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9 posts tagged "First Amendment"

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Northwestern professor discusses LGBTQ rights, religious liberty

Zixu Wang | Friday, November 8, 2019

Andrew Koppelman, a professor of law and political science at Northwestern University, gave a talk dissecting the debate surrounding the conflict between gay rights and religious liberty in a lecture Thursday in Jenkins-Nanovic Halls. The lecture was sponsored by the Constitutional Studies Program and the Program on Church, State and Society at the Notre Dame

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Observer Editorial: An ode to the First Amendment

Observer Editorial Board | Friday, September 27, 2019

In January, the Newseum tweeted that its creator, the Freedom Forum, had sold its building to Johns Hopkins University and the museum would be closing at the end of 2019. The Newseum, a monument to the First Amendment, opened its doors on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., in 2008. On the building’s facade, a stone

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Fuel for the porn filter fire

Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, November 7, 2018

“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. As the student who re-started the porn filtering conversation in the fall of 2016, I write in response to the author of the wittily-titled op-ed on the subject, “Give me Pornhub or give me death,” to

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Creationists and crayfish

Raymond Ramirez | Tuesday, March 6, 2018

The First Amendment to the Constitution opens with a dual pledge of religious liberty: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”  The first part of this provision has come to be known as the Establishment Clause. While the “free exercise” of religion promised in the rest

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What it means to be free

Catherine Baker | Monday, December 7, 2015

What is free speech? This question has dogged philosophers for centuries. We all know the First Amendment protects this right: “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,

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The importance of free speech

Neil Joseph | Tuesday, December 1, 2015

I’m thankful that Notre Dame hasn’t been in the news this past month. We’ve seen plenty of our peer institutions in the news for the wrong reasons, and I’m glad we haven’t followed. Yale, Mizzou and scores of other universities have been in national news because of student unrest due to racial issues. Why haven’t

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The erosion of free speech on campus

Kate Hardiman | Monday, November 16, 2015

Free speech is under assault at our nation’s universities. Rather than entertaining opposing ideas in order to debate them, students attack “offensive” statements and the people who make them. Last week, for example, students at Yale protested and disrupted a pro-free speech event hosted by the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program. According to an article penned by

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The beauty of free speech

Louis Bertolotti | Wednesday, October 28, 2015

In response to my last column, associate professor of the romance languages and literatures department, Ben Heller, wrote a Letter to the Editor chiding The Observer for “unconscionably” publishing the piece. I, however, believe that it is “unconscionable” that he would even suggest this and find it insulting to our beautiful democracy which he claims to

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Controversy aside, Coulter deserves to be heard

Letter to the Editor | Sunday, February 23, 2014

“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.” So said William F. Buckley, Jr., the founder of “National Review” and one of the fathers of modern American conservatism. In “The left’s intolerant ‘tolerance’” on Tuesday, Mark Gianfalla rightly calls

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