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Originally Posted by CheeseFrog
"Murder is illegal. But, you take a picture of somebody committing the act of murder and they'll put you on the cover of Newsweek. You might even win a Pulitzer Prize. And yet sex is legal. Everybody's doing it, or everybody wants to be doing it. Yet, you take a picture of two people in the act of sex, or just take a picture of a woman's naked body and they'll put you in jail. Now I have a message for all you good, moral Christian people who are complaining that breasts and vaginas are "obscene": Hey, don't complain to me! Complain to the manufacturer! And although Jesus told us not to judge, I know you're going to judge anyway, so judge sanely. Judge with your eyes open."
Woody Harrelson in "The People vs. Larry Flynt"
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That was a great movie. Flynt's successful defense against Falwell's "defamation" claim actually broke new ground in the legal landscape. It used to be fairly easy to shut down someone's speech by suing them on defamation grounds. After the Flynt case, the hurdle a case has to overcome has been raised quite high.