Today's lesson: Ohio school district must allow student to wear T-shirt with religious message

Alliance Defense Fund ^ | 8/18/05

[Integrityrocks]

Thanks for posting what the shirt said. I like it!

[JoJo48]

When my daughter was in HS 3 years ago, the old tshirts with messages that were allowed there the sports teams of the their school or the names of colleges.

Anything else what forbidden and notes were sent home. That even even included the logo for Major League Sports Teams (too disruptive).

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

... I think schools should ban any clothing with writing on it. Political messages are usually provocative and certainly distracting,...

The provocation is more with the teachers and administrators in the pork-barrel public school system. If you take the T-shirts away from the students, you take away the one and only effective means to combat the former Students for a Democratic Society, the 1960's college communists now in control of our schools. In your face slogans are a tactic the Left uses effectively. The Right should be accorded the same right. Bravo for the judge.

[Dante3]

If T-shirts are allowed, certainly religious messages should be allowed.

However, students should not wear T-shirts to school. There should be a dress code or uniforms. Among others, it would eliminate a huge amount of distractions, lawsuits, controversies, etc.

[loneroofer]

on teaching math, English, science, and history instead.


I only wish they would do just that . If the curriculum were so straightforward we would more than likely not be having this discussion. The environment in the schools has become such that there exist deep divisions . These are not social or economic but divisions in thinking.They are only making their identity known to those who are like minded.Not necessarily seeking to offend These divisions have been if not created by the present curriculum at least encouraged.

[AgThorn]

front of the shirt says:

INTOLERANT
Jesus said . . . I am the way, the truth and the life.
John 14:6

The back of the shirt contains the following statements:

Homosexuality is a sin!
Islam is a lie!
Abortion is murder!
Some issues are just black and white!

[nicmarlo]

As am I.

[Old Student]

Lots of good stuff happening in the People's Republic of California, these days. Check out the article in this thread for another one...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1462119/posts

[dukeman]

You just wanna show the girl in the tank top again.......

[JoJo Gunn]

That's right. Score one against GLSEN/NAMBLA's offensive and potentially disruptive "day of silence".

[RedBeaconNY]

My bad... both very similar stories. Good for Ohio, though.

[spunkets]

" Leave the t-shirts at home and spend the time and energy on teaching math, English, science, and history instead."

The kid wouldn't be wearing the shirt if he wasn' being taught and exposed to the opposite. He came with a message on a tee-shirt. History...Ahh yes, that would include American history, including the 1st Amendment's protection of Free speech. It would also include socialist countries use of uniforms and sanctions to force conformity. This time the court stood up for what's right. In contrast, it did not when it came down upholding the campaign rules.

[jwalsh07]

"Other students' mere disagreement with the message on James' T-shirt is not enough to outweigh James' constitutional right to free expression," Smith added

Halle-freaking-lujah. All messages or no messages within the bounds of local obscenity laws.

[RightWhale]

When I was in school the idea of messages printed on clothing was nonexistent. That was more than three years ago.

[Old Student]

"You just wanna show the girl in the tank top again......."

Guilty as charged. I just KNOW there is some lonely GI out there who is perfect for her. Pass it around to you military friends, will ya? Heck, there's probably some lonely GI out there that she'd be perfect for, too. Getting married steadies the GI's down. Ran into one of my troops about 5 years after he left Nellis, he'd made Staff Sergeant, gotten married, and had 2.5 kids. He'd also been a hell-raiser as a young guy. Who knows, maybe I have other ulterior motives, too... :)

[Zeroisanumber]

Waste of time and money. I was against it when I was a kid, but school uniforms make more and more sense to me as I get older.

[dukeman]

I'm pretty much where you are on the issue, but I do like it when free speech is vindicated.

[Zeroisanumber]

Yar.

[spacewarp]

I KNOW you military types can be prescise, but 2.5 kids? That's just toilet training by gunpoint to be that particular. ;)

</sarcasm>

Paul

[little jeremiah]

later pingout.