Ethics

FFRF Files Suit Over Billboard Removal

By Ed Brayton

The Freedom From Religion Foundation has sued the city of Rancho Cucamonga over their actions causing a private sign company to take down a billboard they had contracted for that said "Imagine no religion." You can see the full complaint here. I'm a little baffled by a couple of things in it. First, they're asking for a jury trial, which I think is a bad move. A judge is much more likely to be amenable to their arguments than a jury.

Second, they should also be suing the sign company that took it down. They had contracted for and paid for the billboard for two months and it was only up a week when it was taken down. That's a pretty clear breach of contract. The allegations against the government, however, seem pretty compelling to me:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 01, 2008 (boomark / email).