PA ACLU sends letter requesting reasons why permission denied

(OIL CITY, Pa.) - Last month, members of the Fifth District Peace Project requested permission from the Oil City Library to build a small display marking the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq.
Two members who live in Oil City requested a small display “of books and other reading material the library already owns.”
Interim library director Sharon Duarte and city manager Tom Rockovich turned down the request. Oil City Mayor Sonja Hawkins argued, “Just a ‘no’ doesn’t do it."
The Pennsylvania ACLU sent a letter to the interim library director and to the mayor requesting the library’s reasoning. “We understand that other groups have been permitted to display their materials in the library, so it is not clear why the Peace Projects request to display materials about the Iraq War has been denied,” they wrote. “ Accordingly, we request that you provide us with the library’s reasons for denying the Peace Project’s request. Because the Project would like to set up its display before March 19 --the anniversary of the start of the Iraq War -- please respond before February 8, 2008."
To read the article in the Oil City Derrick, click HERE [1].