To: Publius Valerius
My point is that the line HAS been drawn. It's legal. That's the line.
That's the line now. It wasn't the line in 1957 when this was written:
Roth vs. The United States (1957)
"Obscenity is not within the area of constitutionally protected freedom of speech or press--either (1) under the First Amendment, as to the Federal Government, or (2) under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, as to the States.... In the light of history, it is apparent that the unconditional phrasing of the First Amendment was not intended to protect every utterance.... The protection given speech and press was fashioned to assure unfettered interchange of ideas for the bringing about of political and social changes desired by the people.... All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance--unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion--have the full protection of the guaranties, unless excludable because they encroach upon the limited area of more important interests; but implicit in the history of the First Amendment is the rejection of obscenity as utterly without redeeming social importance."
It also won't be the line in the future...
149 posted on
05/19/2005 12:29:36 PM PDT by
Antoninus
(Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini, Hosanna in excelsis!)
To: Antoninus
But it's the line. For those who have said or implied that there are no lines or no standards, there is a line, there is a standard. It's just one that you don't like.
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