Fashion Board 2-3-04 to 3-5-04

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Nuh-uh. Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School Dist., 393 U.S. 503 (1969) (7-2 decision finding that school officials violated the First Amendment rights of students by suspending them for wearing black armbands to school, referring to the symbolic speech act as a “nondisruptive, passive expression of a political viewpoint”); cf. Bethel School Dist. No. 403 v. Fraser, 478 U.S. 675 (1986) (high school does not offend First Amendment by punishing vulgar campaign speech; prohibiting the use of vulgar and offensive terms in public discourse is a “highly appropriate function of public school education”).

A public school teacher who instructed a student to remove a cross “to avoid potential controversy” would be bitch-slapped by every First Amendment interest group in the country, and seven if not nine Supreme Court justices.

Followups to the Aggressive Use of Con Law Thinktank (i.e., the Politics Board).

Plus, if crosses are outlawed, only outlaws will have crosses.