Posted on 05/09/2015 7:07:07 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Students at Bangor Area High School in Pennsylvania were encouraged by the schools Gay-Straight Alliance to wear rainbow-colored T-shirts on Friday of last week in support of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender issues.
Instead, two students wore Chick-fil-A T-shirts. Suspensions followed on Monday. But those who were suspended may surprise you:
[The school] suspended a group of students for using Twitter during school hours to call out two students wearing Chick-fil-A shirts during a Gay-Straight Alliance event, parents and students said.
The suspended students felt the T-shirts were offensive because of widely publicized comments the fast food companys president and CEO, Dan Cathy, made in 2012 against gay marriage. The two students were part of a televised broadcast of the schools daily announcements. Offended students took to Twitter to express their thoughts, with the tweets against the two students continuing over the weekend.
One student tweeted to another who had criticized one of the students who wore the shirts:
Youre expressing your feelings Why cant he? The response:
Being an offensive [expletive] is not expressing your feelings. One of the suspended students tweeted:
Shout-out to the [expletive] in the Chik-fil-A shirts. The mother of the that suspended student weighed in with her opinion as well:
You want to encourage everyone to be their own person, and for someone to decide its OK for those two students to go on a morning show and wear a shirt like that with no repercussions, what is the school saying? That its OK? Perhaps the school was saying those students had every right, under the First Amendment, to wear the shirts?
Now the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania is investigating the suspensions, calling them a pretty harsh punishment.
So, who was right and who was wrong here? The students who wore the Chick-fil-A T-shirts? The students who harassed them throughout the weekend? Bangor Area High School for suspending the harassers?
Let us know what you think.
The addiction has been on-going for me since the Chick-fil-a debacle. You don’t really become un-addicted to free republic. You just remember to go to work, and pay your electric bill, and DSL bill otherwise NO free republic.
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But Morgan Hill is not a part of the USA.
My Alma Mater Pen Argyl High School plays Bangor in High School Football every year.
I've been here since last century. Last day of 1999 I think..
It's been a while since I checked.
/johnny
Why, are the Philadelphia Eagles a bunch of disease-ridden, child-molesting whack-jobs?
You must be thinking of Penn State.
Wearing a Chick-fil-A T-shirt is the same as saying ‘Kill all gays’
They should be outlawed.
The First Amendment doesn't protect death threats
When will we setup concentration camps for those who opposed gay marriage? Those folks exploit our tolerant society.
Get YOUR children out of the government indoctrination centers - NOW!!
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i made a point to wear orange or red shirts on st pattys day at high school.
aussi
Ben & Jerry’s is very expensive for a little pint of ice cream.
They suspended the faggot kids for their tweets? Wow.
Well Olivia... the outcome from these students asking other students to wear rainbow colors seems to be more of a compelling than an asking. So, do you wear your rainbow colors when asked?
Being an offensive [expletive] is not expressing your feelings. One of the suspended students tweeted:
isn’t being homosexual offensive to muslims. So this homosxual day needs to stop!!
Yes, this is disturbing
Punishing them for ‘speaking out’ about others anti-tolerance
Why do we allow those who deny global warming, err climate change, and who are against gay marriage to live?
Its anti-tolerant.
The students wore the t-shirts because the gays provoked them so it’s ok.
We had 11 kids suspended here for “liking” a video of some kid tearing one of those pro-gay posters off the wall at school. Not for commenting in anyway, just for “liking” a video on Facebook. I got into it with some idiot in the local comments section and he kept spouting about “hate speech”, when in reality he just didn’t want to look at the free speech issue. I didn’t even argue against the right for homosexuals to be homosexuals, I only argued that those opposed to it have as much right to free speech as those that support it. I finally gave up talking to the guy because it was apparent that he was completely unwilling to discuss why his free speech was more valuable than their free speech.
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