Sunday, November 29, 2009

Arizona town shows signs of discrimination (OneNewsNow.com)

Arizona town shows signs of discrimination (OneNewsNow.com)

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is asking a lower court to rethink its earlier decision over church signs in an Arizona town.

David Cortman (Alliance Defense Fund)Alliance Defense Fund attorney David Cortman tells OneNewsNow that the decision involves Good News Community Church in Gilbert, Arizona, in a case that has been ongoing for several years.

"In this particular case, Gilbert allows signs to be up for extraordinary lengths of time, including political signs, up for years at a time," the attorney explains. "Yet if a church puts up a sign for its Sunday service, it's only allowed up the night before the service," he adds, noting that it must be taken down immediately after the service is over.

Cortman contends the 12-hour window is not a reasonable amount of time allotted for churches to exhibit their free-speech rights, especially "since it's dark before they're allowed to put up their signs in the first place."

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