No Constitutional Right to Dance in the Jefferson Memorial

[paulsby]

http://volokh.com/2010/01/27/no-constitutional-right-to-dance-in-the-jefferson-memorial/#comments

"So holds the Oberwetter v. Hilliard. The court concluded that

1) the Jefferson Memorial qualified as a “nonpublic forum” for First Amendment purposes, so that restrictions on speech there were constitutional if they were viewpoint-neutral and reasonable, and
2) the limitation on conduct in the Memorial “which involve the communication or expression ... has the effect, intent or propensity to draw a crowd or onlookers” was indeed viewpoint-neutral and reasonable. "

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[AnnieBW]

1. We've had a Samhain drumming circle there for YEARS

And some local Pagans did a ritual at the Jefferson the day before the Obama inauguration last year. (I was the one yelling "out, out, demons of stupidity!) However, the rituals are not inside of the Jefferson Memorial, but on the front entrance, down by the Tidal Basin. They don't like drums and such inside the Memorial itself because of the resonance frequencies.