yup, it seems that a few states now offer license plates supporting a specific sexual act. I wonder if we'll ever see threesome license plates or love-doll license plates? can't make up this stuff http://www.thecarconnection.com/new...rolina-offer-license-plates-for-lgbt-equality
I don't think they should have either. OK, support education is understandable, even save the whales or turd flicker etc when you begin to have plates supporting one particular method of sex is when it crosses the line. License plates should not support any sexual method
I think all of these specialty plates are idiotic. There should be just standard, government issued plates. If you want to flaunt your religion, sexual orientation, or abortion stance on your car, buy a god(*)(*)(*)(*) bumper sticker.
They might have those plates in Texas too since we recently jumped on the (revenue-producing) personalized plates bandwagon and I doubt if the folks at the DMV know what LGBT means.
I don't agree. License plates should have nothing relating to the drivers sexual orientation, their political beliefs, their religion, or their stance on abortion. They are simply a number which identifies the car, and the driver. Nothing more.
My main concern is that a car could be vandalised because of the plates stating sexual orientation. That's why I don't believe those plates, nor any others, should be allowed - just the old, regular ones.
Judge Rules S.C. Not Allowed to Issue License Plates With Cross Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,573785,00.html#ixzz1jxUCtgji A federal judge ruled Tuesday that South Carolina can't issue license plates showing the image of a cross in front of a stained glass window along with the phrase "I Believe." U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie's ruling said the license plate was unconstitutional because it violates the First Amendment ban on establishment of religion by government. Within hours, a private Christian group said the ruling doesn't stand in the way of its "plan B" to get a similar plate issued using a state law that permits private groups to issue tags they design. The fight over the plates started shortly after Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer helped push the legislation through in 2008. Groups including Americans United for Separation of Church and State and American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee challenged the state's ability to put a religious message on a state license tag. The Rev. Barry W. Lynn, Americans United executive director, said government must never be allowed to give favorable treatment to one faith above others. "That's unconstitutional and un-American. Some officials seem to want to use religion as a political football," Lynn said, calling it an "appalling misuse of governmental authority, and I am thrilled that the judge put a stop to it." Currie ordered the state to cover those groups' legal expenses. Her ruling singled out Bauer after he pushed a tag Christian advocates sought in Florida, but legislators there did not approve. Bauer wanted to accomplish in South Carolina what had been unsuccessful in Florida, Currie wrote: To "gain legislative approval of a specialty plate promoting the majority religion: Christianity. Whether motivated by sincerely held Christian beliefs or an effort to purchase political capital with religious coin, the result is the same. The statute is clearly unconstitutional and defense of its implementation has embroiled the state in unnecessary (and expensive) litigation." Bauer said he wasn't surprised by the ruling and would like to see it appealed. "I don't expect anything different from a liberal judge who was appointed by Bill Clinton," Bauer said. "If she wants to single me out, so be it." Bauer said it "once again shows how liberal judges are not just interpreting the law but making legislation." But the Palmetto Family Council will try to get the tags on the cars faster. The council registered "I Believe" as a group's name with the South Carolina Secretary of State in March as the license tag case simmered on Currie's docket. "This is day one for that process," said Oran Smith, the council's president. "If we meet all the requirements, which I hope we would as an organization, we would certainly want to move forward very quickly with our own 'I Believe' tag." No design had been settled on, but Smith likes the cross and stained glass design in the tag Currie nixed. It "makes the kind of statement we'd want to make," he said. Americans United hasn't taken a position on the council's new plans to get the plate produced, legal director Ayesha Khan said. "It is a different thing because it would be privately initiated," she said, but there may remain legal challenges for the state Department of Motor Vehicles handling such a tag. And what of Bauer's call for an appeal? "They're just squandering public dollars," Khan said. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,573785,00.html#ixzz1jxUIL5Yq This judge needs to try the unclench thing. _
Good point. Maybe after they have their car trashed, the gays will wake up and realize they're not very bright to advertise their sexual orientation since there's still a lot of gay bashers out there....
This is the difference between you (and me) and the socialists: you (and I) call it a "method". The socialists call it a lifestyle and that makes it okay plus, it demonizes us for not being TOLERANT of them. Have you read the latest story about the Greeks making pedophiles, arsonists and sadomasochists (among others) part of the disabled population and therefore receive government checks the same as other disabled people? It's not like they are bankrupt or anything.... it's not like the EU and the IMF (which our tax dollars support by about 17%) aren't going to have to bail them out. Plus they get foreign aid from us, too. Who's to say that our tax dollars aren't going to pay for some or part of these "disability" checks?
It is the same with everything, though. If you have conservative plates, you could find your car vandalised by a liberal, if you have atheist plates, you car could be vandalised by religious people and vice versa. License plates are not there to express your political beliefs or your sexuality. If you want to do that, why not buy a bumper sticker?
the only difference between a gay male and me is the sex of our sexual partners. Why in God's name does that need to be on a license plate? Will the incest crowd be next?
I'm sure you could get NRA plates... as well as NBA and NAACP. But I doubt if you could get NAMBLA plates. Even if you got 'em, doubt if you'd get to keep 'em very long.
When it's determined that incest is a "lifestyle choice" then it will be fair for anything. I hate to say it, but I think that's a viable circumstance, if we continue on the progressive/communist course we are now on. Just as the move to make pedophilia a "lifestyle choice" as opposed to a CRIME, and that movement is going on in America right now. It appears to have already happened in Greece.
I am at a loss. Is it because Texans are not particularly bright and do not know what a common acronym stands for? Or is it because Texans are in denial that there are LGBT folks in Texas? Because even I know, all the way out here in California, that there is a thriving alternative lifestyles community in Texas.
Recently Texas said no to the Stars and bars plates after rights groups claimed it would be offensive. No religion, no Southern pride...but flaunting your sexual behavior is A-Ok. America...right down the crapper.
that is where political correctness has taken us you can't flaunt your religion but feel free to flaunt how you have sex. In fact, if it's gay sex, the govt will make the flaunting even easier
I personally can't imagine it's a big money maker. LGBT people make up a very small % of the population. I think it's all about liberal idiots pushing their agenda. How about a bestiality plate...will that be next?
