There'll be no state-supported proselytizing on Vermont license plates - to the dismay of fundies...

[marmar]

:cry: :nopity:



from the American Family Assn's OneNewsNow:



John 3:16 a no-go for VT car tag
Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow - 12/10/2008 4:00:00 AM


Religious expression is being barred from license plates in Vermont.

Jeremy Tedesco of the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) handled recent arguments before the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Byrne v. Rutledge.

"Vanity plates are allowed in Vermont; personalized messages on the back of your license plates ," Tedesco points out. "But the state says no to all religious messages, and actually prohibited our client from putting a reference to John 3:16 (on a license plate)."

In response to Shawn Byrne's application for a specialty plate bearing that inscription, the state issued a letter saying his application was "deemed to be a combination that refers to deity and has been denied based on that reason." The ADF attorney says that is illegal viewpoint discrimination and an outright mistreatment of people of faith.

"The state has exclusions on profanity and obscenity and pornography and things like that on their vanity plates -- and then they lump religion in with those categories of speech. It's just astonishing to me," says Tedesco.

A decision should come in several weeks.


http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=347842 (if rickrolled, this story's in the onenewsnow area of www.afa.net)

[donco6]

1. You mean, like "gay" and "bestiality"?

Welcome to my world.

[madeline_con]

2. Don't forget pedophilia...

:eyes:

[KG]

3. oh! the persecution! how do they stand it all?

[snake in the grass]

4. That's good to hear.

Now, if Florida would finally get rid of these, I'd be happy.



Money from the sales of these repugnant plates goes to the organization 'Choose Life, Inc.'.

[marmar]

5. Ugh....That's an official state license plate? ..... Ugh

Florida........