Chardon rescinds punishment for student's pro-life sweatshirt

Cleveland Plain Dealer ^ | 2-5-2003 | John Horton

[Notwithstanding]

Chardon High School administrators yesterday rescinded the punishment given to a student who refused to take off a sweatshirt declaring "Abortion Is Homicide."

Bill Noyes, 17, also will be allowed to wear the sweatshirt to class in the future.

[Notwithstanding]

Bold pro-life student.

Glad to see the principal back down when forced to examine the implications of his action.

[BenLurkin]

Please convey a NorthEast Ohio ping to Mr. H-

[Sacajaweau]

It's definitely a freedom of speech right. That right has been reduced to what may be offensive to someone else for a long time now...what we call politically correct.

Don't say this, don't say that but the Nazi groups can march and the Homosexual groups can "solicit" and the women can now kill babies under the "guise" of ownership. We're definitely at a "good vs evil" in our society.

I'm opting for good old-fashioned morality which produces "order". This liberal society has produced chaos.

[Notwithstanding]

Yes, ordered liberty.

[Blood of Tyrants]

And measured liberty.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Principal Doug DeLong revoked the detention and agreed to let Bill and two offended students work out a solution with the school's peer mediation group

Here is a solution to the terminally offended: GET OVER IT!

[TigersEye]

The hooded sweatshirt is black with white lettering. "Abortion Is Homicide" stretches across the front. The back reads: "You will not silence my message. You will not mock my God. You will stop the killing of my generation. Rock For Life."

This kid rocks!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Here is a solution to the terminally offended: GET OVER IT!

Here's another: "Piss on you."

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Lest there be no mistake: "Piss on the terminally offended"

[rhema]

The most remarkable thing about this Cleveland Plain Dealer story probably isn't the school's capitulation; it's that a newspaper actually used the media-banished term pro-life.

[rhema]

from the There's Hope for the Kids Department: a letter in the February 15 Minneapolis Star Tribune

Life: first among rights

The writers of a Feb. 8 letter about abortion appear to believe that the world is about themselves and their personal liberties.

If the world is about total freedom for anyone to do anything to their bodies, or their homes, or their neighborhood, then what we have is a free-for-all in which everyone's liberty is destroyed except for the strongest of humans.

Sacrificing innocent human lives on the altar of women's liberation is every bit as insane as sacrificing them on the altar of Aztec gods. No cause is worth murder. If any are, then there are no causes worth fighting for. Life is first among our inalienable rights, granted both by the Declaration of Independence and our Creator.

-- James J. Heaney, eighth-grader, St. Paul.

[Notwithstanding]

I bet he is home-schooled!

=:^)

[rhema]

In St. Paul with the last name of Heaney, he could also be a fine young Irish Catholic lad attending a Catholic school like Cretin-Derham Hall, St. Thomas Academy, Archbishop Brady, Hill-Murray, or any of a host of similar institutions.

And maybe he's a light in the darkness at his local public school!