Monday, June 25, 2007

More Free Speech at Risk

In a post on June 11, 2007, titled Free Speech at Risk, I noted an up coming Supreme Court case, Good News Employee Association vs. Hicks, wherein the court will supposedly rule on individuals’ freedom to say words and phrases such as “family values,” “natural family,” and “marriage.” This case originates out of the Socialist Republic of California.

On the other side of the country, in the up and coming Socialist Republic of New York, the following words and phrases, dealing with real estate marketing, are considered verboten.  “Family friendly,” “nanny’s room,” “near churches,” and “bacherlor pad,” among others.

Though the New York examples, above, are not, at this time anyway, going to be ruled on by the Supreme Court, none-the-less these two instances of repressing speech are closely related.

This constant limiting of speech via the threat of lawsuits due to hurt feelings, political correctness, or what have you, are simply a slow, strangulating death of freedom.

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Posted by John Venlet on 06/25 at 04:56 AM
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