{"id":6896,"date":"2006-06-28T22:25:18","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T22:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/choose-life.html"},"modified":"2006-06-28T22:25:18","modified_gmt":"2006-06-28T22:25:18","slug":"choose-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/choose-life.html","title":{"rendered":"Choose Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of days late on this one.. Supreme Court declines to hear pro-life license tag case<\/a><\/p>\n

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A federal judge had found that Tennessee’s tag wrongly promoted only one side of the abortion debate, but the decision was overturned by an appeals court.<\/p>\n

Justices have refused in the past to deal with similar disputes. Last year, the high court let stand a lower court ruling that said South Carolina’s license plates, which bear the slogan "Choose Life," violate the First Amendment because abortion rights supporters weren’t given a similar forum to express their beliefs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A weblog on the site dedicated to promoting the Choose Life plates nationwide has various stories.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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