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To: Iam1ru1-2

When did the first amendment become the shelter of last resort for pornographers and cease to be what it was meant to be; a protection of political speech? Instead, political speech is now restricted. It's a perversion of the constitution for this kind of crap to hide behind the 1st.


3 posted on 06/14/2006 8:03:33 PM PDT by saganite (Billions and billions and billions-------and that's just the NASA budget!)
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To: saganite

Hear...Hear! What you said!


4 posted on 06/14/2006 8:07:58 PM PDT by goodnesswins ( "the left can only take power through deception." (and it seems Hillary & Company are the masters)
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To: saganite
When did the first amendment become the shelter of last resort for pornographers ...?

From the beginning. James Madison got in trouble, during his college years, for writing "ribald verse." Given that, I find it hard to believe that, when he drafted the First Amendment, he wasn't looking to protect that sort of literature as much as political speech.

31 posted on 06/14/2006 10:19:00 PM PDT by Celtjew Libertarian
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