19/2004 9:39:50 AM PDT by steve-b
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