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by Bill Donovan

Is a magazine obscene if it contains pictures of nude men and is admittedly designed to appeal mainly to homosexuals?

On June 25, 1962, the U. S. Supreme Court decided two cases which protect the liberties of Americans against dangerous government encroachment. In one case the Court forbade a State to decide how school children ought to pray. In the other case it defended the right of adults to decide what magazines to read-or at least what pictures to look at.

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The school prayer case led to such a frenzy of criticism (most of it wildly irrelevant) that the magazine decision was overlooked by most people. Yet that decision protects people whose choice of reading matter, for their own personal enjoyment, might be endangered by public officials whose tastes happen to differ. More specifically the decision sets up rather strict limits on banning supposedly obscene materials from the mails.

In 1960 Postal authorities seized 405 copies of three magazines, MAN-

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