Is Hate Speech Becoming the New Blasphemy? Lessons From an American Constitutional Dialectic
Justin Kirk Houser, 114 Penn St. L. Rev. 571 (2009)
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This Comment will attempt to shed light on how the United States’ prior experience with blasphemy speech regulation can positively inform current approaches to hate speech. Important international comparisons will also be made where appropriate. In part one, the Comment will analyze the connection between the history of blasphemy regulation and the development of hate speech regulation.
