Ethics

Volokh Corrects False Sotomayor Attack

By Ed Brayton

The latest attack on Judge Sotomayor from the religious right is over a case she ruled in called Okwedy v. Molinari (a case I wrote about and apparently got wrong as well; I missed the fact that the appeals court remanded it back to the lower court on the free speech claim). Eugene Volokh picks up on this attack from the Family Research Council and from CNSnews, both of which were wrong in their representation of the case.

The case involved a billboard taken out by a minister that used Bible verses to criticize homosexuality. A local politician contacted the billboard company to complain about it and the company pulled down the billboard, which prompted a lawsuit on both freedom of religion and freedom of speech grounds.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on July 14, 2009 (boomark / email).