Posted on 11/06/2013 8:00:20 AM PST by Kip Russell
Isaiah Smith is no stranger to crusades.
He’s spoken out on gay rights before, last year appearing before the Keller City Council on the need for an anti-discrimination ordinance.
But when the 18-year-old Birdville High School senior spoke out for gay rights in class this week after he said he was bullied — ripping apart his Bible to make a point — it earned him a three-day suspension.
Smith said the suspension is unfair and that he intends to sue the district to remove the disciplinary action from his record. An attorney from the American Humanist Association has taken on his case for free.
“At my high school, some kids like to say that being gay is a sin and that you can’t be gay and Christian,” Smith said. “I wanted to bring my Bible to school and interpret the books of Leviticus and Romans, because they are often used to bully gay people.”
Mark Thomas, a spokesman for the Birdville School District initially said that, while federal law prevents him from talking specifically about what happened, any student who disrupts the learning environment will be disciplined according to the BISD Student Code of Conduct.
But later Thomas added that Smith’s suspension had nothing to do with the passages in the Bible but with the student’s behavior.
Thomas said that the district, after hearing about Smith’s claims that he was being bullied, has initiated an inquiry into his claims.
“I can assure you that the district investigates and addresses all reports of bullying that it receives,” Thomas said.
The incident began Monday when Smith said he brought his Bible to his first-period Spanish class after earlier being bullied for his sexual orientation.
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Only easy for libs. Sharpton could pull the wool over their eyes again if he wanted to.
Interesting that he mentions both Leviticus AND Romans...which shows the agreement between the OT and the NT and the DISAGREEMENT of the Bible with him.
But he DOES have great nails.
In the poop plunderer`s dictionary bullying is what happens when straights say “No.”
>>>“spoke out for gay rights in class this week after he said he was bullied”
Here we go.<<<
These days “bullied” could mean anything from classmates politely saying they believe homosexual sex is sinful, to them politely denying his request to sodomize them.
Festivus for the rest of us.
He has the rights of free speech and the freedom to exercise *his* religion but he has no right before the God of the Bible to intentionally misrepresent His viewpoint. There is higher court and a higher Judge than the American courts.
Just as one doesn't have the right before the God of the Qu'ran to be an infidel, either...which is why we should be grateful for freedom of religion in this country, as opposed to the horribly oppressive theocracies of the Middle East.
“These days “bullied” could mean anything”
Thats what I was thinking, is there even a valid definition for what bullying is?....or isn’t?
Except that there is no God of the Qu’ran. But I hear he doesn’t look too kindly on homosexuals either.
Let me know, I haven’t found one.
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