British motoring authority forced to pull 'anti-gay' private numberplates from auction
We read:
"The controversial Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency has been forced to withdraw personalised numberplates from an auction after complaints they were offensive to the gay community.
The two registrations – F4 GOT and D1 KES – were to have been among 1,600 auctioned at a sale this week.
But Stonewall, the gay rights charity, objected to the DVLA profiting from the sale of the insulting numberplates and they were dropped from the auction, which is expected to raise £3.5million.
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Six years after a Supreme Court ruling in her favor, Carol Ann Martin is still getting a lot of mileage out of her Irish pride.
"A lot of people still say something about it," Martin said, referring to her hard-won "Irish1" license plate. "It gets admired a lot when I go to Massachusetts."
The Wallingford. Vermont woman who became a celebrity of sorts in 2000 after her request for a vanity license plate was turned down, was the first person to bare her ethnic pride on her plate after the state's Supreme Court ruled in her favor in 2003.
The state agency once prohibited ethnic words on plates because they could be considered "offensive or confusing to the general public." However, in the years since the rule was overturned, Snyder said the department has received no complaints about the license plates
So they're offended by a bundle of small pieces of wood and walls preventing flooding?
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