Free speech has become no speech in Polk County, Florida.

Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus won't be making any more legal appearances on the lawn of Polk County's administration building.

The County Commission on Jan. 11 voted unanimously to close the "free-speech zone'' that it created less than one year ago.

The free-speech zone was implemented last year after a church group in December 2004 built a Nativity scene on the lawn of the Neil Combee Administration Building without county permission. In the zone, individuals and groups were allowed to express themselves with displays or other forms of expression.

Care to guess why they decided to end a policy that facilitated the exercise of a fundamental civil liberty? Because of the objections of a so-called civli liberties group.

In late 2005, the American Civil Liberties Union and two co-defendants filed suit against the county over policies in the zone they think are unconstitutional.

After the suit was filed, county officials suspended some of the free-speech-zone regulations as part of a temporary agreement with the ACLU.

I guess the ACLU only supports freedom of for the speech they like.

Commies, Nazis, and Klansmen -- shout it out loud.

Christians -- Shut the f*&% up!

Earlier posts at Stop The ACLU