The editor of the NWF Daily News wrote a great piece on Heather Gillman's victory:
No one should be surprised by a federal judge's ruling Tuesday that Holmes County school officials violated a Ponce de Leon High student's right to free speech when they told her she couldn't wear a t-shirt expressing support for gay teens.
As Judge Richard Smoak said of his ruling: "I find the core message here is of tolerance and fairness."
Student Heather Gillman sued the school board in October after officials prohibited her from wearing t-shirts she made supporting gay rights. She made the shirts after her 9th-grade cousin, who is openly gay, was suspended with nine other students for disruptions they caused at the school in September.
One student's parent also testified that school principal David Davis told her, "If there was a man in your house and you were going to church, you wouldn't be having these gay issues."
Scroll down for the comments and let the mouth breathing begin!!!:
A T-shirt that has a pro-gay message is free speech, a T-shirt that has an anti-gay message is hate speech. So we can assume that anything that’s politically correct would be acceptable. Anything the liberal idiots that run the schools don’t like is politically incorrect and would therefore be unacceptable.
While free speech and association are fine for other places and situations, a school is not one of those places.
only thing allowed on a shirt in school should be a collar and a pocket to avoid this
Well, then what would solve these problems? Allowing these kids to distract each other more and more will not help things. They need to learn to wait until college to make a big political stink.
A simple fix for this problem: Two words: School uniforms.
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