AEJMC presentation

Politically conservative students who are also highly religious become more tolerant as they study the First Amendment and the literature of classic liberal speech theory. That's according to a presentation to be made this morning at 10 a.m. by me and three colleagues. Our manuscript is titled "Democratic Learning and The Sober Second Thought: The Effect of Reading John Stuart Mill’s Essay 'On Liberty' on Tolerance for Free Speech Among Highly Religious Politically Conservative Students" and is being presented at the Association for Educational in Journalism and Mass Communication, here in San Antonio.

Essentially, we found that BYU students became more tolerant of the 2004 Michael Moore visit to Utah County once they had taken a course in First Amendment theory.