Rattle wrote: One minor correction, which I do think is significant. US law does not see speech like obscenity as "immoral speech", it sees it as "worthless speech". There is a difference.
Thats a good point, but this is one area where I don't "buy" U.S. law. We get around the first amendment by saying that things which violate "contemporary community standards" (i.e. the Public Morality) are "worthless" and so they aren't protected. The value of something is in the eye of the beholder and not the "community standard." I think its a bad argument. If obsenities were really "worthless" our standards about them wouldn't change. The Iraqi Constitution allows directly what we allow by tortuous reasoning. RE: Text of the draft Iraqi Constitution |