PUNTA GORDA, Fla.—It’s been said that you can’t legislate morality, but one small Southwest Florida city is trying to do so and, in the process, may have violated the First Amendment rights of residents and visitors alike.
Andrew Sheets, a resident of Punta Gorda, has racked up fines for displaying obscene speech on his person. The matter has caught the attention of The Rutherford Institute, a nonprofit civil liberties organization based in Virginia. The institute is defending Sheets’s right to political expression under the First Amendment.
