Does a municipality's policy of restricting speech on the basis of religious freedom violate the First Amendment?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Charette v. Town of Oyster Bay, 159 F.3d 749 (2nd Cir. 1998):
Municipal "regulations enacted for the purpose of restraining speech on the basis of its content presumptively violate the First Amendment." City of Renton v. Playtime Theatres, Inc., 475 U.S. 41, 46-47, 106 S.Ct. 925, 89 L.Ed.2d 29 (1986).
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