So, last week, as some of you may know, Wednesday was the "Day of Silence" for the gay right activists and supporters (because they're "suffering in silence"). Anyway, at a school in Michigan, some people (unknown to me as of yet whether it was other students or officials) were giving out duct tape for students to place over their mouths to show support. Anyway, a student took a piece, wrote "I'm straight" on it, and wore it on his shirt. He was kicked out of class and suspended for a day. His dad, a pastor, is considering legal action.
Now, how is this fair? The supporters of the gay rights movement are allowed to show their support and their beliefs, but this kid is not? Yes, he was doing it to spite the other students, and in somewhat mockery, but how does that change the basis of the incident? He shouldn't've been suspended, especially if duct tape was being handed out.
I say it's outrageous. Another form of reverse discrimination.
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Thats more outrageous than that fat kid who farts during situps in gym.
Your use of the word gay is not politically correct, Jake. How is it gay to wear a piece of duct tape saying you're straight?
heh.
suspended for being straight...
I'm gonna have to side with the duct tape kid on this one. Yes, he's being mean and mocking gay people, but he should be allowed to, in my opinion. I mean, he was was handed the duct tape specifically for to wear in school that day. Granted, he didn't do it in quite the way they intended, but still. I could see being asked to remove it, but not being suspended. And what does his dad being a preacher have to do with anything? Just a little side note?
The fact that his dad is a preacher is a side note, yet not surprising considering the son's beliefs.
I understand that the boy was being a complete and inconsiderate jerk, but this was a violation of his first amendment rights. If the school will allow the supporters of the gay movement to show their support, they also must allow others to show the areas to which they lend their support.
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First point: those who wore the tape over their mouths were in no way expressing their sexual orientation. They were expressing their support for the gay rights movement, and believe it or not (though you middle class white teenagers may not), there are straight people that do support gay rights.
This kid, for whatever reason, felt the need to write "I'm straight" on ducttape and put it on his chest. It was in obvious mockery of the gay rights movement.
I am in full support of our first amendment rights, and no where in here have I said the school was right for what it did. But keep in mind that it is the kids like this that will hold back our societal progress in twenty years.
Kevin is right--we have to keep in mind that they were showing support for the gay rights movement, not expressing their sexual orientation. (And that just sounded like I repeated exactly what Kevin said, which I pretty much did, but unintentionally.)
That being said, I don't think it's right to label this kid as the kind who'll hold back societal progress. After all, consider, he was exercising his first amendment rights, and he was kicked out of a public high school. We've become, by and large, a moral society, desperately afraid to step on the toes of others. We go to such great reaches to accomodate the minorities that we act against the majority, and when a voice of the majority does speak out, it's punished. Now, it seems to me that this 'societal progress' of which you speak has gone to far. It's time for the pendelum to come to rest in the middle.
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Heil.....achem....uh i mean...i agree with colin. the truth hurts. but it hurts more when finding it after a series of serious lies.
Uh Tyler... the truth hurts? What exactly is this truth you speak of?
And Colin, I do not mean that he will hold back society because he is using his first amendment right. Of course he is allowed to speak as he wishes.
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