Posted on 12/22/2004 11:53:59 AM PST by kattracks
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A teenager is suing her school district for barring her from the prom last spring because she was wearing a dress styled as a large Confederate battle flag.The lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court claims the Greenup County district and administrators violated Jacqueline Duty's First Amendment right to free speech and her right to celebrate her heritage at predominantly white Russell High School's prom May 1. She also is suing for defamation, false imprisonment and assault.
"Her only dance for her senior prom was on the sidewalk to a song playing on the radio," said her lawyer, Earl-Ray Neal.
Duty, 19, is seeking actual and punitive damages in excess of $50,000.
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Duty, now a college student, said school officials told her before the prom not to wear the dress, but she didn't have another one and decided to see if administrators would change their minds.
According to her lawsuit, she was met outside by two police officers and principal Sean Howard. She said the principal intimidated her by striking the vehicle she was in.
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The Sons of Confederate Veterans has promised to help pay some of her legal expenses.
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Which goes back to my first statement:
"to back down from your principles in the face of adversity, is nothing more than surrendering to the will of others. "
If the administrator is religious and was 'principled' in his personal beliefs no amount of law suits would make him back down.
Irregardless of school 'policy'.
Sorry, working to posts at once.
Strike the 'religious' part.
You are similarly mistaken in your own history. While Kentucky was not officially in the confederacy, it's sympathies in the war were split right down the middle and both sides controlled various parts of the state during the war. Kentucky's legislature officially declared itself neutral in the fight but the state sent thousands of soldiers into both armies.
Come on.
This is the United States.
Everybody KNOWS free speech only applies to homosexual radicals, communists, NAMBLA, atheists, illegal invaders, and nutjob Islamofascists.
It doesn't apply to any other classes.
Sort of like an extension of the "protected class" philosophy used in Affirmative Discrimination.
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