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Hate Speech vs. Hate Art If
James Madison were alive now he would defend fewer rights for “hate
art” than for “hate speech” – the reverse of modern political
correctness. Both in America and in Russia, secularists are eager to
flaunt anti-Christian images. America needs to recover its
original understanding of liberty – and Russia needs to recover its
civilization.
Dear
Friends,
Imagine
a museum facing a new policy. A curator of anti-religious paintings
would be informed that he is entirely free to display any captions –
that is, there would be no restrictions on his words. In contrast, the
public display of blasphemous or racist non-verbal images would face
the possibility of a lawsuit. Actually this distinction is not new.
America’s First Amendment specifically denied to Congress any power of
“abridging the freedom of speech,” but it made no mention of the term
“art.”
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