'I Will Defend To Keep It Based On Free Speech'

KOMO News ^ | May 13, 2005 | Liz Rocca

[Kenny Bunkport]

Agreed, but the ones I'm more concerned about are the state DMV officials who have obviously decided to take this complaint seriously.

[Zacs Mom]

Could someone please point out to these idiots that neither the Constitution nor the Amendments to the Constitution guarantee that they "shall not be offended"!

[Kenny Bunkport]

she should be required to testify at the hearing as to what rights of hers were violated by the plate

Why, her right not to be offended, of course. Forget the fact that her selfish opinion of the plate offends countless Bible-believing Christians.

[Kenny Bunkport]

I think they need to publish her name, home phone, and address

Not to mention her email address and her DU screen name.

[CSM]

Yep, the right to not be offended goes to the next logical step. What happens when the Righteous Right is prevented from carrying their Bibles in public. At that point, will they realize their "right to not be offended" has been taken to far.

(Note: My use of the term RR does not mean all Christians. It only refers to those with Fascist tendencies.)

[goodnesswins]

Gee....wonder if this woman feels her MONEY is "Praying Over Her"........This IS a MISUSE of public funds to listen to every idiot who is "offended."

[RWR8189]

I don't see why someone that does not believe in the Bible would be any more offended by that vanity plate than by one that said CLANCY LVR.

[trisham]

Not to mention her email address and her DU screen name.

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LOL!! Excellent.

[Xenalyte]

"I will defend to keep it based on free speech," she said.

Screw the free speech. She needs work on correct speech.

[threeleftsmakearight]

CONGRESS shall make no law...
Since when did the sstae of Washington become congress?

[Fledermaus]

A Pierce County woman made the complaint, which reads in part: "I was offended that I have to be 'prayed over' by a license plate... What happened to keeping church and state separate?"

It doesn't exist you MORON!

[Xenalyte]

Yo Pres, Bob mentioned the Moro Islamic Liberation Front!

[andyk]

I was offended that I have to be 'prayed over' by a license plate

Can I get a what, what?

[Kenny Bunkport]

LOL....Which raises an interesting question: Does the right to free speech include the right to use poor grammar?

[longtermmemmory]

21 years?

Statute of limitations?

Doctrine of Latches?

Denying this establishes anti-religion as an official state religion.

[Xenalyte]

Absolutely, but it carries with it the penalty of being mocked by people like me.

[Kenny Bunkport]

LOL...that's called the "freedom to ridicule."

[scooter2]

I once had the letters to spell Jesus on a Scrabble rack.

Nope, not allowed. Jesus is a proper noun. Against the rules of Scrabble. Put in on the back of your car instead.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

CONGRESS shall make no law... Since when did the sstae of Washington become congress?

The Fourteenth Amendment has been understood to apply the strictures against federal infringement on freedom to the states as well.

Note that the First Amendment says Congress shall make no law rather than saying that "no law shall exist." At the time of the adoption of the First Amendment, some states had established churches. The First Amendment was crafted not to repeal those state laws. And in fact the First Amendment would have been consistent with censorship imposed within a state by its state government. The First Amendment said that that wasn't the federal government's business. Viewed that way, the First Amendment was a bulwark not of individual liberty in general but of States' Rights.

[Calpernia]

They are comparing a Bible verse to sexual reference?