“Choose Life” License Plate Controversy Solved
March 18th, 2006 at 11:28 am by SmantixBetween rampant state corruption, a failing $9 billion dollar socialist health care debacle and a runaway murder rate (though I love the way it’s sugarcoated), it’s nice to know that the ACLU has enough time on it’s hands to waste the taxpayer’s money over controversial “Choose Life” license plates. A US Circuit Court ruled Friday that:
“Although this exercise of government one-sidedness with respect to a very contentious political issue may be ill-advised, we are unable to conclude that the Tennessee statute contravenes the First Amendment,” Judge John M. Rogers said in a 2-1 ruling.
The First Amendment does not prohibit the government from using private volunteers to put out its message, Rogers said, even if that message is controversial or politically divisive.
The offending license plate in question?
Laugh now anti-choice zealots! We’ll see how big your gummy smile is when they’re forcing the ten commandments down your throat on state property and making you pray and say the pledge of allegiance before high school football games.
Our local ACLU affiliate raised their collective head up from the plateful of babies they were eating long enough to issue this statement:
Hedy Weinberg, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee, a plaintiff in the case, said the ruling “fails to protect free speech and permits viewpoint discrimination.”
“Viewpoint discrimination”, eh? I’ve visited enough Gatlinburg gift shops to know that anyone can make their own license plate if they want it. The government is not stopping you.
Brothers and sisters. It’s not that the ACLU hates life. They love life as much as you or I. Just different. In the spirit of comity, I’ll offer a compromise that I know the bedwetting leftists at the ACLU can enjoy.
A Choose Life License Plate that reflects the values of their “viewpoint”:
This could catch on. The DIY ACLU Death Row Inmate “Choose Life” License Plate Kit™ could help victimize the dead in a way inconceivable unless you took the time to kill them yourself! And with the number of death row inmates in all 50 states, your options can be as limitless as your hypocrisy.
March 18th, 2006 at 2:20 pm
I was thinking of doing something quite similar to this when I saw the weeping and wailing in the Tennessean this morning, but yours is much better.
March 18th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
For whatever it’s worth, the ACLU challenged Florida’s “Choose Life” license plates and lost as well.
March 18th, 2006 at 4:22 pm
Wonderin if the ACLU will take on my cause. I object to the protection of Wildlife plates we have in PA. Hell when I see a deer in my head lights, my first thought is cream the bastard. That’ll teach the dumb son of a bitch not to wonder into my head lights.
Is it illegal to “spot” ACLU members on State Highways?
March 18th, 2006 at 5:31 pm
And i’ve had just about enough of “Protect Our Oceans” plates complete with that damn whale on it here in Kalifornya! I want my plate to show the whale at the end of a harpoon!
March 18th, 2006 at 7:55 pm
We have Wild Turkey license plates. Not to honor Hank Sr., or to go drinking, but rather for hunting and killing the fabled fat Thanksgiving vulture.
Perhaps Kalifornistan can hammer out a license plate with a gay baby whale smoking a cigarette in the crosshairs.
And that fills up my hate crime dance card for the night.
March 18th, 2006 at 9:47 pm
Smantix:
If there isn’t yet an award for this kind of thing, there should be, and you should get it. And I’m serious, for a change.
March 19th, 2006 at 9:23 am
Thanks Rhod. I wish I’d win an award for whatever the hell it is I do too.
Still trying to figure that part out though.
March 19th, 2006 at 2:02 pm
That’s why there’s no award, Smantix.