Putting up a handwritten piece of paper is aggravated harassment?
Hate crime
is discrimination illegal? i think it might be in cases like this. anyone?
“I can do what I want. I live in America,”
Silly woman
Just where in the heck does she think she lives? A free Country?
People are so stupid sometimes. There is a difference in excessive political correctness, and crossing over a line of common decency.
The joke over the water fountain was in very poor taste. The “I rent to whites only” sign was actually probably a violation of the fair housing act.
SnakeDoc
That’s what I thought ... this worker pled to a charge that was held to be unconstitutionally vague. I have no problem when law enforcement and prosecutors enforce the law correctly and in the interest of the state. However, prosecutors who deliberately pursue cases based on laws that have been stricken down should be sued.
http://www.swlearning.com/blaw/cases/new_york.html
http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/niagaracounty/story/429665.html
What a quaint, silly notion.
These police clearly haven’t read the first amendment lately, it was her OWN property, who gives a rip if someone was offended; get over it, if it was city property I could see them taking it down. (I would say the same thing if it were a black person insulting whites, and saying they would only rent to blacks-ON THEIR OWN PROPERTY): Sheesh, since when did having your own opinion become a “crime”. What’s worse is this lady probably doesn’t have the time or money to fight the corrupt police on this..
http://www.regent.edu/acad/schlaw/faculty_staff/duane.cfm
It is clearly racist and wrongheaded.
It is also fascist to tell this woman who to rent to.
It is her house and the sign is on her property. I’m sure there are real crimes to be investigated elsewhere..
The worst thing about freedom is that it can be so ugly at times. Its much better to have someone, anyone, preferably a committee of someones, to protect us from being too individualistic. Her hate scribbles aren’t just words...just speeches. They’re talismanic totems of bigotry, with words that literally leap off the page and assault any hapless minority who is within reading distance. I agree with everyone on this thread who thinks this woman was in the wrong. I mean, we’re free, but we’re not free to hurt.
I wonder what the reaction would be both here, and by the media in general if a heterosexual male felt he had the freedom to specify he didn’t want a homosexual roommate? Well, I can predict the media’s reaction...outrage.
Why, the very idea that you can show discretion in who you live with makes me livid. There ought to be more laws...
Personally, I like to keep the gay far, far away. Maybe some of the males on this thread who are in favor of government intervention in this lady’s personal life feel differently...? After all, one doesn’t choose to be gay anymore than they choose their skin color. Or at least that’s what the ruling party believes, so the truth of the matter doesn’t even enter in to it as far as enforcement of the law goes. Or would it be different in your case? Tell it to your federally backed gay roommate, or maybe if you’re really lucky, it will be your son whom the federal government gets to force to accept any and all into his home, should he choose to make money off of it.
Nah, it’ll never happen. Homosexuals aren’t a ‘protected class’ like racial minorities are.
Hmmm - but they keep telling us that southerners are the racist bigots and are still beating that horse as recently as last month.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2195423/posts