Some years ago, I wrote a book called It's all in a Word:  God, Life and Meaning.  In it, I discussed the primacy of speech in the universe, that at the center of the cosmos is the notion of speech.  It was from speech that the cosmos began, and it is in speech that we live our lives:  we live in a universe that speaks to us.  Our world is a personal world, a world that we can see, hear, taste, and touch.  It is a world grounded in the concept of communication,a world made by a communicative and personal God.
      Hence, to suppress speech is one of the darkest offenses against the dignity of every human being.  To suppress speech is to deny the essential nature of the cosmos.  This is why I applaud, applaud vigorously, the willingness of hundreds of newspapers around the U.S. yesterday to affirm the absolute necessity of a free press.  I don't think any of us likes everything the press says or does, but we seriously err, theologically as well as culturally, if we suppress its activities.
     God has given us free choice, absolute free choice.  We should allow ourselves the same.  Order is important, yes, but freedom is the essence of humanness.
     As I said in the closing line of my book, "Speak."