bigotry is constitutional?

[Tom Wheeler]

From: Dennis <dperrin13 at mediaone.net>
>Mr. Berlet may correct me, but my general take is that the KKK usually
burns
>crosses in a field at night during a private rally or ceremony. The days of
>burning crosses on people's lawns are more or less gone, so far as I know.

The court threw out the convictions of three people in two cases. One
involved the burning of a cross at a Ku Klux Klan rally; the other involved
an attempted burning in the back yard of a black person. While the court was
busy throwing out the cross burning cases, a university student was charged
with burning the U.S. flag, a misdemeanor in Virginia. Apparently, burning
crosses on black people's lawns is "protected speech" while flag burning
remains a crime. - Tom

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