
What’s More Obscene, Sex or Censorship?

“Free speech: We’ve had it so long, we take it for granted. People don’t realize it can be lost. It doesn’t happen all at once; it happens magazine by magazine and movie by movie.” —Larry Flynt
The courts have ruled repeatedly that pornography and obscenity are not synonymous. Yet a new bill introduced by Senator Mike Lee of Utah and Illinois Representative Mary Miller proposes to rewrite the definition of obscenity to make it so incredibly vague and subjective that it will allow the government to dictate what you can or cannot view in the privacy of your own home and criminalize material it deems offensive.
