Do church signs clutter the right-of-way
more than political signs do?
As the oral arguments progressed last Monday at the U.S. Supreme Court
in Reed v. Town of Gilbert, Ariz., the justices focused on the
questions which, once answered, will clarify the First Amendment issues
that this case presents.
The case involves a temporary sign ordinance in Gilbert that treats
signs differently depending on what they talk about. Political signs
get the best treatment — they can be as large as 32 square feet,
unlimited in number in the right-of-way, and can stay in place up to
five months before an election. In contrast, directional signs, like
those of Pastor Clyde Reed’s church, can only be a smallish six square
feet (two by three, for example) and can only be up 12 hours before the
event to which the sign pertains.
This means, for Pastor Reed’s 10 a.m. church service, the signs cannot
go up until 10 p.m. the night before. Obviously, darkness does not
enhance the ability of people to see the signs inviting them to the
church service.
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Student journalist Daniel Mael on free
speech and the campus culture war
“the fact that black people have not
burned this country down is beyond me” - November 25, 2014
“i have no sympathy for
the nypd officers who were murdered today” - December 20, 2014
“lmao, all i just really
dont have sympathy for the cops who were shot. i hate this racist
f***ing country” - December 21, 2014
- Brandeis junior Khadija
Lynch’s tweets, as reported by fellow student Daniel Mael on Truth
Revolt
Daniel Mael, a 22-year-old student journalist at Brandeis University,
first reported on fellow student Khadija Lynch’s tweets in the
aftermath of the death of NYPD Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos.
Lynch, a junior, had served as an undergraduate department
representative in the university’s African and Afro-American Studies
Department — until Mael’s reporting led the department to ask Lynch to
step down.
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