Posted on 04/27/2006 3:31:46 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Last week we noted that the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had upheld a California school's authority to ban T-shirts protesting the "Day of Silence," an annual pro-gay event. Now a school in Trumansburg, N.Y., is following suit. John Swanhart, a 17-year-old senior, "and some friends decided to print 'Straight is Great' and 'Adam and Eve Not Adam and Steve' on T-shirts and wear them to school in response to the National Day of Silence,":
Cosimo Tangorra, superintendent of Trumansburg schools, said he supported the decision of high school officials to send the students home.
"It seems to me kids are being discriminating," Tangorra said. "It makes people uncomfortable. It's like if someone was wearing a white supremacy T-shirt."
Tangorra said he had been contacted by high school Principal Paula Hurley earlier in the school day about problems that could potentially arise from the shirts, but by 4 p.m. had not received any phone calls from parents or students.
"Living in a free society, people can't feel threatened to live any way they want to be," Tangorra said. "School districts need to be one of the safest, if not the safest, place for students to expand their thinking."
It seems to us, though, that if such heavy-handed censorship is necessary to promote "liberal" values, there's something wrong with those values.
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But I guess it's ok if the Christian students feel threatened by the pro-gay activities.
Hilarious. School districts are for students to be indoctrinated into good little socialist cogs.
Soooo, being straight is evil now? Or is it okay to be straight still, but heterosexuality is subject to a "dont ask, don't tell" policy now, while homosexuality is not?
So making people uncomfortable is discriminatory? What's the difference between having a "Gay Pride" week and having a "White pride" week? After all, gays and whites are born that way, right?
A bigoted superintendent that doesn't know simple grammar. They should get rid of him.
Uh, hmm...that statement has many problems. First, sometimes people feel things for no good reason. Second, if the society is free, then shouldn't that leave people free to criticize opposing ideas? Third, for a group that thrives on a false phobia charge against its opponents, it's hypocritical for them to make any point using the emotional "feel threatened" excuse.
You shouldn't ask liberals complex questions like that. It will make their heads explode. On second thought, that might not be so bad (if a little messy).
i saw one of these silly asses prancing down the street last year with black electrical tape X across it's mouth while i was stopped at a stopsign. i ask it "What's that mean... NO SUCKING today???" it was yelling it's head off as i pulled away. so much for the silent treatment...
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Cosimo Tangorra, your an IDIOT!
Eat this: 'It's great to be an American!'
It's not his grammar that's the problem, it's his knowledge of word meanings.
If I say "It seems to me that x is being discriminating," I am attributing to x well-honed (aesthetic) sensibilities in whatever narrow context my utterance is made, but I am speaking grammatical English. (Were I to want to attribute the same fine aesthetic sensibilities to x more generally, I would say, "It seem to me that x is discriminating.")
Those kids got stones.
But they will allow perverted "T" shirts and Islamic religious attire.
Proudly announcing your sexual orientation as heterosexual is equivalent to white supremacy, but for sodomites it is called "Gay Pride"!
What contorted logic.
You dont understand, Its ok for straights to feel threatened by faggots who are being quiet, but it isnt ok for the fags to feel threatened by a T-shirt.
Can I wear my, "Hip to be Square" shirt there?
MORE Day of Silence garbage plus abridgement of free speech.
The Superintendent is seen here at a recent "Diversity Awareness" festival wearing the ceremonial garb of a member of the Pochahinie Tribe. (:^*)
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