One Minute Briefs (Month 1)
People vs. Ruggles – 1811
Here is today’s Truth for Patriots, with founder Tom Evans…
“Whatever strikes at the root of Christianity tends manifestly to the dissolution of civil government.”
That ruling was from Chief Justice James Kent of the New York Supreme Court in the 1811 case “People vs. Ruggles.” The defendant had been indicted for uttering – and I’ll bleep out the bad words – “Jesus Christ was a (bleep) and his mother must be a (bleep).”
Now listen closely as Chief Justice Kent describes the true meaning of free speech: “Nothing could be more offensive to the virtuous part of the community, or more injurious to the tender morals of the young, than to declare such profanity lawful…The free, equal, and undisturbed enjoyment of religious opinion … is granted and secured; but to revile… the religion professed by almost the whole community, is an abuse of that right… we are a Christian people…”
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© T. Evans 2007