(April 19, 2014 at 3:53 pm)Heywood Wrote: Suppose David Duke put a license plate on his car that read:But you can put BAPTIST
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Would his car get torched? While you might own the car you don't own the plate. The state realizes there are assholes in the world and doesn't want to have its property used to incite those assholes towards violence.
If this atheist really wants to express her atheism....she can purchase a bumper sticker so her ability to speak is not impinged.
In my opinion the state should either allow all speech on its plates and accept the consequences thereof, or not allow its plates to be used for speech at all. Playing a guessing game of what speech is okay and what isn't is just ripe for abuse.
I think that's the reason she's upset.