Thursday, April 01, 2004

Focus on Your Own Family
You've got to hand it to religious conservatives: they think ahead and plan for unsavory contingencies.

"A bill that would increase fines for broadcast indecency from $17,000 to $500,000 dollars has large broadcasting groups like Infinity, promoters of the Howard Stern program, concerned.

But the legislation, passed this month by the House and now in the Senate, also worries conservatives like Steve Lilienthal of the Free Congress Foundation Center for Privacy and Technology.

'It could potentially be a disserving precedent in that a change of administration or personnel at the FCC could very well take that action and apply . . . it against speech that conservatives view to be perfectly normal and acceptable political discourse,' Lilienthal said.

But Pat Trueman, who works with the Family Research Council, thinks those fears are unfounded.

'Indecency is prohibited by federal statute,' he explained, 'so if Hillary Clinton does become president, the FCC can't just begin outlawing hate speech.'"
You see, that's how it works though; we may have to let Howard Stern off the hook to preserve our own rights to hate Hillary Clinton at a later date. This is America after all. The Family Research Council...protecting hate speech since 1988.

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