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To: Long Cut
I was taught early on that those freedoms contained in the Constitution had a corollary...that they might be used in a manner we might NOT like, but that was no reason to abridge them.

There's another corollary to the Constitution: The fact that it's something you do like, doesn't necessarily mean it's a right enshrined in the Constitution. Porn is a case in point. It is not "speech", and it has nothing whatsoever to do with the first amendment.

587 posted on 07/14/2004 4:02:05 PM PDT by inquest (Judges are given the power to decide cases, not to decide law)
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To: inquest
"Porn is a case in point. It is not "speech", and it has nothing whatsoever to do with the first amendment."

Keep repeating this if it makes you feel better. However, those Constitutionally charged with the job of making this determination for reasons of law disagree, and have reinforced that disagreement repeatedly.

Free expression has been, on multiple occaisions by multiple courts, been determined to constitute speech. Thus, it is protected. Furthermore, you are under no obligation to partake, and thus it harms you not.

589 posted on 07/14/2004 4:06:39 PM PDT by Long Cut (The Constitution...the NATOPS of America!)
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To: inquest

I was taught early on that those freedoms contained in the Constitution had a corollary...that they might be used in a manner we might NOT like, but that was no reason to abridge them. We cannot "cherry-pick" which freedoms and Liberties we will and will not support.
-Long Cut-

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There's another corollary to the Constitution:

The fact that it's something you do like, doesn't necessarily mean it's a right enshrined in the Constitution.

Porn is a case in point. It is not "speech", and it has nothing whatsoever to do with the first amendment.
587 inquest

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And what -you- & your peers don't 'like' and see as porn can be reasonably regulated, inq.

But your options on 'regulating' are tempered by our Constitutional rule of law & due process.
You have no natural right to commit an aggression, a 'porno' prohibition, on the equal rights of your peers.


610 posted on 07/14/2004 4:54:05 PM PDT by tpaine (No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another. - T. Jefferson)
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