than an enemy of God-given rights that are guaranteed under
the United States Constitution.

You heard the testimony of the selected
representative of Scientology organization, and her
testimony under oath was that what she wished enjoined was
the exposure of the adherents of her organization to words
and ideas which they find offensive. Your Honor, that was
her testimony, almost word for word.

There are many prices that we pay for living in
a democracy. There’s a lot of prices for it. One of my
favorite judges back home has a sign on the wall that says,
“The price of our liberty is slavery to the law.”

Another price of living in a democracy is the
exposure to ideas that we find offensive, the exposure to
ideas that we find hateful or even hurtful.

It is more telling than anything that I could
have wished for that the statement of Scientology’s
representative was simply that: We don’t want our people
exposed to this speech.

There was no evidence of any injury to anybody,
no complaint of any injury to anybody, only the fact that
the free flow of information has penetrated, to one degree
or another, a bubble that Scientology seeks to put around
its adherents.

And that, Your Honor, while it may violate