And what weightier issues are those? So the founders didn't believe we had a right to speak? Machine is right. Freedom of speech protects not only what is pleasing to your ear to hear, but that which is distasteful and offensive. Ya, the 1rst amendment covers 5 rights, but remember it doesn't grant those rights to us, it's law that the government is to follow and instructs that they may not mess with those rights. If the government of today tried to make the same law that is the 1rst amendment, it would be 7000 pages long and riddled with double speak. But the fact is, the constitution is the supreme law of the land, and it's the law against the government. Not a law agaisnt the people. The people have rights, the government has priveleges.