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Woman Not Allowed To Wear Pro-Life Pin in Federal Building
February 8, 2010

 

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Article:

It seems that this past Saturday, a woman who had participated in the March for Life in Washington was told by security guards that she had to remove her pro-life pin that she had on from the march before she entered the building.  She was told that you can’t wear religious or political items in a federal building.

…after searching her bag, two guards at the Gallery told her, “You’re good to go in, but first you need to remove that pro-life pin.”

“He was indicating the small lime green pin with the message ‘impact73.org’ and the silhouette of a small hand inside that of a larger hand that I had attached to the lapel of my coat,” Duke writes today.

“The pin, they informed me, was a ‘religious symbol’ and a symbol of a particular political cause and it could not be worn inside a federal building,” Duke continues.

“Why, I asked, can I not wear a religious or political symbol inside a federal building? Bringing to bear the full weight of the supreme law of the land, the guards informed that it was a violation of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution: The combination of me, wearing a pro-life pin, in a federal building was a violation of the separation of church and state,” she explained.

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http://www.cc.org/blog/woman_not_allowed_wear_prolife_pin_national_art_gallery