[Note: Friends of Justice is a personal blog. I speak only for myself.]
“I’ve said it many times before — these sex offender cases are of the deepest importance, not because of any special concern we might have for convicted sex offenders but because they’re the despised minority du jour, subject to the harshest treatment that legislators and law enforcement officials can dream up, and unless the courts stand up and make it clear that there are lines the government cannot cross without running afoul of the Constitution, government action will become more and more abusive, and then all of our rights are at risk. A shame that the NC court didn’t view things that way.”
Read the op-ed by David Post in the Washington Post.
This doesn’t even begin to tell the story in NC.
Can’t practice your religion if your church has daycare or Sunday school.
Have restrictions on residences and can be denied by any landlord.
Have restrictions on public events.