It always amzes me how anyone can construe the guarantee of the right to speak freely about religion and politics as a right to put filth and smut in "arts?". I guess it's because we have become a sociopathic,phycopathic society.

What the anti-smut, rightwingers seem to forget is that this is a CAPITALIST society. Money talks and ideology walks. Like illegal drugs, there is a huge market for smut because, WE AMERICANS LOVE OUR SMUT!!! Dish/Direct TV and other broadcasters wouldn't be offering smut to their customers if it wasn't a zillion-dollar-a-year industry. I would venture to guess that more money was spent on adult entertainment than Bibles last year. Biblical advice "If thine nipple offend thee, cut if off."

Made to choose between the two, I'd rather my kids saw bare breasts on TV instead of real or fictional portrayls of war and violence. Much of what purse-lipped conservatives call "smut," is what most of humanity calls simple nudity or appreciates as natural sexuality. Meanwhile E/R and Grey's Anatomy show nauseatingly realistic injury, and '24' features murder and torture, and that's considered acceptable by the self-appointed arbiters of righteousness.

When are we as a culture going to stop cowering with fear before every windbag who threatens us with their version of God, or shames us with their version of righteousness?

Well, well we have here in under the guise of 'Ranselar VanDerpoel' someone who without at any time reading the Constitution or being aware of what it says trying to make a 'constitutional' argument, and [deleted by moderator]. I challenge him or anyone esle to show the restriction on free speech to only the subjects he lists and no others. It really peeves me when silly folks like him make things up then fling it at the walls in the hope that others [deleted by moderator] go off and keep the mis-information flowing.

Tony, you might take the time to read it and while your at it, read some of the writings that the framers wrote at the time leading up to it. They were only conserned with important things, like controlling religion and politics, they didn't have TV, you know!