Posted on 05/09/2015 7:07:07 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Students at Bangor Area High School in Pennsylvania were encouraged by the schools Gay-Straight Alliance to wear rainbow-colored T-shirts on Friday of last week in support of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender issues.
Instead, two students wore Chick-fil-A T-shirts. Suspensions followed on Monday. But those who were suspended may surprise you:
[The school] suspended a group of students for using Twitter during school hours to call out two students wearing Chick-fil-A shirts during a Gay-Straight Alliance event, parents and students said.
The suspended students felt the T-shirts were offensive because of widely publicized comments the fast food companys president and CEO, Dan Cathy, made in 2012 against gay marriage. The two students were part of a televised broadcast of the schools daily announcements. Offended students took to Twitter to express their thoughts, with the tweets against the two students continuing over the weekend.
One student tweeted to another who had criticized one of the students who wore the shirts:
Youre expressing your feelings Why cant he? The response:
Being an offensive [expletive] is not expressing your feelings. One of the suspended students tweeted:
Shout-out to the [expletive] in the Chik-fil-A shirts. The mother of the that suspended student weighed in with her opinion as well:
You want to encourage everyone to be their own person, and for someone to decide its OK for those two students to go on a morning show and wear a shirt like that with no repercussions, what is the school saying? That its OK? Perhaps the school was saying those students had every right, under the First Amendment, to wear the shirts?
Now the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania is investigating the suspensions, calling them a pretty harsh punishment.
So, who was right and who was wrong here? The students who wore the Chick-fil-A T-shirts? The students who harassed them throughout the weekend? Bangor Area High School for suspending the harassers?
Let us know what you think.
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No, I have never worn rainbow colors, but I don’t think you can prohibit students from wearing rainbow colors on a certain day at school.
Sounds like a tag line to me.
Ben & Jerry’s is a little um, overpriced. I can get a pint for less from many other brands.
Over 16 years for me.
i started following during the first Bush election. Feels like a million years ago. It really does
Diversity hates nonconformists.
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the queer T’s were offensive. All wearers of Queer T shirts should be given time off
I say, run away from home, make ‘em think your dead, get a raft and a ni...um, a black friend, and head up the Mississippi River toward eternity....
More steps to another Nazi Germany...
“Democrats explode at the word no, just like two-year-olds.
In fact, EXACTLY like two-year-olds.”
Watch happens when those two-year olds start openly mass murdering everyone who doesn’t agree with them.
You’re Aussie? Awesome!
Oh it’s true alright - go to Mynorthwest.com and search for the articles. Amazing.
Right you are.
“[The school] suspended a group of students for using Twitter during school hours”
The liberals are almost to the point of punishing those don’t wear the uniform of the day. You just wore white and jeans? Suspended!
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