Here's a warning that the right-wing could go after the 1st Amendment next, using "originalism" to wipe out speech freedoms. Watch out: prosecution for blasphemy could follow. Important caution, so a gift link: Let’s Not Bring Back Jail for Swearing www.nytimes.com/2024/10/10/o...

Opinion | Let’s Not Bring Back Jail for Swearing

The latest threat to our right to speak freely comes all the way from the 1700s.

Jesus Christ! The performative assholery of the gop is bullshit.

If we're going to talk about First Amendment originalism, we need to have a conversation about Mary Dyer (first religious martyr executed in the Massachusetts colony). It's not just non-Christians at risk. Historically, they often start with rival Christian sects.