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Explaining the First Amendment to Sarah Palin (Original Post)
rdubwiley
Dec 2013
OP
Here is the First Amendment, so you can read it for yourself. Welcome to DU, may you read and learn.
uppityperson
Dec 2013
#3
JustinSouth
(1 post)1. Agreed
Agreed. Private companies, absent a contract, can discipline their employee's how they see fit.
If a left leaning TV star says Christian are bigoted and offensive, network wouldn't be violating their freedom of speech to fire them. Right?
arcane1
(38,613 posts)2. According to the constitution, it would not.
Nobody has a "right" to be on tv.
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)4. +1. Free speech doesn't imply that others have to listen to you. n/t
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)5. Amen. That is why we have a clicker!!
uppityperson
(115,679 posts)3. Here is the First Amendment, so you can read it for yourself. Welcome to DU, may you read and learn.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/first_amendment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
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.
TBF
(32,090 posts)6. And if someone from the Dixie Chicks said something you found
offensive you would stick up for her, right?