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If you don't like something, don't listen/watch it, and keep your children away from it.
Overseer. What about all the nearly pornographic billboards? How do you keep them from that? The more ways I find to protect my children the more ways others find to corrupt them. Billboards, bumper stickers, tee shirts, TV, radio, video games, and email to name a few.
There are two problems with ultimate free speech. The first is directly targeting children with subject matter not appropriate for children, this should be a crime. The other is with the "in your face" free speechers who think that just because they have the right to say something that everyone else including children has to listen and see, or that they should be forced into hearing and seeing it. You have a right to say it, but I should also have the right for my children not be subjected to your free speech profanities. In today’s world your solution of "keep your children away from it" means locking them up incommunicado and it shouldn't be that way.

There should be some decency in this country. But we have become instead of a united people a nation of individuals who care for only me, me, me. Do not be so zealous or so callous in exercising your rights that you hurt someone along the way. Freedom of speech should be a good thing not an abuse of others.

I do my best to watch my language around kids.

Unfortunatly, there is a case of two evils. You got the inyerfacers that use the gay lobby tactics, and you got the govt thugs.

Now, at least the in yer facers can't put a gun to my head with the force of law over speech content. The govt thugs can.

Also, what is indecent? Who decides it? I certainly don't want Janet Reno or someone like that deciding. AOL calls guns porn. Another internet filter censores pro-gun sites too.

There's always the law of unintended consequences.

It's real simple, people. It's called "teach your children." I keep hearing conservatives like Bill Bennett and others bemoan the destruction of the family, etc., as if it is society's responsibility to protect every family from everything they find offensive or distasteful. The First Amendment says "Congress shall make no law..." not "expect for speech that offends anybody."

Do either of you take your kids to church? Make sure they hear the sermons and get religious education. Take them on your knee and teach them your values.

Al_c, if you don't like what's on TV, write to the producers. Start a drive. Better than that, get a TV with blockout capability. Or Satellite TV. Or get a Nielsen book and zap the shows you don't like.

It's the same reason why I loathe all the hullaballoo over the sodomy ruling. How does it affect me and my family what someone else decides to do with their sexual life.

Is it any wonder why social conservatives get so much play in the media by comedians and pundits?