Too High A Price

By now, you’ve all no doubt heard that Rick Santorum would like to ban pornography.

I honestly don’t have much to say about this. It’s really simple. It’s an obviously dumb idea that is obviously unconstitutional. But it did remind me of the following exchange from The West Wing, unfortunately I couldn’t find a clip, but here’s the quote:

John Van Dyke: If our children can buy pornography on any street corner for five dollars, isn’t that too high a price to pay for free speech?
President Josiah Bartlet: No.
John Van Dyke: Really?
President Josiah Bartlet: On the other hand, I think that five dollars is too high a price to pay for pornography.

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