Buttons with profanity at Georgia Capitol spark lawsuit
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A civil liberties group is demanding that police on the Georgia Capitol grounds allow demonstrators to wear Planned Parenthood buttons that include profanity.
In a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union says two women who oppose legislation that would ban some abortions wore pink buttons that included the profanity as part of a slogan.
The lawsuit says Capitol police ordered both women to remove the buttons March 7 and that officers told others that items with "curse words" weren't allowed because children were present.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Georgia Department of Public Safety Capt. Mark Perry says the agency will abide by whatever the federal courts decide.
The ACLU cites a Vietnam-era U.S. Supreme Court ruling that a man had the right to wear a jacket using profanity to refer to the draft while in a courthouse.