Is free speech important to you? Trump keeps threatening to revoke broadcast licenses for people who say things he doesn't like.
That doesn't seem very pro-free speech.
Where is the quote?
AI Overview
While the issuance of a broadcast license itself doesn't directly violate free speech, the conditions attached to that license can be scrutinized under First Amendment principles. The government, through the
Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has some authority to regulate broadcast content, but this power is limited by the
First Amendment's protection of free speech. The government can't censor broadcasters or engage in viewpoint discrimination.
Free speech certainly isn't very important to anyone who votes Democrat:
The Constituion is America.
The Democrats dispute it.
The contemporary Right is a supporter of religion, while the left abjors both the Constitution and religion.
What possible justification could there be for the Democrats silencing those who speak out against evil?????
Unless evil is what the Democrats represent.
Democrats put an anti-free speech advocate on the Supreme Court, and passed a law forbidding free speech:
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Under Democrat/Liberal LBJ, the law was passed that deprived pastors 2
of their right of free speech.
What possible compelling government interest could this represent????
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The 1954 federal Johnson Amendment prohibits a pastor from talking about candidates from the pulpit in light of Scripture. Thus, based on what a pastor says about an election from the pulpit, the tax code allows the government to tax a church. Consider that in light of the Internal Revenue Service's increasingly vague regulations, and you have a recipe for the censorship of religion. The IRS, through those vague regulations, reserves for itself tremendous discretion and power to decide which churches to punish for violations of the Johnson Amendment and which not to punish.”
Why don't churches pay taxes?
Any reading of the first amendment will prove this to be unconstitutional.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The contrast is startlingly clear: the Right supports both religion and the Constitution.
"My Administration is also defending religious liberty, and that includes the Constitutional right to pray in public schools. In America, we do not punish prayer. We do not tear down crosses. We do not ban symbols of faith. We do not muzzle preachers and pastors. In America, we celebrate faith. We cherish religion. We lift our voices in prayer, and we raise our sights to the Glory of God!"
Trump, SOTU 2020