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TIL that when an Italian film called “The Miracle” was released in the U.S in Dec. 1950 that it led to so much religious controversy that the issue went directly to a 1951 Supreme Court Case ruling that finally declared the legal precedent of 1st and 14th Amendments protection for film.

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