Teen Gay Rights Group Sues For Own License Plate

Friday, 24 September 2010 | by Pat's Picks

You can support breast cancer awareness and juvenile diabetes research, but in Indiana you can’t support gay teens—at least not on your license plate. The Indianapolis Star says a group for gay teens has been denied the right to make a specialty plate twice by the state’s DMV.

The group is now in court, suing the agency for using “arbitrary and unconstitutional standards” for deciding which groups can have specialty license plates and which cannot. The DMV counters that the group’s mission does not have a state-wide impact and that profits from the sale of the plates would go to pay the salaries of staff members.