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Westboro Baptist Church Will Picket Betty Ford's Funeral

Amory Gritta — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:52:46 +0000

The Westboro Baptist Church is at it again.

The fundamentalist and anti-gay group has announced it will picket the funeral of former first lady Betty Ford, who died last week, because she got divorced before marrying the man who would later become President Gerald Ford. This, the group says, made her an adulterer who "loved to sit with tawdry reporters and blather about sex."

Play On! Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on Video Game Sales to Minors

Shauna Wright — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:00:15 +0000

In a 7-2 vote, the US Supreme Court ruled Monday that it’s unconstitutional to ban kids from buying or renting violent video games, saying that despite fears the games may prompt children to emulate what’s seen in them, the government has no right to “restrict the ideas to which may be exposed.”

The decision in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association upholds that of the 9th Circuit federal appeals court, which previously tossed out a California ban on the sale or rental of such games to minors.

Watching Internet Porn at NYC Libraries Is Legal, Thanks to First Amendment

Amory Gritta — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:00:02 +0000

The ongoing debate over free speech just got a whole lot weirder.

According to the NY Post, library officials in New York claim that adults who want to browse Internet porn at their local branches are actually free to do so. In fact, it's protected under a person's First Amendment rights -- assuming, of course, that the adult content is legal.

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