Sunday, December 27, 2009



ACLU gets one right

Nice to see that they do OCCASIONALLY stand up for free speech.
"A new group called “Stand For Marriage DC” has popped up now that the D.C. city council has passed and the mayor signed into law same-sex marriage. The group is a thinly veiled version of National Organization for Marriage that successfully defeated same-sex marriage in California and Maine. The organization has placed anti-same-sex advertising on D.C. Metro.

Full Equality Now DC, a Washington-based LGBT rights group, wants the ads removed on the grounds that they insult gays and lesbians and violate Metro’s nondiscrimination policies.

Stand For Marriage DC wants to put marriage equality up for a vote.

The ACLU as well as representatives of LGBT groups have sided with the anti-marriage group on the basis of free-speech.

Source

More details here. Another surprising thing is that the transit authority accepted the ads. Apparently the slogan is: "Let the People Vote on Marriage", so I guess it was hard to object to that.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

There are a lot of things the government, local, state and federal, should let the people vote for. Like health care, gay marriage and term limits for Representatives and Senators.

Anonymous said...

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day!

Bobby said...

As long as they don't vote against free speech, the second amendment, or anything that's protected in the constitution.

J. Birch said...

The very last thing activist gays want is for the people to decide. Whenever the people get that chance, the overwhelming majority vote NO to same-sex marriage. Gays also know that come next Nov. when this Leftist government is swept from power, their only option will be to go back to the courts and find the most liberal judges they can to over-ride the will of the people, something they've done many times in the past.

Anonymous said...

Wake-up Bobby. There's no longer anything in the constitution that is protected, taken as intended, or untouchable.

Anonymous said...

If it was left to what the majority would vote for, restricted voting and racial segregation would have gone on for much longer, and so would the total illegality of homosexuality.

Anonymous said...

Sounds like the perfect world. Now if they would only make it illegal for women to have phones.

Anonymous said...

This sounds like a simple political advertisement and, so long as the appropriate disclosures were made, should be unobjectionable.