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"[Brown] said he hopes the [Christian Coaliton] under Combs sticks to its mission of recruiting candidates who are heavily focused on family values."-- The Post and Courier, Dec. 6, 2001.

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Moralist Brown tries for constitutional art ban
In collusion with Christian Coalition to topple First Amendment

JULY 28, 2002 -- Just when you think you've heard everything, along comes Rep. Henry Brown, self-appointed vanguard of morality.

The Charleston City Paper this week reported Brown is pushing a constitutional amendment that would "prevent the U.S. Constitution and the constitutions of the 50 states from protecting any attempts to create real-life simulations “by any technological means” of children having sex."

Seems that Brown, like his dim-witted mentor George Bush, is upset about a Supreme Court case last year that "that struck down sections of the federal Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996 criminalizing the distribution and possession of computer-generated obscene images of minors engaged in sexual situations on free speech grounds."

So Brown decided that the best way to deal with it was to get a constitutional amendment against it. Who did he call? Not Ghostbusters, but his old friends at the Christian Coalition, led by his cousin, Roberta Combs.

"At his press conference, Brown specifically addressed the Supreme Court, 'Through this decision, the Supreme Court has cloaked pornographers with the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech, a result that our Founding Fathers could never have envisioned,'" The City Paper reported.

Bottom line: Brown wants to take away your freedom of speech, guaranteed in another amendment, the First.

The City Paper concludes:

"Brown seems to think that by protecting the free speech rights of artists or whoever that indulges in these types of depictions of children the Supreme Court has chosen to ignore the implications these images have upon American society. Unfortunately for the good people of South Carolina represented by Congressman Brown, he’s not smart enough to understand the implications of NOT protecting the Constitution’s free speech guarantees."

Read the full story in the Charleston City Paper: 7/24/02.

 

"As usual, Henry Brown did not disappoint The Eye’s below-low expectations of his leadership and intellectual capabilities."

-- Charleston City Paper, 7/24/02

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