Private groups receiving federal money to fight AIDS overseas cannot be forced to “pledge allegiance” to US government policies, the US Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
The 6-2 decision strikes down part of a 2003 law that requires such groups to denounce prostitution and sex-trafficking, according to the Associated Press.
Four groups that work in Africa, Asia and South America had challenged the provision in the law.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
"If people can’t trust not only the executive branch but also don’t trust Congress, and don’t trust federal judges, to make sure that we’re abiding by the Constitution with due process and rule of law, then we’re going to have some problems here." - Barack Obama, June 7, 2013
I have to say, I agree with the administration on this one.
ZitatHe said (Roberts) the groups challenging the law feared that “adopting a policy explicitly opposing prostitution may alienate certain host governments, and may diminish the effectiveness of some of their programs by making it more difficult to work with prostitutes.”
So what?
This poppycock line of reasoning sound purely political to me.