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Direct from Indivisible: Correspondents Dinner Action
TAKE ACTION: Call the Media (Contact info below) The 2017 White House Correspondents Association dinner is this Saturday, April 29. The group was founded in 1914 in order to preserve first amendment rights of a free press when it was rumored that President Woodrow Wilson was going to hand pick journalists he would permit to […]
Continue readingTaxes for religious schools not right | Letters to the Editor | azdailysun.com
Our Founding Fathers separated church and state for a reason. They had witnessed “divinely inspired” monarchs brutally suppress new ideas and religious clerics torture and execute men of science. Those Source: Taxes for religious schools not right | Letters to the Editor | azdailysun.com
Continue readingViolence Not Protected by First Amendment
The discussion of different beliefs and political philosophies should be encouraged in a free society, and especially at a university campus. But making threats of violence against university professors is reprehensible and not protected speech. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes opined “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire […]
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