March 18, 2004

WELL, ABORTION IS PROFANE:

School Strips Teen's Pro-Life Tee-Shirt; Attorney Demands Redress (Jim Brown, March 17, 2004, AgapePress)

A Virginia public high school is being threatened with a lawsuit for telling a student that his pro-life T-shirt is equivalent to profanity.

For the past two and a half years at Denbigh High School in Newport News the student has been wearing a sweatshirt that says "Abortion is Homicide. You will not silence my message. You will not mock my God. You will stop killing my generation. Rock For Life."

But the school's assistant principal told the pro-life teen the message on his shirt violated a school rule that prohibits students from using obscene or profane language. He was told not to wear it to school again, even though he had been doing so without incident going on three years.


Nice pun though.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 18, 2004 5:42 PM
Comments

Why do school principals keep thinking they can defy the Supreme Court? This issue is settled, and in the student's favor (unless the school forbids ALL t-shirts).

Posted by: jim hamlen at March 19, 2004 8:00 AM

Stories like this get my dander up - like this.

Posted by: Jeff Brokaw at March 19, 2004 8:28 AM

Brokaw:

You speculated in the linked article about "what will this kid be like in another 10-20 years?"

Probably the same lesson I really learned in my High School Days (regardless of what they thought they were teaching us):

Any nail that sticks up gets hammered down. Hard

Posted by: Ken at March 19, 2004 12:38 PM
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