A lot of people don’t tend to like the First Amendment when it is used to protect others who disagree with them. Go figure.

And goodness knows you’ll never find any god-hating, earth-worshipping kooks vandalizing Hummers, Tahoes, or practically any other car that doesn’t run on hemp. The rhetoric against a belief in God and the religion of this country’s founders, Christianity, seems rather strident given that our constitution, including the freedom of speech, arose from the Christian principles of the 18th century.

“Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.”

Screw any national database.

Yes, but Satan worshippers are Communists.

;-)

A lot of people don’t tend to like the First Amendment when it is used to protect others who disagree with them. Go figure.

…which is probably why we have that amendment.

only once, have i ever come up with one i’d actually be willing to display on my own car – and i made my living, in part, as an advertising copywriter.

about 12 years ago, i was finally in a position to purchase my first brand new porsche. california offers a special environmental-themed design showing the tail flukes of a whale about to submerge and i actually considered getting one of those that read: “wailer”

it was already taken.

Ain’t that the truth. My friend went to school in an upstate NY area. Always one to proclaim her admitted liberal position, she had a “I’m NOT the NRA and I vote, too” bumper sticker on her car. Back then, “I’m the NRA and I vote” was a common bumper sticker. Knowing where she was going, I suggested she might be better off with something less controversial, like “Meat is murder” or “Fur shame”. No, she quoted the first Amendment and was on her way. Two weeks later, her rear window was shot out. She covered her sticker with some flags of communist nations, figuring the gun wielder would be several intellectual levels below Archie Bunker and too stupid to make the connection. She was correct; her window remained intact through graduation day.

Before they were getting nutty about license plates, the super religious were busy burning witches, and punishing scientists who dared to show that sun doesn’t orbit the earth and that mankind evolved from other species.

Anyone who dared put a GO SATAN or NO JESUS license plate on his or her car had better enjoy buying tires with astonishing frequency and appreciate random colors of paint being added to their cars, because you know that the thumpers would go absolutely nuts.

It’s a no-win proposition. The DMV would be accused of being devil worshipers and the ACLU would be blamed for their defense of those godless Communists who dared to express contrary views on their plates.

A lot of people don’t tend to like the First Amendment when it is used to protect others who disagree with them. Go figure.

a lot of Bay Staters think Yankee fans ARE satan worshippers, so I don’t think that would work here, either, and GOSOX would have similar problems in NY

Backstory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXLYoyl6B1s

If someone really was a satan worshipper, then let him put it on his plate. As a christian, I am not offended by someone professing a different belief. OTOH, if the idiot is an atheist, then he is obviously doing it just to be offensive. I an see why others might be offended, but that is their fight.

Under the PC mentality, being offensive is a matter for others to decide. But to me, it’s also a matter of intent. Certainly, one can be offensive unintentionally, but those people are almost always apologetic if their transgression is tactfully revealed to them. OTOH, if some fanatic jumps down their throats over some misstep, they often get defensive and the fight ensues. It’s the PC police that are upsetting public order in most cases, not the original transgressors.

The whole issue is irrelevant given the abundance of bumper stickers on all sides of the issue.

I’m curious if the Bible beaters would have welcomed plates that celebrate Satan or say nasty things about the Christian god. If the DMV allowed plates such as ALLAH#1, JSUS SUX, FUK GOD or SATAN RLZ, they’d probably be quite upset.

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/wtf-pl8s-tmth-4-nc/all-comments/#comments

the plate graces a 2000 Lincoln registered to Pygmy Computer Systems, a Miami company specializing in portable computing devices. Mark Geigel, Pygmy’s president and driver of the gold A55RGY-mobile, said in an e-mail interview that he did not think his “stock issue plate” was such a big deal.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/assorgy1.html

The license plate displayed in the photograph demonstrates how difficult it is to foresee every conceivable problem in this regard, with letters, numbers resembling letters, and the decorative orange that appears in the center of a Florida plate all joining to turn the innocuous combination A55 RGY into something that can be read as the risqué phrase “ASS ORGY.” The photo hasn’t been manipulated, nor is the license plate shown a personalized one (deliberately chosen for its naughtiness or otherwise) — the tag is a random, regular-issue plate assigned to a Lincoln LS automobile registered to a Miami-based computer company. And thanks to the Internet, it’s now one of the most recognizable license plates in the U.S.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/risque/license.asp