Frederick wrote: What is the problem is not the law itself, but the misuse of the law. Free Speech doesn't mean irresponsible speech, or even deliberately provocative speech! But when we call it a "blasphemy law", then that casts a different light on it. FN
Response: I'm afraid I disagree with you. Free speech means exactly that. What is provocative to some maybe a statement of fact to others. By your standards, Copernicus should have hidden his telescope underneath his bed and fought with all the demons of science plaguing his mind. I don't want to live in a world like that. I want to live in a world of robust scientific, historic, literary and artistic inquiry. And I am very, very surprised that you can't see that. Best, selma
