Ravi
Diamond Member
PANAMA CITY, FL After a two-day trial in which a Florida high school principal testified that he believed clothing or stickers featuring rainbows would make students automatically picture gay people having sex, a federal judge today ruled that the school violated students First Amendment rights of students. The case was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of a junior at the school who had been forbidden by her principal to wear any sort of clothing, stickers, buttons, or symbols to show her support of equal rights for gay people.
Standing up to my school was really hard to do, but Im so happy that I did because the First Amendment is a big deal to everyone, said Heather Gillman, a junior at Ponce de Leon High School and the plaintiff in the case.
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