I Will Defend To Keep It Based On Free Speech (Vanity Plate)

KOMO TV ^ | May 13, 2005 | Liz Rocca

[Cowman]

My plates are due for renewal. Maybe I'll try that one here in Wisconsin if it's not already taken. :)

If it is taken try F-DEMS. To them it says the same thing -- It challenges their only article of faith, that the state is God.

[CPOSharky]

What happened to keeping church and state separate?"

The complainer doesn't know what the First Amendment actually says, just what her liberal friends say.

"The complainer can go pound salt." Sharky 5-16

[JoeSixPack1]

Ignorance knows no bounds. Tell the review committee it's in memorial to her high school sweetheart John, born March 16th. Or they broke up March 16. Creative anti-religous complaints, not having a basis in reality, sometimes require an answer in kind.

End of prob. Keep the plate. Do minor penance. :-)

But being a Christian, she is being truthful and honest. The dilemma alone is enough to make ya say a couple of Hail Mary's. :-)

[Lazamataz]

But Brad Benfield with the State Department of Licensing said, "It appears from the complaint that somebody was not happy that a state issued license plate had a religious component."

Identify the complainant.

In America, we have the right to face our accusers.

Make his or her name public.

[Lazamataz]

"The complainer can go pound salt." Sharky 5-16

"Identify this weasel. Publish his name. Harass him wherever he goes." -- Lazamataz 3:19

[null and void]

She needs a frame that says:

ON THE OTHER HAND
JOHN 3:16
I HATE YOUR GUTS

[Jet Jaguar]

A few years back, a kid was given a graduation present by his father.

It was a car with a vanity plate that read 4JIHAD.

It was a news story until the press learned the kid's name was Jihad. Reported to be an honorable first name among the Islamic community in California. IIRC

[wizardoz]

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?"

This woman is just a b-tch. Likes to control others. I hate creatures like these....

[null and void]

I'm wondering just how long it will be before someone complains about my new 9/11 memorial plate.

[Jet Jaguar]

Unfortunately, I am sure it will happen.

[null and void]

Me too.

Although it is milder than I wanted. KLMALL was taken...

[southernnorthcarolina]

We tracked down the woman who lodged the complaint, and she declined an on-camera interview. She says frankly, she's dismayed the state didn't keep her complaint anonymous.

That's what bothers me most about this tawdry little episode. Should not the "accused" (Ms. Milhans) have the right of knowing who her accuser is?

I think the TV station should provide the name of the accuser. Let's see if she has any habits which are "offensive."

Anyone who files complaint on another citizen should be required to do so openly and publicly. Anonymous complaints should be ignored.

[TrailofTears]

Well said, as we slowly move step by step into a police state. Or I should say, a godless police state.

[DuncanWaring]

Apparently that little clause about "...prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." is out of style these days.

[SAJ]

Chortle!!! Nice shot!

[xrp]

Tell the offended bitch not to look at the license plate.

[SAJ]

State DMVs are staffed, generally, by morons and just chock full of would-be, but thankfully mindless, censors. Examples from MO:

69 and LXIX are issued plates. VI-IX is barred by statute.

44DD is an issued plate. 34DD is barred by statute.

QQQQ2 is an issued plate. 3MTA3 is barred by statute.

Blithering idiots -- these are but a few of hundreds of such examples in this state.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

The CHRISTIAN FAITH is treated like a hate crime.

Unless you are a Christian who doesn't actually believe the Bible. Then you're okay. Well, you have to not believe the Bible in enough areas. You must denounce Genesis, Leviticus, Romans, oh, all of the Epistles really, and anything anywhere they says you should "repent."

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

The obvious hole in what I just said is that John 3:16 didn't make my lest. So I guess we must expand the list. Hmmm...maybe we should think of this differently. You CAN say "judge not lest ye be judges" and you can demand that Christians (only) "turn the other cheek." You can say that God loves EVERYONE and that we should love sinners but accuse those who have moral values of hypocrisy. I think that about covers what you CAN say. Everything else is banned.