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Defending Blasphemy

The Center for Inquiry has just announced a new campaign to help defend free speech–particularly speech critical of religion–from suppression. The Campaign for Free Expression includes a website designed as a forum to report and monitor censorship. The site also publishes the kind of religious (and political) criticism likely to find itself censored.

http://www.centerforinquiry.net/newsroom/center_for_inquiry_launches_campaign_for_free_expression/

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Let there be hecklers

It’s difficult to watch hecklers, even when you agree with them. On a superficial level they are rude. By interrupting formal speeches they are preventing the officially designated speaker from delivering his or her message.
But what alternatives do we have when modern-day powerful politicians carefully exclude people who disagree with the speaker? Here’s the modern [...]