I’m in your camp on that one. It’s bad public policy to auction off any kind of advertising or political speech space on license plates — because they are inarguably official state documents. Whatever is depicted on them is a government endorsement of that idea.
Anyone who disagrees with that should try getting a plate with a religious symbol, or the Republican elephant or Democrat donkey. You can’t. Because it’s a government endorsement of those ideas.
But the government should be forced to fly the flag of the rebellion that cost hundreds of thousands of Americans their lives, because “free speech?” How about the flag of Japan? Or Germany?
There is no room in the United States for any flag but the American.
I guess it’s a good thing you don’t live in Virginia, then, because the sons of confederacy already have s plate here.