[wagglebee]

The leftist judiciary will come up with anything to protect infanticide!

[wagglebee]

Pro-life Ping!

[Stellar Dendrite]

But...but...I thought the left wanted free speech??

[Alexander Rubin]

This isn't even an abortion matter. This is trampling free speech yet again.

[Begferdeth]

Well, he did say they wouldnt let the pro-abortion groups hand out anything either. So I guess its fair at least.

[YoungHickey]

It's a school. They should be there to learn, not to debate.

[wideawake]

I guess the pro-sticking-scissors-into-the-skulls-of-unborn-kids crowd didn't feel they could counter with progagnda as strong.

Perhaps they could discuss those mythical "victims of back-alley abortions" from the "bad old days" when mothers weren't allowed to kill their own children.

[savedbygrace]

So this judge said the policy that prohibits the girl from handing out pamphlets is unconsitutional, but the judge still prohibited her from doing it?

I'm so confused.

[spunkets]

It's a public school. The 1st Amend guarantee of free speech applies.

[kittymyrib]

Killing babies and gay marriage are the two sacraments of the Left. They believe in them with religious fervor.

[Grn_Lantern]

This is the appropriate result, in my opinion, according to supreme court jurisprudence. As long as it's a blanket prohibition on distributing any and all pamphlets, that's a content neutral restriction on free speech. Additionally, schools have been held by the Court to not be public forums for speech, since restricting speech there can serve an important government interest (you know...kids learning to spell).

Just a comment on the jurisprudence...nothing more...

[nmh]

But it's okay to have "a day of silence" for persecuted "gay" people and have the school sneak the kids off to a planned parenthood clinic for birth control stuff.

[Aquinasfan]

"Permitting pro-life and pro-choice literature to be distributed by students in the school hallways would turn the school hallways into a battlefield," Covington wrote in the order.

Right. School is about killing time, not pursuing truth, particularly with regard to life and death issues.

Imagine interupting algebra class for this!

[taxesareforever]

saying the divisive issue could turn the hallways into a "battlefield."

But indoctrination is permissible and is not a devisive issue. So, who are the intolerant ones? Of course, the ones who would turn the hallways into a battlefield.

[Melas]

I don't see the leftism here. The ruling is spot-on. If you give one side of the debate the freedom to distribute pamphlets, you're going to have to allow the other side the same opportunity.

[Tax Government]

There is always the public sidewalk, outside the school.

[topher]

I wonder if this school teaches sex education with the premise that if you get pregnant, then abortion is the thing to do...

If they teach sex education, this student should have the right to show both sides at the school, and not the Planned Parenthood side (who openly endorsed John Kerry with Federal Tax dollars).

[bvw]

I agree with the judgement. Schools are not open free speech zones. There is a need for order and decorum the authority of the Principal to set as his will with reason.

[Lexinom]

"Permitting pro-life and pro-choice literature to be distributed by students in the school hallways would turn the school hallways into a battlefield," Covington wrote in the order.

That's funny. Aren't the sex-ed classes and the school clinic which refer young girls to Planned Parenthood for birth control, or taking care of their little "problems", pro-abort in their bent?

It's only a battlefield, I suppose, if both sides are presented.

[goldstategop]

If she wanted to hand out NOW leaflets explaining how choice is being pro-feminists, there would be no need for school censorship. Its just like the skrools and black-robed despots to join to protect young charges from ideas that might be dangerous to the liberal agenda. I can't say I'm surprised at how this ruling came down.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[little jeremiah]

later pingout.