In reality, however, we are only as free to speak as a government official may allow.
Free speech zones, bubble zones, trespass zones, anti-bullying legislation, zero tolerance policies, hate crime laws and a host of other legalistic maladies dreamed up by politicians and prosecutors have conspired to corrode our core freedoms.
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If citizens cannot stand out in the open on a public sidewalk and voice their disapproval of their government, its representatives and its policies, without fearing prosecution, then the First Amendment with all its robust protections for free speech, assembly and the right to petition one’s government for a redress of grievances is little more than window-dressing on a store window: pretty to look at but serving little real purpose.
Do you reckon freedom of speech could also benefit from a bridling of the tongue?
” Indeed, had Christ merely complied with the Roman police state, there would have been no crucifixion and no Christian religion.”
Is that what we think?
Is that the message we received?
i thought Christ did comply with the Roman police state?
He came here to this earth for a purpose, nothing could have changed this. Nothing.