Are those the same First Amendment that billbears doesn't believe that the Several States should recognize? By his standards, there is no reason why Texas shouldn't be able to pass a law disallowing all forms of free speech--provided they're passed by duly elected representatives.
Let's be fair to billbears. The Constitution does protect most forms of Free Speech, but the SCOTUS has ruled (unfortunately) that obscenity (insert subjective definition here) is not protected. Texas does have the Constitutional right to ban dildos, but that's not tantamount to a repeal of the First Amendment. For example, they can't ban forms of political speech, like soft money. (Oops! Well, theory and practice don't always line up, but anyway...)
Where I part company with billbears is when he maintains that all a Constitutional law needs in order to be a good law is popular support.