“Thou shall not lie with mankind as with womankind: it is an abomination.”

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madskillz said:

CommunistHater said:

In the case of Okwedy v. Molinari, decided in 2003, Sotomayor sat on a three-judge panel that upheld a lower court’s ruling (from 2001) against Keyword Ministries and its pastor, Kristopher Okwedy. The ministry had purchased billboard advertisements featuring Bible verses that condemned homosexuality.
 
The ads were taken down after a local government official complained about their message to the company that owned the billboard, and Okwedy sued both the company and the government official who wrote the complaint.

http://cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=50678

 

I think the billboard owner should have to give a full refund.  If he wanted to approve each message, before he sold space that is fine  But taking it down after the fact is wrong.

Will I be banned for the thread title?

 

It's actually about free speech. It's not telling you to die and yeah, if they took it down, they should be sued.

No, I doubt you'll be banned for having a Scripture in the thread title.

However, what does this have to do with Sotomayor?

Conservative groups try to show, that Sotomayor is not capable to become a member of the Supreme Court, by searching for cases, where she may have decided in a way they don't like.

In this case, as CommunistHater stated, she ruled that the ad, with the bible verse, was rightful taken down.

The Cons claim, that this was against free speach and anti-religous.

Sotomayor explained that, while the verse used in the ad is in the bible, it's sense is not pure-religous, but political motivated which lets it fall under the general policy against ‘intolerance’ and ‘bigotry’ expressed in New York law and the New York City Administrative Code § 8-101.

 

Judge for yourself why this case from 2003 is brought up now. The linked article is telling it all, so this is just a short summary ^^