10 Nov 2004
In Vegas, an Unholy Alliance (Los Angeles Times)

The ACLU (of which I'm a card carrying member) does some good - despite the fact that their "clients" in this case despise them ... and I'll bet the attorneys for the ACLU don't particularly care for the clients, either, on a personal level.

I don't care for the message being spewed. In fact, I'd probably be one out there arguing with the preachers (or with the war protestors), just for fun). But if you start letting government (or private concerns who own property in the general vincinity) decide what can or can't be said in public, you've opend a can of worms. And aborgated the First Amendment.

Los Angeles Times - LAS VEGAS — The preacher with a hole in the knee of his jeans and a pocketful of prayer cards waded through the late-night crowd — young men with hats on sideways, women in saucy dresses, hired hands passing out fliers for escort services. Tom Griner turned a raised palm toward Robert Jones, a 21-year-old visiting from Illinois.

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