Posted on 05/11/2005 2:11:51 PM PDT by EnigmaticAnomaly
No. Christian, federalist, Marine.
The T shirt is probably the one on Rock for Life's website. A prolife ministry for teens and young adults. You can order stuff from them.
I was being sarcastic in my first post, by the way. On a more series note, I hope the kid wins his lawsuit. But if schools allow pro-life messages, then, in all fairness, pro-abortion messages must also be allowed. No double standards.
Don't know what that particular school allows, but the shirts are out there. I'm sure that pro-deathers get to wear their shirts in school without even so much as a peep from their gutless school administrators.
I think being naked at school would be COOL. But the school official is worried about distractions.
It might be HARD to concentrate, on some school subjects, when all your blood flows from one head to another.
Lets see, the classes that people would excel in.
Math, specifically MULTIPLICATION.
Science, APPLIED BIOLOGY.
SOCIAL Studies.
Physical Education, improved hand eye coordination (ok forget the eye)
I respectfully disagree. Public schools are for learning - for everyone of every faith or belief. Anything which detracts from that (like disregarding the rules) is not in the best interests of anyone. The pushing of any particular religious belief is disruptive and therefore is not appropriate.
Only the self-righteous "pro-lifers" have a lock on what should be done in other people's families.
You mean "to other people" not "in other people's families".
As a certain lady said, " Gee those I love partial birth abortion t-shirts just aren't selling?"
Then it's time to stop pushing secular humanism and it's religion, EVOLUTION, on us.
Please spare me the "It's fact..." Prove it. Science has yet to prove evolution. As a matter of fact, you can't prove a theory.... which is all it is and a pretty lousy one at that...
First of all, no one is "pro-death" - that is contrary to mature reason. Because people get killed in war does not make those who support any particular war "pro-death". Thousands get killed in auto accidents but those supporting freedom to drive are not "pro-death". Why would you label my mother (who would die in child birth) "pro-death" if she had to resort to an abortion?
Second of all, no school could get away with banning some religious or social commentary and not others.
Evolution is not religion, it is science. It is accumulated evidence. How that evidence is interpreted and how our human condition is interpreted depends upon our education, maturity and experience. If you are basing your view of physical reality on denied evidence, you are engaging in superstition and you are at a substantial disadvantage.
To move beyond the superstition, read some of my other posts.
Well duh! What the H#ll do you think abortion is???? D-E-A-T-H!
No. People come out of families, the basic unit of human society. After the family comes the church and government.
There are plenty of people with me (including the founding fathers) that do not want the government or a religious organization telling us what we MUST do.
Got the picture? Kevin's message is being singled out because the principal doesn't agree with the message. Unconstitutional.
I wonder if the ACLU is going to swoop in and defend this boy's freedom of speech like they have for the "I Love My Vagina" shirts that the high school girl in Minneapolis (or "Moscow on the Mississippi") has been defending..
How can you die before you are born? Human life is defined as the experience between birth and death. Check the definition of birth: Origin; A beginning or commencement. The emergence and separation of offspring from the body of the mother. b. The act or process of bearing young
Life is more than the flesh, it is consciousness, self awareness. There is no self awareness before birth. There is certainly POTENTIAL life before the process of birth. There is the potential of adulthood with every child but every child does not reach adulthood. We do not call children adults because they MAY reach adulthood and the unborn are not babys just because they MAY be born.
The ACLU stands up for freedom of speech, for everyone. Here's an identical situation from April 29:
http://www.aclu.org/StudentsRights/StudentsRights.cfm?ID=18159&c=159
If that is the case it is indeed unconstitutional. The most appropriate action would then be to call for the end of the other displays. Two wrongs do not make a right.
-Abbie Hoffmann, after being ordered to remove his US Flag-motif T-shirt during an appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee, circa 1969
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