The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago has agreed with a lower court that an ordinance regulating distribution of religious literature is unconstitutional.
In 2006, a district judge ruled that Granite City, Ill., violated the First Amendment when it prosecuted Donald Horina for placing pro-life literature and Gospel tracts on cars outside an abortion clinic. The Thomas More Society and the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) represented Horina.
“Religious liberty has been vindicated and expanded as a result of this ruling," Jason Craddock, who has worked with the Thomas More Society and ADF, said in 2006. “The Constitution requires that citizens be permitted to distribute pro-life and Gospel literature freely, not only near the abortion clinic in Granite City, but wherever the public may otherwise engage in the free exchange of ideas.”
