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. According to the U.S. Department of Justice , “Obscenity is not protected under First Amendment Rights of Free Speech, and violations of federal obscenity laws are criminal offenses.’ The problem is that such standards change so quickly that any sincere attempt to figure them out is an exercise in frustration. Nowhere is this more apparent than in our courts. Decisions such as Roth v. United States (1957) have tried to justify and preserve the obscenity exception by defining it as anything that's “utterly without redeeming social importance .” This and other variations, have employed such concepts without bothering to ask what constitutes redeeming social importance or community standards. Who gets to c...