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To: BOOTSTICK
So Maplethorps photos of five year old girl, with their legs wide open, and genitals exposed, is a good thing?????


Of course not, I made no such claim.

However, our COnstitution reminds US that freedom of speech and expression is our right.

I have no use for those who wish to selectively embrace our god-given rights.
101 posted on 04/24/2004 3:43:51 AM PDT by WhiteGuy (Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...)
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To: WhiteGuy
I have no use for those who wish to selectively embrace our god-given rights.

Really? It's uncommon on a conservative forum to hear from someone who claims to "have no use" whatsoever for our Founding Fathers, to say nothing of virtually everyone in their parents' generation, their grandparents' generation, their great-grandparents' generation, ........ etc.

All of those generations embraced strict censorship of porn, and simultaneously they fiercely supported the First Amendment right to Free Speech, and quite amazingly (to you at least) they saw no inherent contradiction in these two separate beliefs.

You may "have no use" for of those past generations, but most of us here feel we owe them a great debt in many ways.

110 posted on 04/24/2004 5:46:42 PM PDT by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC (This is your brain. This is your brain on liberalism. Any questions?)
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