Free Speech and the Right to Disagree

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If a high school gives students permission to openly express their support of homosexuality, then why shouldn't other students be allowed to voice their disapproval?

A federal court judge in Chicago might have to answer that question after a high school student in Naperville, IL, a suburb southwest of Chicago, filed suit charging that her civil rights were violated by school officials by not letting her wear a pro-heterosexual T-shirt last year.

Neuqua Valley High School's refusal to let Heidi Zamecnik, 17, wear a T-shirt saying "Be happy, not gay" on the back and "My day of silence, straight alliance" on the front was especially egregious because it came on the same day that the school permitted other students on the national "Day of Silence" to openly express their support of homosexuality.

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This is a good thing. It allows all of us to discuss the issue. Freedom for one is freedom for another. :3

-- Bridget