LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF THE TWIN TIERS...BY AN EIGHT TO ONE VOTE...THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES RECENTLY RULED THAT A LUNATIC FRINGE RELIGIOUS GROUP HAS THE RIGHT TO SHOW UP AT THE FUNERALS OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS AND SAY THAT THEIR DEATHS ARE GOD'S WAY OF PUNISHING AMERICA FOR TOLERATING HOMOSEXUALITY.
WRITING FOR THE MAJORITY... CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS SAID THAT THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION PROTECTS EVEN THOSE WHO ARTICULATE HATEFUL REMARKS THAT HURT OTHERS. TO DO OTHERWISE...ROBERTS REASONED...RAN THE RISK OF STIFLING PUBLIC DEBATE. I SAY HURRAH FOR THE SUPREME COURT. YOU SEE THE FIRST AMENDMENT IS THE AMENDMENT THAT PROTECTS THE REST OF THE CONSTITUTION BY ALLOWING FOR PUBLIC DIALOGUE AND DEBATE. THUS, THE FIRST AMENDMENT IS THE CORNERSTONE OF OUR REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY. BY PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF RELIGIOUS LUNATICS...THE SUPREME COURT PROTECTS THE RIGHTS OF ALL OF US.
WITH COMMENTARY...I'M DR. STEPHEN COLEMAN...THAT'S MY OPINION...WHAT'S YOURS?
