Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site duke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxj!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!mcnc!duke!crm From: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin) Newsgroups: net.books,net.legal,net.women Subject: Re: Pornography doesn't degrade anybody Message-ID: <5249@duke.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 11:32:26 EST Article-I.D.: duke.5249 Posted: Mon Jan 14 11:32:26 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jan-85 21:27:07 EST References: <4699@tektronix.UUCP> <2758@ncsu.UUCP>, <2193@nsc.UUCP> Organization: Duke University Lines: 23 Xref: watmath net.books:1222 net.legal:1312 net.women:4096 It may be that the "constitution isn't holy writ" (or even wholly written) but the protection of the first amendment is one that was very early established as a basic protection in which the Founding Fathers (most of them, at least) believed very strongly. read for example some of the stuff that Thomas Jefferson had to say about the Alien and Sedition Acts. I can't recall an exact quote, but he basically said something to the effect of an unconscionable attack on the rights of a free people. As far as the remark about the Founding Fathers, them's fighting words -- put'em up! (writer does quick but poor imitation of punchdrunk fighter from old movie). If you think the FF had no "feminist sensibilities", read up on them. In fact, as far as holding slaves, there were some pretty strong attempts to eliminate that too, which were thwarted in an early play of the "if we can't keep slaves we won't play" ploy repeated 4*20+7 years later. -- Opinions stated here are my own and are unrelated. Charlie Martin (...mcnc!duke!crm)