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No excuse for profanity

Aug 08

9:20 AM

Re "Prayer, profanity and free speech," letter, Aug. 5:

When I was growing up, there was prayer in our homes and in our schools, and all participated as their conscience dictated. The teachings of the Bible dictate that we love everyone as we ourselves wish to be loved.

The use of profanity has gotten way out of hand and now is actually accepted since we’ve forced God out of our daily lives. Freedom of speech was meant to allow discourse to freely flow from the minds of all citizens, not to be used as an excuse for being totally offensive.

Laura Hyler

Portsmouth

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Most people aren't

Submitted by xxJoxx on Wed, 08/13/2008 at 9:56 am.

very offended by what you call profanity... Times change and Thank God. I would HATE to be living in the stuffy 1950's.

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Profanity

Submitted by charlesm on Tue, 08/12/2008 at 8:47 pm.

If profanity is so bad, why do you think so many people pay good money to go listen to is and call it entertainment? If enough people did not go and pay good money, in tight times, to go listen and watch it, it would go away.

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