Posted on 03/05/2009 3:36:53 AM PST by Man50D
CLEARWATER, Fla. – City officials here apparently don't have a problem with flying the American flag, but posting the text of the U.S. Constitution is a very different story.
A federal judge is now deciding if government officials are going overboard in fining a Florida bait and tackle shop owner $500 a day for displaying the First Amendment atop a mural of marine life on his building.
U.S. Magistrate Elizabeth Jenkins today heard initial arguments in a federal lawsuit as the American Civil Liberties Union is seeking an injunction to stop the city of Clearwater from fining businessman Herb Quintero.
Under questioning by Quintero's team, the city's lone witness, Planning Director Michael Delk, was forced to admit that if the business had posted a U.S. flag instead of a First Amendment banner, it's likely the Quintero family would not have been cited for violating the sign code.
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Wow. That is surreal.
The ACLU is on this guy’s side? Can the end of time be far off?
Not to hijack the thread, but just how are we supposed to “steely” our faith?
What is entailed in the act of “steelying”?
Does it hurt?
Are the effects permanent?
It’s code for the band Steely Dan. And you, of course, where the band got its name?
Actually, I think if conservatives were willing, they’d find the ACLU to support many of their causes. The ACLU loves to agitate, and I think we’d be wise to use them more often, especially for First and Second amendment issues!
I believe you are referring to the automated sex toy of a worthless traitor and quasi-actress who should have been consigned to the ash heap of irrelevance many years ago. Said toy was furthermore the only moderately clever thing in her otherwise undistinguished acting career, proving, as it did, that her capacity for self-gratification far exceeded any other qualities she may have had.
Sounds pretty much like the state of America these days.
Sorry!
(My bombastic pedantry slipped out ..... damn thing is always going off when I least expect it.)
More idiocy coming out of blue states.
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