Free speech (about promiscuity or anything else) is protected by the
constitution, but that does not mean that schools can't regulate speech
within their premises.  As an example, how would you react if your
child's first grade teacher greeted the class each morning with "F**k
you, you little s**ts!" and the school's administration responded to
complaints with "The teacher has a right to free speech?"

This is an extreme example, of course, and I agree that the school
administrators overreacted to the t-shirts, but this is not a
constitutional matter, and it's not a matter of promoting homosexuality
over heterosexuality.  Debate about such questions is not helped by such
hyperbole.

John Clogg

My opinions are my own, not my employer's, etc.

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Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 1:16 PM
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Subject: Re: OT: More Evolution

So is promiscuity illegal?  Dangerous?  Profane?  Pornographic?  Why is
it
not protected under the constitution?  What is unique about it that it's
not protected as freedom of speech?

I understand that most of us don't want our daughters or sons to be
promiscuous, but should the State be involved in that?  Most of America
doesn't want their kids to be gay, either (according to polls), but
should
the State be regulating that?  That's my problem with this.  If it's
promiscuity today, what will it be tomorrow?  It's exactly why the law
protects speech.

John Lee

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