Posted on 03/07/2007 6:49:41 AM PST by jacknhoo
You are assuming that the 9th Circuit is ignorant. I would instead assume that it is completely informed and wholly nefarious.
CFR?
Thanks. I was aware of the issue (McLame-Slimegold) but hadn't seen the acronym used as such.
"Earlier this week, San Francisco's United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in the matter of Good News Employees Association v. Hicks that the municipal employers can completely censor the terms "natural family," "marriage" and "family values" as hate speech."
Most likely coming soon to the entire country in which you live! :(
"Shockingly, the court concluded that the interest of Christian employees in speaking out on the issue of marriage is "vanishingly small" and that the "administrative" interests of a city are more important than speech rights. The court completely failed to address the concerns of the appellants with respect to the fact that the City of Oakland's Gay-Straight Employees Alliance was openly allowed to attack the Bible in widespread city e-mails, to deride Christian values as antiquated, and to refer to Bible-believing Christians as hateful."
I see the left's hypocrisy. It's PC to offend anyone involved in deviant sexual practices, but it is ok to for the city to openly attack Christians. How sad is that? I guess the First Amendment only applies to what is acceptable by the left.
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