Thursday, June 05, 2008

Minnesota School Harasses Sixth Grader for Wearing Pro-Life T-shirts

They singled him out for ridicule in front of his classmates, removed him from class, threatened him with suspension:

"A pro-life sixth grader has been "ridiculed and threatened" on numerous occasions by his school's administration for wearing t-shirts expressing his pro-life beliefs. The Thomas More Law Center, a national public-interest law firm, announced today that it has filed a federal lawsuit defending the Constitutional rights of the boy.

The sixth grader, referred to in the lawsuit as "K. B." because of his age, is a Christian who believes that abortion is the wrongful taking of an innocent life and a grave offense to the Law of God.

School officials, including the principal and several teachers, on over a dozen occasions during April 2008, told "K. B." not to wear the t-shirts, publicly singled him out for ridicule in front of his classmates, removed him from class, sent him to the principal's office, forced him to turn his pro-life t-shirt inside out, and threatened him with suspension if he did not stop wearing the offending pro-life t-shirts....

Brandon Bolling, the Law Center attorney assigned as lead counsel stated, "The Supreme Court has held it permissible for public schools to limit student speech only when there is an actual and substantial disruption of school activity. That is not the case here. The only people who took issue with the Pro-Life t-shirts were the school's employees - in fact, if any one caused any disruption, it was the school's employees, by their constant public harassment of our client because they disagreed with his pro-life message."

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

It kind of boggles the mind that adults would treat a child that way. Wonder if the treatment would be the same if it were an adult (as in on of their peers) that wore the shirt in school?

Anonymous said...

if he wore a muslim shirt the school would have praised him

Anonymous said...

Hello Good Gentles All!

One can always tell how poor and indefensible the other side's position is by observing how hostile they are to any form of debate or criticism.

A well reasoned and defensible argument not only accepts debate but welcomes it.

The histrionics of the pro-abortion side only serves to demonstrate the inferiority and indefensibility of their position.

Pax,

InFides

Anonymous said...

The very dangerous and destructive virus of political correctness is already out of control here, and in other countries as well. One of the most effective ways to combat the leftist fools who subscribe to this nonsense is to take their money via lawsuits. Ironically, it's one of the favorite (and most successful) tactics of the left! As i've said before, PC is a greater threat to our freedoms and our way of life than is terrorism.

Anonymous said...

In the old days, Dad would have "fixed" the problem.