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Civil Rights

Sep. 27, 2006

To Foster Equality at Schools, Some Speech Must Have Limits

FORUM COLUMN - In the spring of 2004, Tyler Chase Harper arrived at his San Diego-area school on two consecutive days wearing a T-shirt with the words "homosexuality is shameful" written on the back and an accusation on the front that the school, in allowing a "Day of Silence" demonstration by gay and lesbian students and their allies, had "accepted what God had condemned."


Forum Column

By Stuart Biegel

     
      In the spring of 2004, Tyler Chase Harper arrived at his San Diego-area school on two consecutive days wearing a T-shirt with the words "homosexuality is shameful" written on the back and an accusation on the front that the school, in allowing a "Day of Silence" demonstration by gay and lesbian students and their allies, had "accepted what God had cond...

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