Well ... that assumes that (1) the acceptance of the monument was coupled with a decision by the city to commit the "monument" space in the park to a government expressive them, and (2) the Court's rationale (apart from its declaration that this applies only to monuments) can be so limited.
Randy Bezanson -----Original Message----- From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Scarberry, Mark Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 7:39 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Summum Parks, streets and sidewalks have never been seen as forums for placement of permanent monuments by anyone who wished to do so. Now, if the city prohibited you from holding an anti-Ten-Commandments-monument rally in the park, next to the Ten Commandments monument, we'd have more to talk about. Mark S. Scarberry Pepperdine University School of Law -----Original Message----- From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Bezanson, Randall P Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 5:18 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Summum I'm late to the discussion, but the opinion left me wondering what every happened to "parks, streets and sidewalks" as the historic fora for free speech under the First Amendment? Can the government simply eliminate a park from traditional public space for speech by the expedient of claiming that it is in control of, or the author of, speech in a park (monument or not)? If so, what's left of public spaces presumed by tradition to exist under the First Amendment? Randy Bezanson (with apologies if this has already been discussed). University of Iowa _______________________________________________ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others. _______________________________________________ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
