Ethics

Pennsylvania Business Name Rules Challenged

By Ed Brayton

Here's an interesting church/state court case. A man in Pennsylvania is suing the state for not allowing him to register the name of his business, a film company, as "I Choose Hell Productions." Pennsylvania law says, "An association name may not contain words that constitute blasphemy, profane cursing or swearing or that profane the Lord's name." Sounds like a pretty blatant constitutional violation to me.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on February 27, 2009 (boomark / email).