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terrya (1000+ posts) Thu Nov-11-10 12:30 PMOriginal messageIllinois School RefusesTo Discipline Students Who Wear 'Straight Pride' T-Shirts And this occurred during gay bullying prevention week. Anyone with contact information to this school, please post it. I'm ready to unload some serious ****ing anger over this crap.Three students at St. Charles North High School in suburban Chicago decided to wear "Straight Pride" T-shirts to school during the school's "ally week" on Monday. "Ally week" is meant to raise awareness about anti-gay bullying.The St. Charles Republican reports: Michael Fairbanks, president of the St. Charles East Gay-Straight Alliance, sent out an e-mail to the media last night saying a group of St. Charles North boys came to school yesterday with shirts that read “STRAIGHT PRIDE†on the front and “If a man lay with a male as those who lay with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination and shall surely be put to DEATH,†a Bible verse from Leviticus 20:13.“Students were greatly offended,†Fairbanks said in the e-mail. “Fellow classmates are saying gay people should be put to death because they are gay. Who wouldn’t be offended?â€St. Charles Community Unit School District 303 spokesman Jim Blaney said once the building administrators became aware of the shirts, the three students wearing them were called into the deans’ office to discuss the matter. They were sent back to class and later were called back for a second discussion.
dsc (1000+ posts) Thu Nov-11-10 12:37 PMResponse to Original message3. minus the Bible verse the first year the GSA I advise dealt with the same issue the first year we had a Day of Silence. It was intimidating but I think, in the final analysis, it is a free speech issue. With the Bible verse it might well cross a line.
BanzaiBonnie (1000+ posts) Thu Nov-11-10 12:40 PMResponse to Original message5. This is not a matter of being offended This is about someone calling for the death of another person.If this happened in a school, at the very least they should have made those students change their shirts.Calling for the death of another person is not free speech.
