Agnostic75
Well-Known Member
Consider the following:
The pathetic Westboro Baptist Church obviously does not understand what "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" mean.
If free speech means "anything goes," then the Westboro Baptist Church would be free to picket the homes of U.S. Supreme Court justices, and picket any place that the justices goes for social activities. In addition, extreme harrassment could be used in politics and in many other venues.
I recommend that the U.S. Supreme Court rule that each state decide for itself how to interpret free speech. That way, the people who are most affected by deplorable people like the Westboro Baptist Church will be able to interpret free speech for themselves.
Wikipedia said:"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" is one of the most famous phrases in the United States Declaration of Independence, and considered by some as part of one of the most well crafted, influential sentences in the history of the English language. These three aspects are listed among the "unalienable rights" or sovereign rights of man. It is a paraphrasing of an earlier statement by English philosopher John Locke.
The pathetic Westboro Baptist Church obviously does not understand what "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" mean.
If free speech means "anything goes," then the Westboro Baptist Church would be free to picket the homes of U.S. Supreme Court justices, and picket any place that the justices goes for social activities. In addition, extreme harrassment could be used in politics and in many other venues.
I recommend that the U.S. Supreme Court rule that each state decide for itself how to interpret free speech. That way, the people who are most affected by deplorable people like the Westboro Baptist Church will be able to interpret free speech for themselves.