Posted on 11/06/2007 6:30:25 PM PST by Libloather
Teen’s antiabortion club gets green light
Virginia high school officials recently gave a green light to a teen’s request for a once-banned after-school antiabortion club, the Washington Post reported.
"We just wanted the same rights as other clubs," 16-year-old Stephanie Hoffmeier told the Post. "It's not a radical thing to expect equal treatment."
Stafford County, Virginia, school officials initially denied Hoffmeier’s spring request to host the club, which opposes abortion and promotes sexual abstinence, saying the club was not associated with school curriculum. Hoffmeier filed a lawsuit in September contending the decision violated her free-speech rights because other clubs with religious or political missions existed at Colonial Forge High School.
"There is a discomfort with religious speech in the schools, even when it's engaged in by students, which should not be the case," David Cortman, a lawyer with Arizona’s Alliance Defense Fund, which assisted Hoffmeier, told the Post.
School officials reversed themselves, and Hoffmeier dropped the suit. About 20 people attended the club’s first meeting.
We can be certain that the pro-life teens will not name their club “anti-abortion.” The simple descriptive term, “pro life,” does not appear in the approved lexicon of the MSM.
I’m not really for it, but I think conservatives should seriously consider filing lawsuit as a main tactic in the culture war.
“It’s not a radical thing to expect equal treatment.”
Tell that to the girl in California that tried to start a caucasian club a few years ago. She ended up having to switch schools because of her treatment. Equality for all! (except the majority)
But ironically white men aint even the majority any more.
In truth we never were when you look at world population.
And to think despite being a true minority we were able to control the world.
Doggone we were good !
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