My Free Speech in My Front Yard but Your Church in My Back Yard?

My Free Speech in My Front Yard but Your Church in My Back Yard?

Special Lecture | This course is completed

Maynard Street Hanover, NH 03755 United States

Filene Auditorium

New Lecture

10/26/2019 (one day)

9:00 AM-12:00 PM EDT on Sat

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Dr. David Bisno will discuss with us the present hot and contentious issues in Hanover:

1. How do the town’s Sign Ordinances square with the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of Free Speech (signs on lawns and street right-of-ways)?

2. How do their Zoning Ordinances square with the capitulations that are being asked of the town and its Zoning Board? Are we justified in the expectation that the town’s zoning laws will protect our quiet neighborhoods in the face of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the Religious Land Use Act and the desire by some in our community to erect large sanctuaries in quiet residential neighborhoods (ie: Greensboro Rd.) claiming their right to the “Free Exercise of their Religion”?

The historical basis for the federal and local laws will be examined and the results of similar challenges in similar communities will be reviewed.

The morning will be informative, encouraging to some, bothersome to others. Once informed of the facts, discussion by attendees is expected to be lively, civil and relevant. Coffee and refreshments (sedatives and tranquilizers?) will be served.

Bisno, David

David Bisno, MD, retired ophthalmologist, earned his BA from Harvard College, an MD at the Washington University School of Medicine, and a Dartmouth MA in the history of science. For 26 years, David has developed and presented a myriad of courses within institutes for lifelong learning here at Dartmouth, across this country, and overseas. Responding to the present worldwide concern that Vladimir Putin could endanger all of us with nuclear weapons, David will help us understand an important - and terrifying - story.