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Free Speech and the American Way Second in a Six-Part Series by Larry Greenfield zimmytws/Getty Images THE ENGLISH TRADITION If the Ark of the Covenant that is, our modern religious views of speech commands morality in our speech and deference to religious authority and the sovereignty of God, the arc of western legal tradition defends our natural right to speak our mind as sovereign individuals. An important early advocate for the right of publishers to print ideas without prepublication censorship was English poet and politician John Milton. In 1644, before he went blind and later wrote his most famous poems (e.g. “Paradise Lost”) Milton anonymously wrote a pamphlet entitled “Areopagitica” (a reference to the ancient Greek hill on which orators freely debated). ....
he was going to do this before the convention. it became part of the national conversation throughout the week and thought this was the right time to step up and do it. but ben, i still have questions. we know, everybody has been talking about this vote in north carolina which happened on tuesday. why didn t the president come out before that vote and sort of you know, give america, give north carolina voters a reason to not vote in support of amendment one and to really perhaps hand a brass ring to the gay rights community in north carolina? he s taken a stand against those sorts of divisive and discriminatory measures in states dating back to the 2007-08 race when he opposed prop 8. and these other discriminatory measures which could roll back equal rights for gays and lesbians. the campaign was on the record on that fronts, we had spoken out. many of our supporters got involved in trying to defeat that measure. and my last on the timing. you say or the presiden ....
discriminatory measures in states dating back to the 2007-08 race when he opposed prop 8. and these other discriminatory measures which could roll back equal rights for gays and lesbians. the campaign was on the record on that fronts, we had spoken out. many of our supporters got involved in trying to defeat that measure. and my last on the timing. you say or the president and the white house messaging has said that the president was going to make this announcement at the democratic national convention later this summer. when we talk about the optics of this a lot of folks said that this was political calculation. don t you seem it would have been more transparently political if he made this announcement at the convention? you know, this has been a long trajectory for the president. it s a long trajectory for the vice president. it s a long trajectory for the country which has evolved on this issue over the past couple of decades. the president has been consistent a ....