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...Alan Dershowitz, professor of Law, said there can be a "danger in reading too much into Supreme Court decisions." He added that the court may have decided to hear the case for a variety of reasons, including popular opinion...
...Dershowitz said that despite the ruling, he is "confident the court in future years will find discrimination based on sexual preferences unconstitutional...
...Dershowitz then said that today's pornography laws demanded conformity with community standards and argued that this interfered with freedom by involving a third party in what should be left to the discretion of two mutually consenting adults...
...showing of pornography films on an open 50-foot screen in the middle of Harvard Square for all to see should be illegal, Dershowitz said, "but what is viewed or read inside movie theaters, books, magazines, and homes should be none of the courts' business...
...Dershowitz said that many people find Buckley's stands offensive and would want to censor him, adding that he sometimes wanted to censor anti-Semitic publications--"Everybody wants to censor somebody; that's why we can have no censorship...