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Civil Rights Charge Stands in Assault Case against gay-bashing woman-beater Larry Cirignano
Edited on Fri Jul-13-07 03:37 PM by IanDB1
Friday, July 13, 2007
Gay marriage backer allegedly pushed

By Richard Nangle TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
rnangle@telegram.com

WORCESTER— A district court judge has refused to dismiss a civil rights charge against the former Catholic Citizenship executive director, who allegedly pushed a gay marriage supporter to the ground during an anti-gay marriage rally in December.

Larry Cirignano, 50, of Arlington, Va., is also charged with assault and battery in connection with the Dec. 16 incident outside City Hall.

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Judge Ricciardone wrote, “the state may not require organizers of a rally to include opposing groups as marchers in its parade, but it just as certainly can not prohibit the opposing groups from holding signs along the intended route. In holding her sign at the rally here, the complainant was simply expressing a view contrary to that being generally supported.” In doing so, the judge wrote, Ms. Loy was “clearly and unassailably protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution and by the Massachusetts Bill of Rights.”

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