Perspective
Dec. 11, 2009
What's Good for Norwalk Isn't Good for Switzerland
Gideon Kanner of Loyola Law School compares the media's treatment of two instances of land-use regulation and the First Amendment.
By Gideon Kanner
"Disgraceful," thundered the New York Times editorial (A Vote for Intolerance, Dec. 1, 2009, at p. A34). Goodness, gracious. What was it that got the Grey Lady so riled up, you ask? It was an exercise in democracy - the Swiss went to the polls and by a 57 percent majority referendum vote enacted a law that forbids the construction of minarets. Not mosques. Just minarets. You know, those tall slender towers adjacent to mosques, from which the...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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