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Article: Court to Rule on Religious Speech Case
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 14, 1995
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WASHINGTON The Supreme Court set the stage Friday for a key
religious speech ruling, agreeing to resolve a dispute over a cross
erected by the Ku Klux Klan near the Ohio Statehouse as part of a
Christmas display.
The court's decision, expected by July, could help clarify a
murky area of law: the right of private citizens to display religious
messages on public property.
The justices voted to review a ruling that required Ohio
officials to let the Klan display the cross in a public park near the
Statehouse in downtown Columbus during the Christmas, 1993, season.
A federal appeals court ruled that in any public forum "the