At Get Religion, Terry Mattingly points us to an LATimes article on controversies surround the teaching of the Amerenian Genocide of 1915-18.

We are talking, of course, about the 1915-18 massacre of Armenians by the Turkish government. A recent Los Angeles Times story by Elizabeth Mehren offered readers a glimpse into the controversies surrounding the genocide by focusing on a lawsuit in Massachusetts — backed by Turks and others — that says students should hear evidence that the genocide never happened or that it has been blown out of proportion.

Is this a case where free speech is absolute? Or is it somehow similar to cases involving — prepare for thunderbolts — Holocaust denial?

How emotional is this? How loaded are these debates? Listen to these voices:

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