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> Really? You think conservatism hinges on pornography and racism?

I can see that you, a distinctly NOT conservative individual, need an education.

The idea of free speech, enshrined in the First Amendment, is the legacy of the Enlightenment. This idea was best encapsulated by Voltaire in the quote “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

An American conservative will defend to the death the right of individuals to say things he does not approve of, and indeed we have graveyards filled with individuals who have done just that.

Now that we know you are not conservative, I have to wonder if you are also not American.

Still waiting on that porn you think is conservative to be posted here at FR. You’re mighty brave with insults. Where are you with posting porn? Chicken?

This idea was best encapsulated by Voltaire in the quote “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

Voltaire was antiChristian and antisemitic.

In a letter to Frederick II, King of Prussia, dated 5 January 1767, he wrote about Christianity: La nôtre [religion] est sans contredit la plus ridicule, la plus absurde, et la plus sanguinaire qui ait jamais infecté le monde.[127] "Our [religion] is assuredly the most ridiculous, the most absurd and the most bloody religion which has ever infected this world. Your Majesty will do the human race an eternal service by extirpating this infamous superstition, I do not say among the rabble, who are not worthy of being enlightened and who are apt for every yoke; I say among honest people, among men who think, among those who wish to think. … My one regret in dying is that I cannot aid you in this noble enterprise, the finest and most respectable which the human mind can point out."[128][129]

According to Orthodox rabbi Joseph Telushkin, the most significant Enlightenment hostility against Judaism was found in Voltaire;[140] thirty of the 118 articles in his Dictionnaire philosophique dealt with Jews and described them in consistently negative ways.[141][142] For example, in Voltaire's A Philosophical Dictionary, he wrote of Jews: "In short, we find in them only an ignorant and barbarous people, who have long united the most sordid avarice with the most detestable superstition and the most invincible hatred for every people by whom they are tolerated and enriched."[143]