and viewpoint-neutral. See id. 5 . The policy is now spelled out in the new "Special Plates” regulation, which provides that certain combinations of letters will not be ■issued, including, inter alia, a "[cjombination of letters[ ] or numbers with any connotation, in any language, that is vulgar, derogatory, profane, scatological, or obscene.” Vt.Code R. 14-050-025 I.(f)(1). See post note 9. 6 . Perry counters that the fact that one must own or lease a motor vehicle in order to apply for a vanity plate does not defeat her argument that a vanity plate is a public forum. While it may be true that a public forum need not be available to everyone in the general public in order to be so designated, see, e.g., Widmar v. Vincent, 454 U.S. 263, 267-68, 102 S.Ct. 269, 70 L.Ed.2d 440 (1981) (<HOLDING>), Perry's argument misses the essential point.
holding that establishment clause did not require public school to bar evangelical christian student group from using facilities accessed by various other groups holding that a university creates a public forum when it makes its facilities generally available to registered student groups holding proper remedy when a christian student newspaper was denied student activities funds was to make funds available to the religious paper not to deny funds to nonreligious student groups holding that where university has opened its forum to other similar student groups its denial of recognition to homosexual student group was the sort of viewpoint based discrimination forbidden by perry and was invalid under the first amendment unless the university could support this discrimination by providing a compelling reason for its actions recognizing a university campus as limited public forum