[Polycarp]

Which Free-speech advocate

(I might get flamed for this but...)Just curious, where can I find a Catholic doctrinal support for the "Free Speech" enshrined in the American (protestant) experiment as it has come to be reality in post-Christian America?

I'm not impressed by appeals to a code of "Free Speech" that is, in its modern form, in many ways antithetical to Catholic moral doctrine.

Hand appeals to "Free Speech" when it serves his agenda. He denies it to others though by branding them integrists when they clearly are not and have no way to refute such lies.

I saw Hand's neurotic post regarding myself and FRee Republic in his letters to ed subpage. What a liar and coward. The man IS psychotic. I'm glad he was banned here.

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[narses]

It's right there next to "Religous Liberty" I think.

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[Catholicguy]

(I might get flamed for this but...)Just curious, where can I find a Catholic doctrinal support for the "Free Speech" enshrined in the American (protestant) experiment as it has come to be reality in post-Christian America?

I'd locate it in the teaching on the State. I don't have the time to look it up now though. Free Speech wasn't about Porn and whatnot (an underused word, IMO)but about the liberty of men to criticise and speak the truth about political matters and political men.

[Mike Fieschko]

Holy smokes ... I get back to the keyboard, and I thought freeper Catholicguy had been banned. I had to load his freerepublic home page twice to make sure he's still here.

[Domestic Church]

"Just curious, where can I find a Catholic doctrinal support for the "Free Speech" enshrined in the American (protestant) experiment as it has come to be reality in post-Christian America?"

Talk about timing,lol. I got a free copy in the mail of the Latin Mass this spring and didn't pick it up until last night (after discovering it was in the hotzone here) and there is an interview with Buchanan that touches upon this issue of free speech/freedom as a product of the Enlightenment with the American version of freedom being the ability to make a choice without any pressure or coercion while the Catholic idea is that freedom isn't the right to do everything, but to do everything right as Catholicism doesn't separate freedom from moral/natural law.