The state legislature worked quickly to stem to onslaught of fuzzy big chicks, hens, and roosters. You guessed it, Sue Lowden the Chicken for Health Care Bartering lady is behind
this infringement on our freedom of speech and peaceful expression, they were mellow – if sweaty and itchy poultry from all accounts. Apparently Lowden felt that her message was somehow being trivialized by costumes or even chicken themed buttons at or around the polling places. It’s rhetorical to ask how her message could become more trivial than it was fresh from her fevered brain. Nevada now boasts the only law in the nation banning chicken-themed items at polling places. Congratulations on keeping it weird, Nevada!
On a more serious note, it gives one pause, when this peaceful yet perhaps questionable display was quickly outlawed. We have had the Westboro Baptist Church in our midst for what
seems an eternity. Made up of patriarch Fred Phelps, his daughter Shirley Roper Phelps, and their extended family from hell, the "church" must keep their noisy hate filled displays at a distance, but it’s not far enough. The family and friends of fallen soldiers who happen to be homosexuals can still hear and see them all too well, during their final good-byes. Children join in the evil festivities, parroting their parents. Sadly, we can’t do as much to stop their hate-filled harassment, as we already have done to ease Sue Lowden’s embarrassment on one day of her life.