[Abathar]

If it was a sign that PROMOTED those same things then it would be fine by everyone involved though...

[Madeleine Ward]

Wow. You can't display anything religious on public property, and now they are saying you can't do it on private property as well.

Pretty soon, you won't be able to pay for an ad in a paper doing the same.

[GeronL]

I didn't know our elected officials had the power to censor... thats a new one.

[winner3000]

If that was done on private property, that's the same as holding signs at a protest. This should be an easy case of a right under the first amendment right ursurped by the government. Anybody who's angry about Bush should just remember him the next 20 or so years every time that a case goes to the supreme court.

[winner3000]

If that was done on private property, that's the same as holding signs at a protest. This should be an easy case of a right under the first amendment right ursurped by the government. Anybody who's angry about Bush should just remember him the next 20 or so years every time that a case goes to the supreme court.

[kinoxi]

Sounds more like a 'homeowners association' egotist flexing his 'power'. The link provided little background though.

[Kenton]

I guess the question I have is, who took the sign down? Did the borough president use strongarm tactics to silence free speech in a private forum, or did the sign company just cave to pressure?

Probably a little of both. If the minister had a contract for a certain length of time with the sign company and they violated it, then I'd say he has a suit against them too. I'd say he definitely has a suit against the borough president for violating his civil rights, as long as the sign wasn't on borough property or something.

[brooklyn dave]

Activist homosexuals and over zealous ministers--both give me agida

[Tzimisce]

Idiot - when we said "Free Speech" we didn't mean for Christians...

[lilylangtree]

Hope the minister wins but in this slowly but surely forsaking God country I doubt it.

[Skooz]

THIS is censorship.

[murphE]

the president of the Staten Island borough called the message intolerant, offensive and unwelcome.

"America it is said is suffering from intolerance. It is not. It is suffering from tolerance, tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so over run with the bigoted, as it is over run with the broadminded. Tolerance, is an attitude of reasoned patience towards evil . . .a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons...never to truth. Tolerance applies to the erring, intolerance to the error.... Architects are as intolerant about sand as foundations for skyscraper as doctors are intolerant about germs in the laboratories."- Bishop Fulton Sheen 1931

[longtermmemmory]

so now governments are free to PROHIBIT the free exercise of religion?