Posted on 11/21/2011 11:35:10 AM PST by ReformationFan
San Francisco's new ordinance leveled at pro-life pregnancy centers will face federal court scrutiny. The core of the lawsuit is First Amendment viewpoint discrimination.
First Resort is a chain of pro-life centers filing the case. The group's CEO Shari Plunkett claims the Pregnancy Information Disclosure and Protection Ordination was "crafted to target one or two specific organizations and carefully shelter from its scope all groups whose viewpoints the city agrees with."
Paul Suis, a longtime board member for First Resort, explains to OneNewsNow that two layers of the ordinance ensure it could only be applied to pro-life pregnancy centers and not to abortion facilities.
"There's a 14th Amendment violation of equal protection because it singles out one group and favors it over another," he adds. "Again, that's related to the viewpoint discrimination theme."
(Excerpt) Read more at onenewsnow.com ...
I’d had it with Seattle politics and finally left this year. If I’d lived in SF I would have left a couple of decades ago.
It’s smart to leave Sodom while you have the chance.
Liberals cry and protest over animal cruelty yet block people trying to save babies.
The mental illness and evil of Liberalism is astonishing.
How can they justify that?
ya..if you’re not killing babies, you can’t advertise to help pregnent women....
Conservatives should run ads with that theme!
Scratch a leftist, find a tyrant underneath.
Sodom by the Sea is so consistent and predictable. You’ll never see them accidentally do the right and moral thing.
100% correct - it's right there in section 93.3(f) of the ordinance.
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