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'''Larry Flynt''' is the founder of the immoral and pornographic magazine ''Hustler''. Flynt is an [[atheism|atheist]].<ref>Flynt writes, "I have left my religious conversion behind and settled into a comfortable state of atheism": see the epilogue of Flynt and Ross</ref><ref>"I am not saying he don't believe in God. I am just saying I don't believe in God. That puts me at odds with him." ''[http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9701/11/falwell.v.flynt/lkl.00.html Larry King Live]'', January 10, 1996</ref> See also: [[Atheism and pornography]] | '''Larry Flynt''' is the founder of the immoral and pornographic magazine ''Hustler''. Flynt is an [[atheism|atheist]].<ref>Flynt writes, "I have left my religious conversion behind and settled into a comfortable state of atheism": see the epilogue of Flynt and Ross</ref><ref>"I am not saying he don't believe in God. I am just saying I don't believe in God. That puts me at odds with him." ''[http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9701/11/falwell.v.flynt/lkl.00.html Larry King Live]'', January 10, 1996</ref> See also: [[Atheism and pornography]] | ||
| − | In 1998, | + | In 1998, Larry Flynt took out an ad in the [[Washington Post]] offering a $1 million reward for scandalous stories that could be used to smear Clinton critics as the impeachment of President [[Bill Clinton]] was looming.<ref>Robert J. Caldwell, "Scorched Earth; Clinton's allies trigger the `Doomsday Machine' against his enemies The San Diego Union-Tribune, G-4 (Jan. 17, 1999)</ref> |
In 2003, ''Arena magazine'' magazine listed Flynt as #1 on the "50 Powerful People in Porn" list.<ref>[http://www.onenewspage.us/people/ms9j0/Larry-Flynt.htm Larry Flynt - One News Page]</ref> Flynt is paralyzed from the waist down due to injuries sustained from a 1978 assassination attempt by the serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin.<ref>Flynt and Ross, pp. 170–171.</ref><ref>[http://www.onenewspage.us/people/ms9j0/Larry-Flynt.htm Larry Flynt - One News Page]</ref> | In 2003, ''Arena magazine'' magazine listed Flynt as #1 on the "50 Powerful People in Porn" list.<ref>[http://www.onenewspage.us/people/ms9j0/Larry-Flynt.htm Larry Flynt - One News Page]</ref> Flynt is paralyzed from the waist down due to injuries sustained from a 1978 assassination attempt by the serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin.<ref>Flynt and Ross, pp. 170–171.</ref><ref>[http://www.onenewspage.us/people/ms9j0/Larry-Flynt.htm Larry Flynt - One News Page]</ref> | ||
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Larry Flynt is the founder of the immoral and pornographic magazine Hustler. Flynt is an atheist.[3][4] See also: Atheism and pornography
In 1998, Larry Flynt took out an ad in the Washington Post offering a $1 million reward for scandalous stories that could be used to smear Clinton critics as the impeachment of President Bill Clinton was looming.[5]
In 2003, Arena magazine magazine listed Flynt as #1 on the "50 Powerful People in Porn" list.[6] Flynt is paralyzed from the waist down due to injuries sustained from a 1978 assassination attempt by the serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin.[7][8]
Since founding the magazine, Flynt has become an advocate of a liberal conception of free speech, under which profanity and pornography are classed as protected speech.
Flynt acquired national status when he published a satirical article defaming, in disgusting terms, preacher Jerry Falwell. Falwell sued Flynt, but lost in the Supreme Court, when the ACLU defended him. The case was dramatized in the 1996 film The People v. Larry Flynt, directed by Milos Forman, with Woody Harrelson as the notorious editor. Since Flynt's case, slanderous satire has been presumed acceptable as free speech.
Notes
- ↑ Flynt writes, "I have left my religious conversion behind and settled into a comfortable state of atheism": see the epilogue of Flynt and Ross
- ↑ "I am not saying he don't believe in God. I am just saying I don't believe in God. That puts me at odds with him." Larry King Live, January 10, 1996
- ↑ Flynt writes, "I have left my religious conversion behind and settled into a comfortable state of atheism": see the epilogue of Flynt and Ross
- ↑ "I am not saying he don't believe in God. I am just saying I don't believe in God. That puts me at odds with him." Larry King Live, January 10, 1996
- ↑ Robert J. Caldwell, "Scorched Earth; Clinton's allies trigger the `Doomsday Machine' against his enemies The San Diego Union-Tribune, G-4 (Jan. 17, 1999)
- ↑ Larry Flynt - One News Page
- ↑ Flynt and Ross, pp. 170–171.
- ↑ Larry Flynt - One News Page