{"id":7817,"date":"2012-09-14T01:09:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T01:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=7817"},"modified":"2012-09-14T01:09:42","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T01:09:42","slug":"first-amendment-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/first-amendment-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"First Amendment Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/316822\/first-amendment-watch-andrew-stuttaford\">Cross-posted in the Corner:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/opinion\/story\/2012-09-12\/Sam-Bacile-Anthea-Butler\/57769732\/1\">Writing in USA Today<\/a>, Anthea Butler, an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania, reveals that she hasn\u2019t quite got to grips with this whole First Amendment thing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[W] hy did I tweet that Bacile should be in jail? The \u201cfree speech\u201d in Bacile\u2019s film is not about expressing a personal opinion about Islam. It denigrates the religion by depicting the faith\u2019s founder in several ludicrous and historically inaccurate scenes to incite and inflame viewers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Completely wrong. The film is ludicrous, quite remarkably so, but if it does one thing it makes Bacile\u2019s personal opinion of Islam all too obvious.<\/p>\n<p>And then there\u2019s this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While the First Amendment right to free expression is important, it is also important to remember that other countries and cultures do not have to understand or respect our right.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The heckler\u2019s veto. Endorsed.<\/p>\n<p>Good to know that ideas of American freedom are alive and well at the University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted in the Corner: Writing in USA Today, Anthea Butler, an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania, reveals that she hasn\u2019t quite got to grips with this whole First Amendment thing: [W] hy did I tweet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/first-amendment-watch\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[711],"tags":[51,760],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7818,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7817\/revisions\/7818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}