Free Speech is restored in one town...


	Free Speech is restored in one town...

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7-19-2007 11:13 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/15cb5603-0262-4d5c-aa2a-5f4c697aaaa9/0BD68CB0-576D-488F-AC9C-FE251D2DFE37/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/07/free_speech_back_after_ordinan.php" href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/07/free_speech_back_after_ordinan.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.onenewsnow.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/07/free_speech_back_after_ordinan.php">A Jacksonville, Alabama, man who was prevented from speaking on a public sidewalk about his faith while using a speaker for amplification has won the repeal of a city ordinance that was responsible. The repeal was part of a settlement in the lawsuit he filed in U.S. District Court over the incident.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/07/free_speech_back_after_ordinan.php">In March 2006, Wesley Sewell, an ordained minister, was sharing his faith on a public sidewalk using a ten-inch speaker when he was told by local police he was in violation of the city's noise ordinance because he could be heard more than ten feet away.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/07/free_speech_back_after_ordinan.php"><P>Jacksonville's speech policy was so restrictive, it prohibits any amplified sound that can be heard ten feet away -- which covers nearly all speech that exists."</p> <P>ADF says as part of the settlement, Jacksonville officials agreed to a permanent injunction barring future enforcement of the old ordinance, and passed a new, less-restrictive law that will allow Sewell and others to share their faith publicly, with or without amplification.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0BD68CB0-576D-488F-AC9C-FE251D2DFE37/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>