You fail to understand the problem at hand. Try this:
From your post:
"harm, deprive, and impede
How does a sermon delivered in church do any of these things to anyone?"
Again, with a slight change:
harm, deprive, and impede
How does a sermon delivered in a mosque do any of these things to anyone?
It's called inciting people to harmful actions.
As to bringing libel and slander laws into the discussion, that was done to point out that free speech has limits.
Why did you choose JS Mill to quote?
Partly because of this:
"The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle.
-- John Stuart Mill, The Spirit Of The Age, quoted from Laird Wilcox, ed., "The Degeneration of Belief""
As to the Washington quote it embodies all that is repugnant to a free people.
"...that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government...."
The D. of I. says otherwise. |
