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If his puerile social media posts, uncouth behavior and playground insults were unpresidential, the thinking went, well, that showed a certain authenticity and a willingness to overturn convention and break some china that badly needed breaking.

"From the very start, Jesus was engaging with the lowliest of the low, the shepherds, who were out on the literal margins of society, smelly, uncouth folks out there tending smelly animals," Rev. Nathan Empsall, an Episcopal priest and executive director of national Christian organization Faithful America, said in an interview.

It was classic Alatorre: uncompromising, uncouth and unapologetic in the name of exerting his influence to better Latinos.

“Mary & George” strikes a desirable balance, delivering a little of the unexpected and uncouth in welcome spots, especially where the randy bits are concerned.

For as long as this court is controlled by a six-justice conservative supermajority, lurking beneath the surface of First Amendment cases like these is the tension between the justices’ vigilance about the excesses of cancel culture on the one hand, and their distaste for speech they personally find rude or uncouth on the other.