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The Ku Klux Klan's history of murdering and terrorizing blacks is not reason enough for Missouri highway officials to exclude a Klan group from the Adopt-A-Highway Program, a federal judge has ruled. It was the latest in a string of court losses for the state Department of Transportation over the issue. In a 27-page ruling signed Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry said it is a violation of free speech rights to ban groups just because they discriminate. She pointed to an earlier appeals court ruling that said requiring 'the Klan essentially to alter its message of racial superiority and segregation by accepting individuals of other races, religions, colors and national origins in order to adopt a highway would censor its message and inhibit its constitutionally protected conduct.' The attorney for the state, Milton Spaulding, had argued that the rule was based on a concern that the state might face liability for any public backlash to the Klan's participation. But Perry said that was not enough cause to deny the group its rights...
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