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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:42:12 EST
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- From: Doctor Pizz <jdt10@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
- Subject: re:re: freedom of speech
- Comments: To: Forum for the Discussion of Politics <POLITICS@ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu>
- In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:02:06 CST
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- Fred,
-
- I think everyone should be allowed equal freedom of speech. Clearly,
- if gay activists wanted to demonstrate OUTSIDE the church, they have as
- much right as the pro-life forces do to demonstrate OUTSIDE an abortion
- clinic. Once they start entering the premises of the church or clinic,
- they should be expected to follow the rules of the property owners.
- The pro-life people shouldn't enter a clinic to disrupt an abortion,
- and the gay rights folks shouldn't enter the cathedral and disrupt the
- church services. The whole point of my argument is that you seemed to
- be supporting the right of Howard Stern to have free speech, but not
- the pro-life crowd. You seemed to state that it was wrong for the
- pro-lifers to vociferously "harass" the women going to the clinic, yet
- you approve of Howard Stern harassing people in his audience. It seems
- that one must be consistent, and allow everyone full freedom of speech,
- rather than get bogged down in technicalities and cases where one group
- or another deems speech to be inappropriaate. Just tell me how you
- feel about the pro-life groups outside the abortion clinics. Clearly
- you must be consistent with your belief that it would be okay for a
- putative group to protest outside a cathedral... Besides, just as
- people can turn off Howard Stern, they can go home, avoid the aabortion
- clinic, and have the baby, or even come back aanother day to have the
- abortion. Further, in most places there are mutliple plaaces one could
- go. Finally, if a woman was desperate for an abortion and really
- believed it was right, the pro-life people shouldn't be able to chnge
- her mind, and she could then just walk right through...
-
- Doctor Pizz
-