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Fire and Brimstone

Erin Gish

Issue date: 10/24/08 Section: Campus News
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Brother Matt riles up students on Front Campus, Tues. Oct. 21as he preaches and condemns in the school's free speech zone. Impassioned audiences argued and refuted the evangelist. The free speech zone has attracted many outspoken subjects in the past including the infamous Brother Micah, also an evangelist.

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David "Roy" Henry '03

posted 10/24/08 @ 6:45 PM EST

Regardless of whether you agree with what was being said, does it not bother anyone that a government entity (Georgia College & State University) has a "free speech zone"? My reading of the Constitution is such, given incorporation, that government may not infringe upon our right to speak freely. (Continued…)

Bob

posted 10/27/08 @ 11:16 PM EST

The way I see it, the zone isn't such that you can only speak freely in that area, but as an encouragement. While you can speak freely anywhere, the free speech zone might thought more of as a "speech zone", a way to organize and have a designated area to hear interesting and new, perhaps radical ideas. (Continued…)

FTW

posted 10/29/08 @ 11:24 AM EST

Man all this dumbass was trying to do was just to get hit so he can sue the school and live his pathetic life off of the money he gets.

Mr. Patton

posted 11/01/08 @ 2:45 PM EST

Roy (if I may call you that), the dominant interpretation is that no right guaranteed by the Bill of Rights is absolute. A number of court cases, for instance, have restricted the right to free speech. (Continued…)

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