The Founding Fathers Gave The Free Press

I Do Not Believe That It Can Be Too Often Repeated That The Freedoms Of Speech, Press, Petition And Assembly Guaranteed By The First Amendment Must Be Accorded To The Ideas We Hate Or Sooner Or Later They Will Be Denied To The Ideas We Cherish. The First Banning Of An Association Because It Advocates Hated Ideas - Whether That Association Be Called A Political Party Or Not - Marks A Fateful Moment In The History Of A Free Country.

The History Of Governmentally Established Religion, Both In England And In This Country, Showed That Whenever Government Had Allied Itself With One Particular Form Of Religion, The Inevitable Result Had Been That It Had Incurred The Hatred, Disrespect And Even Contempt Of Those Who Held Contrary Beliefs.

That Amendment Requires The State To Be A Neutral In Its Relations With Groups Of Religious Believers And Nonbelievers; It Does Not Require The State To Be Their Adversary. State Power Is No More To Be Used So As To Handicap Religions Than It Is To Favor Them.

Sex Is A Fact Of Life...and While It May Lead To Abuses...no Words Need Be Spoken...for People To Know That The Subject Is One Pleasantly Interwoven In All Human Activities And Involves The Very Substance Of Creation Itself.

The First Ten Amendments Were Proposed And Adopted Largely Because Of Fear That Government Might Unduly Interfere With Prized Individual Liberties. The People Wanted And Demanded A Bill Of Rights Written Into Their Constitution. The Amendments Embodying The Bill Of Rights Were Intended To Curb All Branches Of The Federal Government In The Fields Touched By The Amendments-legislative, Executive, And Judicial.