[Protagoras]

Well, isn't that too sweet! I vote for sending her to another country.

I guess it's a good thing we don't have a democracy in this country where the majority could vote to send a person to another country for holding views contrary to theirs.

The girl is fifteen years old and thinks like it. She is wrong, IMO, but her views should not subject her to the loss of her first amendment rights. Whether or not she is allowed to do certain things on school time is an entirely different matter.

She is just looking for attention and is almost certainly apeing the views of one or the other of her parents. My guess is that very few would join her club in any case.

People have died to insure that unpopular opinions can be expressed. I would assert my second amendment rights in defense of her uninformed and wrong-headed opinions.

[ThinkDifferent]

You said it. Her ideas are moronic, but the solution is not to censor them but instead to refute them with facts and logic.

[Whilom]

You're right, as always, TJ. Scarier than an adolescent desperately seeking attention are the adults who give it to her.

[BruceS]

Thanks. Couldn't have said it better myself.

She has the absolute right to express unpopular opinions but she does not have the right to disrupt the school. She should also expect that if she expresses unpopular opinions that the other citizens in her town will let her know their opionions (the First Amendment also applies to those who disagree with her). Any ridicule she gets should be from the populace in general, not from authorities. And she shouldn't be subjected to violence.