Fed Court Rejects Appeal By Teacher Told Not To Hand Out Anti-Gay Material

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/09/092506teacher.htm

A federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit by a teacher who claimed her constitutional rights were violated when the college she worked for said she could not hand out pamphlets to students condemning homosexuality and advocating Christianity.

A Jewish student at Carl Sandburg College, in Galesburg, about 180 miles southwest of Chicago, complained in 2002 when cosmetology teacher Martha Louise Piggee gave him the tracts which called homosexuality a sin and called for people to read the Bible and be baptized.

Piggee was told she could not hand out the material and that her action qualified as sexual harassment. She was neither fired nor disciplined.

Nevertheless Piggee went to court accusing the college, the board of trustees and five college administrators of violating her due process rights and her constitutional rights to free speech. The suit said that the college's sexual harassment policy was not clear.

[twilight_sailing]

1. "cosmetology"?

Miss Piggee has a problem with gay hairdressers?

You can't make this stuff up. ;)

[davidinalameda]

4. I know

:rofl:

[Tanuki]

2. Miss Piggee needs to stick to cosmetology

and give proseletyzing her students a rest.

[xchrom]

3. piggee?!?! -- i cannot improve on that.