Posted on 05/11/2005 2:11:51 PM PDT by EnigmaticAnomaly
(CNSNews.com) - A junior at Fillmore Central High School near Buffalo, N.Y., has filed a federal lawsuit against his school district for ordering him to remove his pro-life T-shirt in violation of his free-speech rights. The Thomas More Law Center, a Michigan-based public interest law firm, and the American Catholic Lawyers Association are representing the student, Kevin Dibble, who was told by the school principal that the message on his T-shirt was offensive and therefore prohibited. The T-shirt read, "Abortion is Homicide. You will not silence my message. You will not mock my God. You will stop killing my generation. Rock for Life." Dibble said he had worn the same shirt to school several times before he was stopped - and suspended for refusing to remove it. "This is another example of a school taking sides in the abortion issue and attempting to silence a student's message because it disagrees with it," said Richard Thompson, chief counsel of the Thomas More Law Center.
But then you always were more optimistic than me ...
Ant Z: "...sometimes here in the Colony I feel so...insignificant."
Therapist Ant: "EXCELLENT, Z! That's a real breakthrough.
Ant Z: "It is? How's that?"
Therapist Ant: Well, Z. You ARE insignificant."
Ant Z: "I am?"
-from the motion picture "ANTZ"; Dreamworks Productions, 2003
There is also the view that those who wanted Terri to remain in her tormented state were "pro torture". How would you like to be trapped in a non functioning body for several years, dependent on others for your most intimate functioning and unable to communicate or interact in a manner anywhere close to normal? To most people that would be torture in the most sever degree. Does it raise our standing to force someone to endure this most inhumane of conditions just so we can maintain some superstitious belief about our human condition? If so, that is too bad.
Until they mention the word Jesus.
How do you know Terri's brain wasn't self aware? Are you her "self"?
I think your existence must be pure torture. Your testimony otherwise is just proof that your "self" is utterly deluded and can no longer be trusted to provide credible testimony about your true state.
Got a better standard for defining human life? Maybe "independence" or the ability to preserve the self? Any others?
You can prove that for yourself. Have you communicated with a tree or a rock? Be that as it may, you and I have communicated, therefore we are self-aware by your definition.
Have you read all of my posts on this thread? That would be a good idea if you actually want to understand what I am saying.
I don't think public schools should be in the business of regulating freedom of expression, unless we're going to do away with the First Amendment. I wonder where the ACLU is on this one.
So all of a sudden "communication" is your standard? I just want to be clear. A second ago it was self-awareness. It IS communication now, right?
Not quite sure why this student should be required to "hold his tongue" about his political beliefs on public property. Protecting controversial speech is what the 1st Amendment is all about.
In this age of school shootings, it seems the schools have bigger problems on their hands than a student choosing to express his views.
I don't know that for sure - even though Doctors testified under oath that she was not self aware. But, I hope she was not self aware - how would you like to be trapped in a mostly non functioning body for years on end? Imagine being stuck in a (body) coffin, unable to move, unable to read, unable to communicate, etc. - would that not drive almost anyone insane? We would not allow a convicted murder to endure those conditions.
Well, that was my point. How did humanity multiply from Adam and Eve without massive incest? And since incest was inevitable and required for the expansion of mankind, what is wrong with it now?
No, communication is just evidence of self-awareness. Not a very difficult concept ... Please try to think a little longer before replying.
And spiritually, there had to be a first human. The animals don't understand that there is a God. There had to be a first creature who could see that there was a God. And that was Adam. To worry about incest when a truth like that is being given to us is looking for flyshit in the pepper.
LOL, good one.
This school district as a legal target is so juicy that I am salivating.
I don't agree. Spiritually, there is no beginning and no ending - spirit is eternal. I do not believe that my life began at human birth. If we are children of an infinite God, we are also infinite. This human experience is just a segment of our real existence. Human thought once perceived the world as flat because that was how it appeared. Human thought perceives life to exist between human birth and death because that is how it appears. Using our intellect we can imagine that life is far more than it appears to our human consciousness. Most of humanity is locked into the superstition that life is only what we can perceive and that misunderstanding is keeping humanity from making the progress that Jesus sacrificed for. Spirituality is not connected to the human condition. You do not become more spiritual by believing that Adam and Eva were the source of life. Adam and Eve were the source of the human illusion that we are separate from our spiritual Source which is God.
Please try to think before making self-awareness your standard, when what you really mean is YOU believing something is self aware, which is completely different.
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