Posted on 07/17/2013 5:38:44 PM PDT by ReformationFan
A judge has ruled in favor of a student who sued after he was thrown out of class by a gay activist teacher for expressing his religious beliefs against the homosexual lifestyle.
Federal District Judge Patrick J. Duggan of the Eastern District of Michigan declared the teacher’s actions in punishing Daniel Glowacki violated his First Amendment Rights.
"While the Court certainly recognizes that schools are empowered to regulate speech to prevent students from invading the rights of other students, people do not have a legal right to prevent criticism of their beliefs or for that matter their way of life," Judge Duggan stated in his decision.
"Simply put, the law does not establish a generalized hurt feelings defense to a high school’s violation of the First Amendment rights of its students."
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The same psychotic arrogance that many years ago caused a teacher to tmsend another student and me to the principal’s office to be reprimanded (and threatened with suspension) for disagreeing with him about the merits of a poem that was being discussed in class.
Sad, though, that many (mostly liberals) need remedial training in the understanding of free speech. I am reminded of the student demonstrator attempting to shout down the speech of someone he disagreed with. As he was led away, he was heard to shout, "My free speech rights are being violated!"
You post an excellent example of the abuse, not misuse, of free speech rights.
Haha, that’s the exact same thing I tell people. If you don’t like what I’m saying, then take it up with God. They don’t have an answer for that.
Excellent!!
I was just trying to point out that nobody really thinks there should be an absolute right to free speech in a classroom. It would be utter chaos.
We think there should be order, with a reasonable opportunity for controversy and dispute, not "free speech" for those who agree with the teacher and suspension for those who disagree.
BTTT
I agree with the judge in principle. But my problem with this situation is the following. No federal laws were broken because 1A prohibits Congress from making such laws.
And I don’t know of any specific state laws that abridged the student’s constitutional rights, so Sec. 1 of 14A probably does not apply here.
The way I see it, in the absence of state laws which protect students in such situations, the judge essentially had no choice but to legislate a conservative-favoring law from the bench to protect the student. The problem is that, as a consequence of the “case closed” complacency of concerned conservative citizens and state lawmakers as a result of the judge deciding things in their favor, some pro-gay judge will eventually legislate an anti-conservative law from the bench and decide against another student in a similar situation.
In other words, as a consequence of not recognizing the difference between legislative and judicial powers, I think that conservatives are failing to recognize that this is a “loose canon” situation which needs to be resolved by either local code or state law imo. That is, unless conservatives want to continue playing “Russian roulette” with good judges versus activist judges where protecting people’s constitutional privileges or immunities are concerned.
So what am I overlooking?
Thanks ReformationFan.
The student is a minor.
The activist so-called teacher should be outed and scorned.
Another bite out of free speech.
A good news judge!
In an effort to find common ground I asked a liberal High School teacher out on a date, but we never got that far.. She bragged about how often she attended the marches and protests that are popping up from time to time..
I thought it would be a show of tolerance on my part to invite her our to a wonderful dinner, but she wouldn’t agree to my request to be dipped at my veterinarian before she got into my car.. Pity, it could have been interesting... :)
Kudos! So rarely can one use the word ‘pedagogical’ in today’s political or social conversation. It is one of my favorite words!
It is even more rare to find anyone who understands the word...
LOL!
Thank you! I do the “SAT Question of the Day” to keep up my word power.
So what am I overlooking?
and they have called it Separation of Church and State.
When it is nothing less than States rights, although i like the way the Judge ruled it should have been decided by the State.
It is hard to tell how it would have turned out if it had of been left up to the State to decide, because people are not governing their States.
I guess we can be thankful for a supreme court Judge that will make the right decision on an issue that is really not his to make, but like you say, what next?
The pole smoking teacher needs to be dope slapped.
The kid’s father should see to it.
It is only good news if the teacher who is being held wholly liable, is sued to the gills.
And this young man has his college career paid by the proceeds of the lawsuit.
No lawsuit changes anything unless the left loses monies.
The left certainly doesn’t hesitate from cleaning out their targets
So what am I overlooking?
Thank you for posting this. Christians need to take a stand in love.
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