Bong Hits 4 Jesus
Posted by Moonage on 30 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: Comments from the Host, The Legal Process
Things have changed in the US in a big way during my adult lifetime. And, it’s all the media’s fault. I have been a Republican my entire life. It wasn’t really a choice when I was young, but it has been for about 20 years. For about 100 years, there was a core seperation in what was Republican and what was Democrat. The difference was very simple. Republicans believed in lower taxes and smaller government intrusion, Democrats believed in social welfare ( not a slam, just a fact ). The two ideologies were very clearly separated. The Reagan revolution changed the Republican Party in that it had lost its identity during the Vietnam conflict and the Nixon resignation left it completely leaderless. Reagan did several great things as president. Primarily, he restored the two party system to some degree. He did this by attaching a moral code to what had otherwise been purely economic philosophies. This attracted certain very vocal elements to the Republican Party. This was a good thing IMO because the Democrats had grown comfortable in the fact the Republicans could not compete nationally. However, it has led to issues within the Republican Party that have annoyed me for some time. When debating issues, the “other side” always makes the assumption that because I am Republican, I am a Neo-Con. The two are not pre-requisite of each other. I am a person that believes in smaller government and lower taxes. That doesn’t mean I am for or against abortion or any other social issue. Period. Every now and then an issue comes along that I think allows me the perfect example to illustrate these conflicts.
No matter how much I have grown to hate drugs, the kid did have the right to display to the world how stupid he is. He did not do it on school property, so there is no issue here at all. When Deborah Morse took down his sign, she violated his most basic Constitutional Right, the right to declare to the world how stupid he is. This doesn’t need to go any further in court. It’s that clear.
And, the fact the kid insulted Jesus, ergo Christians worldwide, in his declaration of stupidity, is totally irrelevant. An appeals court has protected his right to publicly declare his stupidity, that’s as far as it needs to go. That should be the end of government involvement in this issue.
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on 25 Jun 2007 at 3:08 pm 1.Moonage
said …
Well, the Supreme Court disagreed with me:
http://volokh.com/posts/1182789151.shtml
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2007/06/mixed_day_for_speech_at_the_supreme_court/
They decided school age children’s freedom of speech is limited. The more I think about it, the more I think I agree with them on this one. Although the kid did have the right to promote his stupidity to the world, he did not have the right to encourage illegal activities.
Either way, he got his message across, he’s just stupid.