Offensive gay t shirts
&#;Offensive&#; T-shirt Causes Quite a Stir
One day after our city&#;s popular annual Rotary Festival, highlighted by the Rotary Fest Parade, an absorbing article appeared on accepted local news website posting an open letter by a woman named Heather. To summarize, Heather&#;s letter expressed her concern over a shirt worn by one of the adolescent men within the Male lover Pride section of the parade. The shirt had blazoned across it the phrase &#;haters gonna hate&#;. Heather specifically stated that she had no issue with the Gay Celebration section being in the parade, but felt that the shirt was repulsive because &#;messages of hatred should not ever be permitted from any party&#;. She felt that the shirt was likely directed at religious people as they tend to be the ones taking anti-homosexual stances. Overall, though I myself was not offended and don&#;t exactly assent with her, I felt like the tone of the letter was respectful and that she was not coming down on anyone in particular, but was simply expressing her opinion in a responsible way.
Others didn&#;t think so. At last count, within less than 24 hours of the article creature published, responses were posted in the comments sect
Freshman Class Council scraps repulsive shirts
The Freshman Class Council has run into controversy with its T-shirts for The Game.
The FCC has decided to change the design of its shirts after the original plan, which was submitted by students and voted on by the freshman class, sparked outcry from members within the gay, woman-loving woman, bisexual and transgender society. But after the LGBT Cooperative and other students raised concerns about the design &#; which contained the word &#;sissies&#; &#; administrators asked the FCC to reconsider. FCC representatives decided Tuesday to scrap the old T-shirts, which had not yet been printed, and make a new design.
The original blueprint, which won out over five other entries, displayed an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote in the front &#; &#;I think of all Harvard men as sissies&#; &#; in bold white letters. The support of the long-sleeved, navy blue T-shirt said &#;WE AGREE&#; in capital letters, with &#;The Game &#; scrawled in script underneath it.
But the term &#;sissies&#; is considered offensive and demeaning, and as skillfully as a &#;thinly-veiled homosexual slur,&#; said Julio Perez-Torres &#;12, a member of the LGBT Co-op.
After the winning design was
CALIFORNIA &#; Afederal appeals court ruled yesterday that a school district was justified inbarring a student from wearing a T-shirt with anti-gaystatements.
School officials can restrict what students wear to avoidviolating the rights or well-being of vulnerable trainee populations like gaystudents, according to the decision handed down by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court ofAppeals.
In a decision, the court held that officials at PowayHigh School in Poway, Calif., did not violate student Tyler Harper&#;s FirstAmendment rights when they forbade him from wearing a T-shirt that said, &#;Homosexuality Is Shameful&#; at school.
Judge AlexKozinksi issued the dissenting perspective, asserting that school officials werewrong to censor Harper because there was no evidence gay students were harmed byhis wearing of the T-shirt, which also said, &#;Be Ashamed, Our SchoolEmbraced What God Has Condemned.&#;
Robert Tyler, an attorneyrepresenting Harper in the case, said he will petition immediately for anen banc re-hearing, where the entirepanel of circuit judges is called to re-hear and rule on the appeal. He said isalso considering taking Harper&#;s case to the U.S. SupremeCourt.
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U.S. Court Backs School’s Judgment to Bar Student’s Anti-Gay T-Shirt
A federal appeals court’s ruling that a widespread school may prohibit students’ wearing of T-shirts bearing slogans that “denigrate” same-sex attracted and lesbian students was hailed last week by gay-rights advocates, but drew fire from some legal observers, who said it endorsed viewpoint discrimination.
The ruling late last month by a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit came in a much-debated case involving a scholar at a California elevated school who wore a T-shirt calling homosexuality “shameful.”
“Those who administer our widespread educational institutions need not tolerate verbal assaults that may destroy the self-esteem of our most vulnerable teenagers and interfere with their educational development,” U.S. Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt wrote for the majority.
In a sharp dissent, Determine Alex Kozinski said that “of the possible measures a school might grab to deal with substantial disruption of the university environment, those involving viewpoint discrimination would seem to me to be the least justifiable.”
Some legal observers predict that a larger panel of the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit court will
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