Solving the problem of how to protect kids from corrupting content isn’t happening any time soon.

The Supreme Court ruled http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304447804576411571732346148.html?mod=djemalertNEWS) that California can’t block minors from buying videos with violent content. It’s a first amendment issue. It goes with the turnover of Federal legislation to  ban animal-cruelty videos. That poses a problem for constitutional literalists like me. (Actually, I’m an Originalist, of sorts … I beleieve the framers and those who supported them had a God-driven understanding of what would work for America, and trying to look at today’s questions with their mind set makes sense). I can’t be sure that James Madison, who presented the Bill of Rights, would feel like I do about the pornography of violence. So what to do?

Should I bend, and adopt a modern/instrumentalist position, and accept that the consitutional intent should be modified by a modern climate? I can’t. The risks are too great. So I guess the best I can do is hope for a children’s Bill of Rights to be added to the Constitution to fight off the tide of sexual and violent imagery sweeping over our Children.   A great evil cannot be defeated by taking away the protection of the Constitution …