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From: za56@sdcc3.ucsd.EDU (Brian McNeill)
Newsgroups: net.religion,talk.religion
Subject: Re: Banning books, religion etc...
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Date: Sat, 6-Sep-86 12:03:00 EDT
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Summary: First amendment still applies

In article <136@heurikon.UUCP> mikem@heurikon.UUCP (mikem) writes:
>
>[Deleted my discussion on book banning]
>
>The first ammendment does not say that you have the right to read whatever
>you want.  It says that you have the right to write whatever you
>want.  (You can get in trouble if you libel someone, however).
>In the first case someone would have to be coerced into writing
>for you if what you wanted to read hadn't been written.  This would
>be violating their rights.
>

Fine.  But banning books infringes upon their first amendment
rights, therefore, their rights are being violated if I cannot
read/see their material.  This is, to me, a trivial distinction,
as rights ARE rights, regardless of whose they are.

>This is a very important distinction.
>

Not really.  It infringes on SOMEBODY's rights, and therefore shoul
not be allowed to come to pass (I hope these Funnymentalists get
nailed in Tenessee, but I suspect they won't, oh well)

>(By "write" I mean speech, print, movies, etc.)
>
>                                    Michael W. Mayer

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