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QUOTED RECENTLY “Before World War I, all the interesting ‘free speech’ cases were about blasphemy. There were all sorts of bloody laws on the books. In 17th-century Maryland, you could have your tongue nailed to a tree for it.” —Penn Professor of Law and History Sarah Barringer Gordon, commenting on Americaís historical attitudes toward
religious blasphemy, in the wake of the Muhammad cartoon controversy. (Washington Post, Feb. 15, 2006)
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