The Abstinence Clearinghouse Blog

The First Amendment gives us freedom of speech and protects our right to express ourselves freely. Unfortunately there are those who have perverted this freedom to meet their own self-serving needs and the sexual appetites of the consumers. For more than forty years, however, the Supreme Court has held that obscenity is “outside the protection intended for speech and press at the time during which the First Amendment was written” (Roth v. U.S., 354 U.S. 476). Amendment does not protect slander, false advertising, perjury, child pornography or obscenity.