Construing the First Amendment

The first amendment states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” This amendment has become the most construed and most misquoted amendment to this day. It does not say everyone, at every time, at every place, has freedom of speech, it say that Congress can’t make a regarding the freedom of speech. Any other lawmaking entity, or anyway else in this country for that matter is fully capable of limiting someone’s freedom to speech. This includes record companies, radio stations, FCC, anyone other than congress. People misquote this amendment and claim we all have a freedom of speech, which is clearly not true.

Now for my personal opinions, I believe that records should have parental advisory warnings, to make parents aware of the content, because parents have the choice to limit what their children listen too. My opinion is let your children listen too it, if you have brought your children up right, they will be able to discern what is reality and what is just music, and know wrong from right. Proverbs 22:6 says “Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it” this doesn’t mean you should shield your children from everything bad and evil, but instead means to teach your children how to discern good from bad, reality from fantasy, and so forth.