Four South Windsor students sent home for anti-gay T-shirts

AP ^ | 4/16/05

[Clint N. Suhks]

SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn. -- Four South Windsor high school students were sent home Friday after T-shirts they wore bearing anti-gay slogans caused disturbances, students and school officials said.

The boys, who wore white T-shirts with the statement, "Adam and Eve, Not Adam and Steve," say their constitutional right to free speech was violated.

"We were just voicing our opinions," said Steven Vendetta, who made the T-shirts with his friends, Kyle Shinfield, David Grimaldi and another student who was not identified by the Journal Inquirer of Manchester. "We didn't tell other people to think what we're thinking. We just told them what we think."

Other students say they felt threatened by the shirts, which also quoted Bible verses pertaining to homosexuality.

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Vendetta said the idea for the T-shirts was in response to an annual Day of Silence earlier this week. The project was organized by the national Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network.

... Vendetta and his friends, who oppose civil unions, wanted to make their feelings known. The state House of Representatives passed a civil unions bill on Wednesday.

"We felt if they could voice their opinions for it, we could voice our opinion against it," he said. "There is another side to this debate, and we're representing it."

[ArGee]

I'm a thespian, and I have no problem with the t-shirts.

Forsooth, methinks this is but a natural reaction. The knaves which do practice buggery know their behavior doth offend both G-d and man. It is but their insecurity made manifest by the feet ensconsed in their mouths.

Shalom.

[ArGee]

Wow! I had thought up, "a$$holes are for turds" but yours is funnier.

Shalom.

[cookcounty]

" If the School had a day of silence ON SCHOOL GROUNDS then these boys have a Constitutional right to wear their T shirts on school grounds. "

Usually, the school does not officially sponsor this, but some students start it, encouraged by the Vast Gay-Wing Conspiracy among the staff, and use the school's communication network to spread the word. It's an idea that appeals to students' tendency toward rebelliousness, so lots of straight kids join in the spirit of the thing. Nobody to my knowledge has ever been disciplined for it.

[ArGee]

What happened to the three "R"s at school?

2005 style? Reading, 'Riting, and Rimming.

Shalom.

[knuthom]

The gay community has appropriated the rainbow as their symbol. Recall that God said in Genesis 9 that the rainbow was a symbol that he would not destroy the creatures of the earth with a flood again. I would like to see shirts featuring a rainbow and the statement:

The rainbow is a symbol of God's mercy for sinners

[ArGee]

What good for the Fruit is good for the Straight.

No it is NOT and nobody is sticking anything in my anus except during the course of my annual proctology exam.

Maybe they think it's good for them, but my anus is definately an OUTIE.

;)

Shalom.

[ArGee]

A federal appeals court said that is not treasonous or threatening to the President, so why would homosexuals feel "threatened"?

Here's how it works.

I say, "Homosexuality is wrong."

Somebody hears me and thinks, "Wow, I should go beat up a faggot since homosexuality is wrong."

Therefore, my statement that homosexuality is wrong is threatening.

I didn't say it was logical. This sequence of events was made up by men who like to stick their penises in other men's anuses and call it sex. Don't expect logic from them.

Shalom.

[Rca2000]

I have an answer for you(and I am SURE I will be called a "homophobe").

IMHO, the blame for all of this perverted lifestyle goes to those who were in positions of power, in, say the mid-60's, when all of this garbage got started. Back then, IF some brave individuals had stood up, and said we are NOT going to stand for all of this ###T, (IINCLUDING the feminist and ant-Chhristian lifestyle), and squashed these movements while they were still small, THEN, we would not be in a losing-ground position we are in today. Instead, they (those in power in churches, governments, etc), listened to the "Christians should stay out of politics, and such, leave that to us, and just worried about "trying to stay popular with the in crowd", while the forces of evil gathered strength. Now, 40 or more years later, Christians and conservatives face a growing opposition to a NORMAL, decent lifestyle, because of the inaction of the previous generations. I was unable to do anything, I was not born, till '67.But, since i have been 16, I have been involved and interested in things political, including spreading the word about Reagan's second campaign, to all I could at the time.

[ArGee]

I have an answer for you

My answer is slightly different.

The Church is broken. It is no longer able to be salt and light in our culture. The reason? The Church is listeneing to everyone except its leader regarding how it ought to carry out its duties.

With the exception of John Paul II, who I believe was a great man of G-d (and I am not Catholic), and a few others, we've been listening to men rather than to Jesus Christ.

The result is a nation in moral chaos.

I would apply 2 Chronicles 7:14 here, except we should not be praying for our nation, but for the Church Herself.

Shalom.

[bootless]

Oops - forgot a few words! It's a miniature golf course with a great soft-serve ice cream stand.

[andyk]

LOL - mmmm, soft serve!

[GeekDejure]

I have an answer for you (and I am SURE I will be called a "homophobe").
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Hello there, Are See Eh 2000... it's GeekDejure here...

Well, I certainly won't call you a "homophobe"...

but then my opinion is surely biased, because

I AM A WOMAN LOVING HOMO SAPIAN MALE !!! ;-))

[GeekDejure]

What happened to the three "R"s at school?
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They've been modified over time, but they're still there:

Rape ... Robbery ... Regurgitation of liberal puke !!! ;-))

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[upchuck]

Another post, same topic. More info. Including the queers crying in the school office over the "horrible" T-shirts.

[kidd]

I have inside information.

My son is a Senior at South Windsor High School. He knows 2 of the 4 kids who were kicked out, one of them he knows well.

He said the vast majority of students were angry at school officials for kicking the students out. He said that there was very little problems until school officials became involved. He said that most of the ruckus came from supportive students when the t-shirt wearing students were being escorted out of school.

The sprinting coach on the track team is a priest. The unnamed student is on the sprinting team, as is my son. The sprinting coach expressed praise for the kid.

[Nam Vet]

You're saying that not responding in any class to any teacher or student is not disruptive in and of itself?? As far as I'm concerned, each of those losers should get an unexcused absence, with attended consequences, for that behavior at least!

Nam Vet

[stevio]

It's all good. The more unPC the better.

[Clint N. Suhks]

Very Interesting

[gidget7]

awwwwww poor babies, felt threatened!! What about everyone else, who feels threatened these days, all day, every day, no matter where you go, and yes even school, by the radical homosexual political activists groups who have set up camp in the.

Say they didn't feel safe because of Truth t shirts, is a bold face lie.

[gidget7]

There is nothing wrong with the shirts. Only fabricated feeling of feeling unsafe or threatened. If truth scares them, perhaps it's because they and running from it, and need to hear it!!

On the other hand, there is something seriously wrong with a political activist groups functioning inside of schools, and the message they bring into them!