{"id":1724243,"date":"2022-11-04T07:02:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T11:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1724243"},"modified":"2022-11-04T07:03:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T11:03:06","slug":"no-free-speech-doesnt-mean-porn-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-free-speech-doesnt-mean-porn-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Free Speech Doesn\u2019t Mean Porn In Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fno-free-speech-doesnt-mean-porn-in-schools%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1724243&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>PEN America, an international advocacy group for free expression, recently published an <a href=\"https:\/\/pen.org\/report\/banned-usa-growing-movement-to-censor-books-in-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">updated<\/a> report about \u201cbook banning\u201d in America. The group <a href=\"https:\/\/pen.org\/banned-in-the-usa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claims<\/a> that school districts choosing not to carry particular books in their libraries \u201cthreaten[s] free expression and students\u2019 first amendment rights.\u201d The most common books that school districts have restricted student access to include \u201cGender Queer,\u201d \u201cAll Boys Aren\u2019t Blue,\u201d and \u201cOut of Darkness.\u201d These books have been criticized as pornographic and promoting LGBT content. For example, \u201cAll Boys Aren\u2019t Blue,\u201d a book aimed at adolescents, contains graphic descriptions of male homosexual sex.<\/p>\n<p>PEN America argues that the removal of such books from school libraries \u201cimpede[s] free expression rights\u201d and that such efforts do not \u201cuphold free speech rights.\u201d For PEN America, free expression rights \u201cmust be the bedrock of public schools in an open, inclusive, and democratic society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Such an understanding of free speech and free expression is wrong. Any sort of \u201cfree speech absolutism\u201d that recognizes no limits is not the ideal for those concerned about ordered liberty. Men and women who care about their communities and their nation ought not to desire a public square that is laissez faire in its approach to speech. Just as true liberty is not license but liberty to do what is good, free speech is not freedom to degrade public morals. Speech expresses morals, and some morals \u2014 some ways of life \u2014 are beyond the pale for societies that are oriented to what is good and right and true.<\/p>\n<p> Speech-Denying Nature Undermines the Nation <\/p>\n<p>The American nation was built upon a conception of the world that recognized \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/founding-docs\/declaration-transcript\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the laws of Nature and Nature\u2019s God.<\/a>\u201d There was an understanding by our nation\u2019s founders that there are moral laws built into the fabric of the world that human beings ought to obey. Unfortunately, America in the modern day has lost any shared consensus about those laws of nature, or even whether there are moral laws at all. The sexual revolution has taken its toll on the public\u2019s conception of morality. Recovering public morals will include a renewed recognition of the basic principles of the moral laws found in nature. The nature observable to the American founders is the same nature we can see today. Speech that denies nature itself \u2014 such as speech promoting sexual relations contrary to nature \u2014 undermines the very foundation upon which American society rests.<\/p>\n<p>If a nation is to preserve itself, it must be willing to defend its moral foundation. Books that promote degenerate behavior, especially when they are targeted at children, ought not to be tolerated. For America, \u201cfree expression\u201d that grossly violates \u201cthe laws of Nature and Nature\u2019s God\u201d acts like a jackhammer to America\u2019s moral foundation, leaving it more like sand than rock, ready for the rising waters of late modernity to seep in and threaten destruction.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of limiting expression in order to promote the moral foundations of society stretches from Plato to the American founders (and beyond). In discussing what<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free speech is not freedom to degrade public morals and destroy the order necessary for liberty. 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