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Cardinal Francis Spellman — Part 2
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by those who profit from the salacious as a spurious rallying cry to defeat the
high purpose contained in this legislation.” :
1 am also heartened by the intelligent and sound observations of
Judge Charles $. Desmond, who in a vigorous and well-reasoned dissent
in the ‘Fanny Hill" case stated: "I refuse to believe that all this can continue
to be the law. I predict that the wheel will turn and the pendulum swing back.
Sometime and somehow we will return to the historical meaning of “Freedom
of the Press." On that awaited day, the courts will find it possible in at
least some extreme cases, not only to announce but to apply their oft-repeated
holding that obscenity is an exception to the First Amendment's protections."
Like the three dissenting judges, we cannot accept these court
decisions quietiy and without reservation, if this nation is to survive. These
decisions impose upon us the responsibility for immediate, continuous and
to the Senate.
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