Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high priced fund-raiser, which didn't even secure dinner for those who shelled out the $100, and the governor's birthday speech are any indication, he isn't taking the election for granted...
...argument for permissiveness toward pornography has always been "freedom of speech." But how can pictorial and literary depiction of women (and increasingly men) in degrading sexual terms be perceived as "freedom of speech"? There is no doubt that the authors of the Bill of Rights did not intend the First Amendment's speech protection to extend to pornography, and for a very simple reason: Pornography adds nothing to a healthy diversity of political, cultural, and social life in the United States, which is the core intent of the First Amendment. And nothing since the 18th century, including the great post...
...there's no way to escape a simple conclusion: Advocates of "free speech" protection for pornography have been reduced to championing an abstract principle of total freedom in opposition to a perfectly justified and healthy outcry against degradation of individuals and pollution of our society...
...implicates in discriminatory practices anyone who engages in a wide variety of activities, including "trafficking" ("to produce, sell, exhibit, or distribute") and "forcing pornography on a person." What this means is that someone who chooses to interpret certain words or images put forward in books, magazines, pictures, or speech as "the graphic sexually explicit subordination of women..." could sue anyone who creates, presents, publishes or sells the material. At this time of increasing vigilantism, any of us who in our teaching or in informal discussions or conversations refer to matters of sex or sexuality, be it in respect...
Garland Bunting has been on the circuit recently plugging the book for Wilkinson and he presents an absolutely intriguing figure. His speech is priceless, but the printed word can't do justice to the oral history qualities of his "talking trash," for example shocking a waitress by ordering...