THIS is the net result of worshipping at the altar of Secular Humanism's moral relativity.
Good luck in the Thunderdome 25 years from now.
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I suppose someone could use murder or rape as a form of speech, but those activities could still be restricted. That's because murder, rape, and threats of violence violate the rights of individuals. Your right to free speech does not extend to violating the rights of others.
However, a porno violates no one's rights, so it can't be compared to murder or rape.
Murder and rape are not speech or the press.
Construing actions as 'speech' is another of the evils of interpreting the Constitution.
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"Women make both the manners and the morals of a people. Neither rises higher than the gauge which women set in a community...Where a woman has bad manners, it always has in it an element of vulgarity which is more painful than it could be in a man. The result will be a society hopelessly vulgarized...with no end but to sink in an ever deeper abyss of vulgarity."
-- Thomas Nelson Page, 1911
"If you want to be honest about clamoring about the First Amendment, then ANYTHING can theoretically be construed as "free speech" -- including murder and rape and threats."
Good point. Since the SCOTUS decreed some years ago that naked tit** dancing is protected speech, now elephant dung on pictures of the Virgin Mary, public faux and not so faux sodomy in "Gay Pride" parades, and kiddie porn as long as it isn't (as far as they know) real children is protected "speech".
You hate to imagine where this could go. The basic rule of hedonism is because all limits or restraints on any sensual indulgence (or anything that might be construed as sensually pleasurable, no matter how painful or unnatural) are rejected on principle, there is nowhere to stop. So off the cliff is the only thing that'll stop a car with no brakes.