Students Wear "Straight Pride" T-Shirts (includes passage advocating death for gays)

[WillParkinson]

Students Wear "Straight Pride" T-Shirts

In response to a gay-straight alliance week designed to fight bullying, some high school students in Chicago wore t-shirts for "straight pride" that included a Biblical passage advocating death for gay people.

The Chicago Tribune reports on the controversy at St. Charles North High School, which this week held an Ally Week to combat bullying. Three students wore the straight pride t-shirts on Monday, and some other students complained.

http://advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/11/12/Chicago_Students_Wear_Straight_Pride_T_Shirts/

[msongs]

1. quoting terrorist training manuals - what nice kids nt

[YOY]

2. A Catholic School? I love it when Catholics try to out-asshole evangelicals....

n.t.

[MineralMan]

3. Nope. It's a public school

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Charles_North_High_School

In St. Charles, IL, a Chicago suburb.

[RetiredTrotskyite]

10. It May Be a Public School...

but the local homohaters are certainly working hard on out-assholing the Fundies.

[emulatorloo]

4. Doesn't sound like they have much to be proud about, other than their ignorance and hatefullness

EOM

[WillParkinson]

5. Be nice Emulatorloo!

For some folks that's all they've got.

[Kennah]

6. And to think ...

... I had been successfully deluding myself, at least for a few days, into believing the Tea Baggers would NOT start issuing uniforms. Well, I suppose it's appropriate that Hitlerjugend 2010 would get the first uniforms.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

7. This is different than the 2001 case due to the quote from Leviticus

The 2001 case had male and female icons on the back holding hands. When the school admins went high order, it went to court. When they lost in court they had a meltdown. Those shirts have been showing up on campuses every since. http://www.firstamendmentschools.org/freedoms/case.aspx?id=1691

These are different shirts as noted above and a court may see it differently. However, the school ducked the obviously trolling to get sued and appears to have used it as a teachable moment.

Also discussed here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9536734

[RetiredTrotskyite]

8. I Can't Remember THings Being This Bad....

in quite some time. This worries me.

[iris27]

9. This is protected, but "Bong Hits For Jesus" (at an OUTSIDE-of-school event) was not?

Fucking disgusting.