Indiana's Gay License Plate Survives

Early this year Indiana approved a specialty license plate to benefit an LGBT youth group. That, of course, sent the American Family Association into a screaming fit and a bill to ban all such plates was shortly submitted. But for this year at least, the gay youth plate has survived its recall attempt.

Indiana House lawmakers have abandoned a plan to clamp down on specialty license plates. Republican Ed Soliday, of Valparaiso, pulled the measure during an evening session tonight just hours before a key deadline in the 2012 legislative session. The plan would have curbed an expansion of specialty plates that the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles has awarded to groups including the National Wild Turkey Foundation and the Indiana Youth Group, which supports gay youth.

Soliday says he'll try again next year. (Tipped by JMG reader Betty)