Even a dork in a t-shirt in high school is now channeling God. Some kid puts on a t-shirt attacking gays, abortion, and Islam, and the school is supposed to let him do it because it's "religious discrimination" not too, according to the radical right.
Fine. We ought to raise money and print t-shirts for everyone else in the school that say:
1. God loves gays
2. Evangelical Christians are bigots
3. Pro-lifers hate America
I'm a Christian, and I think God agrees with me on every point. So clearly I'm speaking for God, or at the very least, this is my religious view that cannot be censored. So if some enterprising kid at the school wants to fight back, let's do it :-) Hell, someone should do it anyway at their own school, anywhere.
From the radical right propaganda organ, AgapePress:
...An Ohio seventh-grader wore a T-shirt to school earlier this fall that displayed a Bible verse as well as his viewpoint on homosexuality, Islam, and abortion. But school and district officials in Thornville deemed the apparel "offensive" and "potentially disruptive," and have prohibited James Nixon from wearing the shirt to school ever since. On Monday (December 6), the Alliance Defense Fund filed a federal lawsuit against the school district on behalf of the young student, alleging viewpoint discrimination. The case is "clothed in censorship," says ADF-affiliated attorney Frederick Nelson of the Orlando-based American Liberties Institute. "Everyone agrees that no disruption has taken place," he notes. "The Constitution does not permit censorship based upon what someone thinks 'might' happen." School officials had determined that the message on Nixon's shirt violated the district's Student Code of Conduct -- but Nelson says that is not the case. "[O]ther students wearing clothing in clear violation of the policy were allowed to remain in school and were not disciplined in any way," he points out. "Nixon has been singled out for his particular viewpoint, and that's not constitutional." He adds that school officials cannot treat religious speech as "second-class speech." ADF is involved in a similar lawsuit in the San Diego area in which a student was barred from wearing a T-shirt that expressed his religious views on homosexuality.
