... been rented for a wide variety of expressive activities prior to Southeastern's application, Chattanooga city officials refused Southeastern's request, citing Hair's nudity, tacit approval or drug use, sexual themes, and bad language. The court found the municipal auditorium to be a designated public forum, and the city's refusal use of its auditorium to be an unconstitutional prior restraint. The only real difference between ... for the court, Justice Harlan noted that "one man's vulgarity is another man's lyric" and suggested that the First Amendment protect not just the intellectual ...

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