Monthly Archives: May 2002

Free Speech?

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Gallery have against href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/">WorldNetDaily? Maybe
they’re jealous because WND’s web site looks so much better than
theirs. After more than a year, the Press Gallery is href="http://www.wnd.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27767">
still denying press credentials to WND. To use a sports
metaphor, they’ve moved the goalposts again.

Joseph Farah, isn’t taking this sitting down.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or
abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the
right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition
the government for a redress of grievances.”

That First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution always
seemed pretty clear to me. It says what it means and it means
what it says. There’s very little ambiguity to be found in
it.

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Review of the Law

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Here’s the Supreme Court ruling that started it all … the one that’s being ignored.

Boy Scouts of America v. Dale

Argued: April 26, 2000

Issue: Under the First Amendment, can a public organization’s rights to freedom of speech and association be superseded by a state statute that prevents discrimination based upon sexual orientation?

Summary: Dale, a volunteer assistant scoutmaster is a homosexual. He was forced to resign from the Boy Scouts of American because of his sexual orientation. He sued. The lower court held that enforcing New Jersey‘s Law Against Discrimination did not violate members of the the Boy Scouts of America’s right to freely associate with whom they pleased.

Decision: The High Court ruled that applying New Jersey’s Law Against Discrimination to the Boy Scouts would violate the Scouts’ right of expressive association. The majority opinion was written by Chief Justice William Rehnquist.

The complete decision

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Guns Save Lives!

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2nd Amendment

…Get the facts.

Women, in particular, need guns for safety. In 89.6% of violent
crimes where women are the intended victims, the offender does not
have a gun; and only 10% of rapists carry a gun. So armed women
have an advantage over their attackers.

A Justice Department study discovered that of more than 32,000
attempted rapes, 32% were actually successful. But when those
women were armed, only 3% of the attempted rapes were
successful.

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