Is there a 1st Amendment right to put the rebel battle flag on a license plates?

[Martinus]

I don't really know what Marty was talking about.

Some baker refused to bake a cake for two dykes IIRC.

Yup and they sued her to the tune of $150,000

[Admiral Yi]

Yup and they sued her to the tune of $150,000

Baker was a chick?  They should have just chick-raped her.

[grumbler]

That's clearly false.

The group emerged from the Bible Student movement, founded in the late 1870s by Charles Taze Russell with the formation of Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society, with significant organizational and doctrinal changes under the leadership of Joseph Franklin Rutherford.[10][11] The name Jehovah's witnesses[12] was adopted in 1931 to distinguish themselves from other Bible Student groups and symbolize a break with the legacy of Russell's traditions.

I'm not arguing the issue one way or another (I mean, I could point out the obvious, but what would be the fun of that?  )

I'm just preserving such a spectacularly stupid statement so Raz can't delete it and claim he never wrote it. 

[jimmy olsen]

I know nothing about this case and didn't read the article.  But thanks to my prestigious law school education, I can inform you that there is a 1st Amendment right to *not* display 'LIVE FREE OR DIE' on your license plate if you're a Jehovah's Witness in New Hampshire.  As cool, gnarly, and authentically American a slogan as it may be, not letting the JWs cover it up when it doesn't impede the purpose of the license plate is too closed to forced speech.

That case is mentioned in the article, read it! 

[Razgovory]

That's clearly false.

The group emerged from the Bible Student movement, founded in the late 1870s by Charles Taze Russell with the formation of Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society, with significant organizational and doctrinal changes under the leadership of Joseph Franklin Rutherford.[10][11] The name Jehovah's witnesses[12] was adopted in 1931 to distinguish themselves from other Bible Student groups and symbolize a break with the legacy of Russell's traditions.

I'm not arguing the issue one way or another (I mean, I could point out the obvious, but what would be the fun of that?  )

I'm just preserving such a spectacularly stupid statement so Raz can't delete it and claim he never wrote it.

Why would I delete it?  You've granted my the right to the last word.  I imagine you thought this some sort of punishment, but I have a lot of fun with it.

[Ed Anger]

Do cakes have a sexual orientation.

Molten genderfluid

[grumbler]

Molten genderfluid

Are you talking about your latest dump again? 

[Ed Anger]

Maybe

[grumbler]

Maybe

MAH PRESHUS BODILY FLUIDS!

[Ed Anger]

Me and honey kitten were defecating on each other's chest, while dreaming of a glorious new confederacy filled with glorious white children shitting on each other. Squee! I exclaimed in delight as I smeared a turd of the south on her glorious milky breasts.....

[grumbler]

TMI

[The Brain]

Me and honey kitten were defecating on each other's chest, while dreaming of a glorious new confederacy filled with glorious white children shitting on each other. Squee! I exclaimed in delight as I smeared a turd of the south on her glorious milky breasts.....

You and Lettow should talk!

[Razgovory]

I don't really know what Marty was talking about.

Some baker refused to bake a cake for two dykes IIRC.

Yup and they sued her to the tune of $150,000

Well I guess the government shouldn't get into the gay cake business then.

[Berkut]

If they don't want people to print stuff the government does not like on their plates, then they should not allow people to print anything.

Well, I think they can probably come up with some sort of objective criteria that balances state interests with 1st Amendment rights, but they need to have such a criteria in place, and be able to defend it, rather than "Print what you want, but we might say no. Or yes. Hard to say, really..."

But otherwise they are left with untenable choices - they cannot say "Print anything!" because that will certainly result in someone asking that something be printed that will result in the entire program being shut down.

And they cannot refuse to print things in an arbitrary manner, because that opens them up to hypotheticals like "What if someone says 'Go Republicans' is ok and "Go Democrats' is not?"

[Caliga]

How about just going with "print nothing"?

I mean, people can clutter the back of their car with all sorts of fucking bumper stickers saying they love the Confederacy, Baby on Board, Honk If You're Horny, etc.  Why must they have a special little license plate too?  Back in the day you couldn't do that shit to your license plate and the world didn't end.