Sign has no place in S.L.

I was recently shocked to learn that a white-supremacist group purchased advertising space on a billboard on State Street and 1700 South. While the billboard's message stating "Securing the Future for European Americans" sounds quite innocuous, the National Alliance's Web site paints a picture of an extremist, anti-Semitic, racist, fringe group.

I concede that this organization has the right to free speech. However, that right does not guarantee them the ability to purchase advertisements from a private company. The company that owns the billboard — Liberty Marketing — made a conscious decision to sell advertising space to this neo-Nazi organization.

Vanessa Pierce

program director

HEAL Utah