Posted on 05/19/2005 8:33:42 PM PDT by SmithL
Los Angeles -- Student journalists sued their Bakersfield high school district Thursday in an effort to keep the school's principal from censoring student newspaper articles on homosexuality.
The suit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, requests an emergency order to allow the paper to publish the stories in The Kernal's year-end May 27 issue.
"The Kernal staff, along with the gay students we interviewed, we have lost our voices," said the paper's editor in chief, Joel Paramo, a plaintiff in the case filed in Kern County court.
East Bakersfield High School Principal John Gibson said he blocked publication because he is worried about violence on campus.
"It's not about gay and lesbians. It's about student safety," he said.
Paramo, however, said the principal's decision "regrettably sends the unmistakable message that school officials would rather students keep closeted about their sexual orientation."
California's education code allows schools to censor student publications if articles are obscene, libelous or slanderous, or incite students "as to create a clear and present danger."
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Just don't mention God. That's not covered by free speech.
But the ACLU won't lift a finger to help those that try to speak out against homosexuality.
Let's see if they let any anti-homosexual views be published.
NO this is a SCHOOL newspaper. There are more than enough cases which fall in favor of the school being able to control the content of a school paper.
A school paper is a function of the educational process, not a vehicle of acess to children.
These homosexual experimenting children have no place in the school and quite frankly SHOULD keep their desires to play with the genitals of members of the same sex IN the closet. It adults are involved they sould be prosecuted.
I never got these resume-padding opportunities when I was in high school. No Child Left Behind must be working.
The public school system has become a dangerous institution. It has become an insane assylum with the ACLU as it's head mistress. The best thing you can do is get your kids into private or home schooling. Period.
Why gays think I can about their sexual orientation is beyound me.
I tend to think that gays in general are very insecure and need to constantly tell everyone about who they prefer to have sex with as some means to help them overcome their insecurities.
The principal is (and should be) permitted to prevent violence through preemptive action.
This is just GLSEN propaganda. They KNOW they can't go in and say how much fun homosexuals have and describe the specific sex acts, so they create the fake safety issue.
The homosexual are trying to create a unaguable "for the children" scenario. Nobody is FOR violence against children so GLSEN and the sex clubs argue about violence. They would get no traction advocting sexual recrutment of the pre-consent aged.
Nah... that would be discrimination and hate speech!
Who cares? Does anyone want to read about my heterosexual life? Hell, I wouldn't even read that article. But the fact remains that if the article does not incite violence, it has to be printed.
It is not illegal to offend someone.
A student newspaper is not a "public forum," but a learning experience for students. Hazelwood is the standard.
"In January, 1988, the United States Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier. The decision upheld the right of public high school administrators at Hazelwood East High School in suburban St. Louis, Missouri, to censor stories concerning teen pregnancy and the effects of divorce on children from a school-sponsored student newspaper."
The homosexuals are trying to make the same argument. What it really boils down to is the homosexuals are saying that unless they are allowed to openly recruit children the "repressive atmosphere" will cause hatred of deviant sex.
I do paraphrase but it is the logical extention of the GLSE fake anti-violence effort.
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