Could a weekend of fireworks, patriotic music and good ol' flag-waving have revived the public acceptance of the freedoms it just celebrated? One can only hope.
A survey about attitudes toward the First Amendment released last week is unsettling. Too often support for the right to free expression erodes when someone else finds it inconvenient. More than two-thirds of those polled by the Freedom Forum's First Amendment Center say that public remarks deemed offensive to certain racial groups should not be allowed.
More than half applied the same qualification to remarks about religious groups. Half say art shouldn't be displayed in a public place if some find …
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