A little more detail
here.
I love who filed to have the law declared unconstitutional:
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"The whole problem with the law Judge Currie ruled on was that the Legislature passed it, and the state then produced the license plate. The plate was therefore an expression of the state - not a private organization," said Aaron Kozloski, one of the winning attorneys. He is local counsel for Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
Bauer also attacked Currie for awarding fees to the victorious lawyers.
But Kozloski said judges often order the loser to pay legal fees of the winner.
"That's standard procedure," Kozloski said. He said the winning attorneys would have to compute the fees.
Bauer said Currie's ruling discriminates against Christians.
"When you can express yourself as a non-Christian, and not as a Christian, there's a real disconnect," Bauer said. "The laws of our country are being abused."
The lawsuit was brought by [The Rev. Neal Jones, ...pastor of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Columbia]; the Rev. Thomas Summers, a retired Methodist minister from Columbia; Sanford Marcus, rabbi emeritus of Tree of Life Congregation in Columbia; and the Rev. Robert M. Knight, pastor of First Christian Church in Charleston. Joining them in the suit were - the nonprofit Hindu American Foundation and the American-Arab-Anti-Discrimination Committee.
The defendants were Marcia Adams, director of the Department of Motor Vehicles, and Jon Ozmint, director of the Department of Corrections, because prison inmates make the license plates.
Neither Adams nor Ozmint had any comment.
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Christians, Jews, and Hindus all agreed that Andre Bauer is an idiot.
Reverand Jones stated that he was not surprised, as he could tell the legislation was "blatantly unconstitutional".
And he's not even an elected official who ought to know better.