
Gay & Lesbian – A Florida high school is "trampling the First Amendment rights of students who support equal rights for gay people", a federal judge was told on Monday. Heather Gillman, a junior at Ponce de Leon High School, is suing the school after she was told she could not wear buttons, stickers or clothing that supported LGBT civil rights.
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I hope Heather and her classmates win this lawsuit on behalf of gay and lesbian students throughout Florida. Frankly, I think it ought to be a class-action lawsuit against all the idiotic districts that think prohibiting this kind of speech is acceptable. What if the same buttons had the name of a Presidential Candidate on them. For example, "Young Gays and Lesbians for Hillary Clinton"? Wouldn't that be political free speech protected by the First Amendment? I thought such issues were sacrosanct.
Sans those words, the buttons are out according to the district. The ACLU should win this case hands down.