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  • It's the Day of Silence, So Shut Up! (Ithaca "suburb" school bans "Great to Be Straight" shirt)

    04/27/2006 3:31:46 PM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 36 replies · 1,510+ views
    Wall St Journal-Best of the Web Today ^ | Thursday, April 27, 2006 3:51 p.m. EDT | BY JAMES TARANTO
    Last week we noted that the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had upheld a California school's authority to ban T-shirts protesting the "Day of Silence," an annual pro-gay event. Now a school in Trumansburg, N.Y., is following suit. John Swanhart, a 17-year-old senior, "and some friends decided to print 'Straight is Great' and 'Adam and Eve Not Adam and Steve' on T-shirts and wear them to school in response to the National Day of Silence,": Cosimo Tangorra, superintendent of Trumansburg schools, said he supported the decision of high school officials to send the students home. "It seems to me...