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School settles over pro-life T-shirts
Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow - 11/8/2008 4:10:00
The Thomas More Law Center has claimed victory in a case in which school officials violated a student's free-speech rights.
Center attorney Brian Rooney says the 12-year-old sixth-grader in Hutchinson, Minnesota, wore pro-life T-shirts, designed by the American Life League, to declare his belief that abortion robs an innocent person of life and is an offense to God.
"He had a plan to wear them for a month straight, and he did wear them for a month straight," Rooney explains. "But during that month, he was continually and constantly harassed by teachers and the principal, constantly pointing him out in the classroom and in the cafeteria and in other places, telling him to turn his shirt inside out, not to wear the shirt again."
In a press release by the Thomas More Law Center, a national public-interest law firm whose services are free of charge, Rooney contends the school threatened the student with suspension if he kept wearing the pro-life T-shirts. However, the threats violate the school's policy on free speech.
"The school has a written policy that allows children to wear these types of messages," Rooney adds. "It says [students may wear them] as long as the messages do not cause a disturbance in the classrooms."
The only disturbance, according to Rooney, was caused by the teachers and principal. School district officials did allow pro-homosexual students to wear T-shirts representing the Day of Silence held each year to promote acceptance of the lifestyle. Thomas More Law Center filed a lawsuit, but the school district has settled out of court and will permit pro-life T-shirts.
The Laws Center celebrates its ability to vindicate the student's constitutional rights and calls it a great victory for both the pro-life movement and First Amendment rights.
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=313166
Better get ready as our self aggrandizing teacher members will be ripping this one too.Guess they're too busy clinging to unions and near Phd degrees to stand up for whats right. Heck who knows,we may even get some more hero shots of the guys with their adoring students bowing down to them . I suppose we could make them feel better by saying in unison"We're not worthy!"
Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow - 11/8/2008 4:10:00
The Thomas More Law Center has claimed victory in a case in which school officials violated a student's free-speech rights.
Center attorney Brian Rooney says the 12-year-old sixth-grader in Hutchinson, Minnesota, wore pro-life T-shirts, designed by the American Life League, to declare his belief that abortion robs an innocent person of life and is an offense to God.
"He had a plan to wear them for a month straight, and he did wear them for a month straight," Rooney explains. "But during that month, he was continually and constantly harassed by teachers and the principal, constantly pointing him out in the classroom and in the cafeteria and in other places, telling him to turn his shirt inside out, not to wear the shirt again."
In a press release by the Thomas More Law Center, a national public-interest law firm whose services are free of charge, Rooney contends the school threatened the student with suspension if he kept wearing the pro-life T-shirts. However, the threats violate the school's policy on free speech.
"The school has a written policy that allows children to wear these types of messages," Rooney adds. "It says [students may wear them] as long as the messages do not cause a disturbance in the classrooms."
The only disturbance, according to Rooney, was caused by the teachers and principal. School district officials did allow pro-homosexual students to wear T-shirts representing the Day of Silence held each year to promote acceptance of the lifestyle. Thomas More Law Center filed a lawsuit, but the school district has settled out of court and will permit pro-life T-shirts.
The Laws Center celebrates its ability to vindicate the student's constitutional rights and calls it a great victory for both the pro-life movement and First Amendment rights.
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=313166
Better get ready as our self aggrandizing teacher members will be ripping this one too.Guess they're too busy clinging to unions and near Phd degrees to stand up for whats right. Heck who knows,we may even get some more hero shots of the guys with their adoring students bowing down to them . I suppose we could make them feel better by saying in unison"We're not worthy!"