I am appalled.
As I was reading the news, I read an article on Yahoo entitled, "Supreme Court upholds TV profanity crackdown". I thought that was great and went to read a postive article. It spoke about how the Justices voted 5-4 in favor of restricting profanity used on TV and I thought, "Good."
I realized they'd have the other side's opinion and they spoke of their "constitutional free-speech rights."
It was, however, the very last sentence that is so appalling. It said,
"Writers, artists and directors on the front lines of the First Amendment face continuing pressure to err on the side of the blandness." (Andrew Jay Schwartzman, Media Access Project)
I'm not even going to get into what the authors of the First Amendment were talking about when they put in free speech; that's a topic for another day.
However, are they stating that to not use profanity is to be bland?
How utterly ridiculous!
Gordon B. Hinckley said,
"Those who routinely take the name of God in vain and resort to filthy, crude language only advertise the poverty of their vocabularies, a glaring paucity in their powers of expression, and a flaw in their moral makeup. Civility invites the ability to speak, to converse, to communicate effectively."
Need more be said? I should hope not. It seems rather obvious to me.
2 comments:
I like that quote. So there are what, a half a dozen swear words? And how many thousands or even millions of words in the English language? They can't seem to pick from all the rest? Well put Lori, and President Hinckley. Well put.
Yes, very well put indeed.
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