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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyJune 4th, 2015
A Faubian Middle School in McKinney, Texas, a seventh grade student came out as gay and was subsequently bullied. Several girls in the school decided to take a stance in support of that student.
On the next-to-last day of school about fifteen students wore t-shirts blazed with the message: “Gay O.K.”. But this message was not acceptable to the administrators. (nbcdfw)
“We were doing perfectly fine until lunch,” said Sammy Heiman, a seventh grader who designed the shirts. “And then [the administration] called us all out, all the people wearing them, called us out of the cafeteria.”
And that’s when things got rowdy. The other students in the cafeteria saw what was going on and that the students were being told not to wear the shirts and started chanting “Gay O.K.” One student not wearing the shirt argued with an administrator and knocked a cell phone from their hand.
So, having caused a fracas by forcing the girls to change, the administrators are claiming that they banned the shirts only because they were disruptive.
“In this particular case, a verbal disruption occurred between a large number of students in the cafeteria as a result of the shirts,” said Cody Cunningham, spokesman for the McKinney Independent School District. “This was not a civil debate, but rather yelling and shouting, and [it] alarmed a large number of students.”
“While we respect student free speech, our primary obligation is to ensure a safe and productive learning environment for students in McKinney ISD,” Cunningham added.
See, your shirts caused a disruption when we took away your First Amendment rights.
And, in the worst possible reporting of an event ever, the local news is echoing the administration. “… they were not concerned about what that shirt said, just the results you saw there”.
Of course, there were no “results” until after the administrators called the girls out of the auditorium. So that’s simply a falsehood.
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Sir Andrew
June 4th, 2015
I would be upset and surprised by this had it not happened in Texas (or Oklahoma or Arkansas or Alabama or a few other truly hateful states). But any state that votes for Ted Cruz or Rick Perry can be counted on to do these types of moronic things and then blame their actions on a bunch of kids.
Neil
June 4th, 2015
I’m quite confident Sarah Palin will take to her Facebook page immediately to defend the right of free speech on behalf of the t-shirt campaign. She’s already written in support of the Duggar family as an issue of free speech.
Mark F.
June 5th, 2015
@Sir Andrew. You do realize, of course, that there are nutty social conservatives in all states, even deep blue ones. It’s just that some states have more than others.
Regan DuCasse
June 5th, 2015
I know, Neil. I know…
No END to the depth of stupid irony, is there?
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