Public gagged at city’s homosexual festival
St. Petersburg, FL officials are sticking with plans to limit free speech at the city’s homosexual festival this weekend after fighting off complaints they are creating unconstitutional “free speech zones.”
Instead, the city will limit some signs and banners to an area “adjacent to the Permitted Street Closure Area.”
The issue is that generally, court opinions have held “free speech zones” do not meet requirements of the First Amendment. So the city is no longer calling the area a “free speech zone,” although it still is marked as the “FSZ” location on an event map.
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56433

Congress Votes for $4,400 Pay Raise
Despite low approval ratings and hard feelings from last year’s elections, Democrats and Republicans in the House are reaching out for an approximately $4,400 pay raise that would increase their salaries to almost $170,000.
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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/6/28…

Welcome to the beginning of the end of Christianity in America.

US Senate to open with Hindu prayers

History will be created when a Hindu prayer will be recited at the opening of the US Senate in Washington DC on July 12. Rajan Zed, a Hindu chaplain, said that he had been officially asked to say the prayer. He said he believes this may be the first time any Hindu prayer is delivered in the Senate since its formation in 1789.

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/US_Senate_to_open_…