ACLU to Appeal Pro-Life License Plates in Tennessee

Posted on March 30, 2006

Hat tip: Pirate’s Cove and Public Figures Beware
ViaTenessean

Despite a federal appeals court ruling this month that lets Tennessee put “Choose Life” on license plates, it isn’t clear when — or even if — the tags will ever hit the road.

The American Civil Liberties Union is likely to appeal to the full panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals or to the U.S. Supreme Court, Hedy Weinberg, executive director of the ACLU of Tennessee, said yesterday.

Pirate’s Cove notes:

So, people in Tennessee are performing their Constitutional Right to Free Speech and want the plate. The ACLU, on the other hand, wants to deny said people their Free Speech. Instead of seeing if people in Tennessee want a, say, “Choose Choice” plate, the ACLU will use their Communist Party background to say “Nyet! We will choose your Rights for you.”

Tennessee should not let the ACLU and other groups hold the plates hostage, said state Rep. Glen Casada, R-College Grove.

“They’re playing it too safe,” Casada said. “Just because there’s a chance for appeals, there is no reason to stop what the 6th Circuit said was OK to do. … It’s time to move forward.”

This is absolutely right. Tennesee should fight back.

First of all, the ruling does not allow state dollars to promote one viewpoint while “silencing another.” Nothing in the ruling or in the State’s desire to promote life silences anyone from being pro-choice. Pro-choice advocates have the same alternatives available to them as before the license plates were created.

Public Figures Beware tells why they think the ACLU will lose.
ADF is on the case.
Linked at Argghhh