{"id":148,"date":"2008-02-14T09:06:15","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T14:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=148"},"modified":"2008-02-14T09:06:15","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T14:06:15","slug":"the-bible-as-hate-speech-schools-as-anti-free-speech-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=148","title":{"rendered":"The Bible as &quot;Hate Speech&quot;, Schools as &quot;Anti-Free Speech&quot; Zones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I understand that schools should and do determine what&#8217;s appropriate to be said during school hours, but with all the other speech and such that they do allow, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/breakingnews\/ci_8251029\" target=\"_blank\">this prohibition<\/a> looks rather targeted.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A federal judge has rejected a claim that the Poway Unified School District violated a teenager&#8217;s First Amendment rights by pulling him out of class for wearing a T-shirt with an anti-gay slogan. <\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s ruling by U.S. District Judge John Houston reaffirmed an earlier decision in which he found the school district&#8217;s policy on hate speech lawful. <\/p>\n<p>Tyler Harper sued the school in 2004 after the district said he could not wear a shirt printed with a Bible verse condemning homosexuality. His younger sister, Kelsie, was named as a plaintiff after he graduated. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/stoptheaclu.com\/archives\/2008\/02\/14\/ca-judge-rules-that-bible-verse-is-hate-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stop the ACLU<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I understand that schools should and do determine what&#8217;s appropriate to be said during school hours, but with all the other speech and such that they do allow, this prohibition looks rather targeted. A federal judge has rejected a claim that the Poway Unified School District violated a teenager&#8217;s First Amendment rights by pulling him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9,47,20,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-doug","category-homosexuality","category-judiciary","category-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}