Quote:
Students do not abandon their constitutional rights to free speech when they enter public school. The United States Supreme Court has stated, “It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”1 The court has also stated that a student’s free speech rights apply “when [they are] in the cafeteria, or on the playing field, or on the campus during authorized hours…”2
The Supreme Court has ruled that religious speech is protected by the First Amendment and may not be singled out for discrimination.3
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Footnotes:
1 Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503, 506 (1968)
2 Id at 506.
3 See Good News Club v. Milford Central School District, 533 U.S. 98, 108-10 (2001); Widmar v. Vincent, 454 U.S. 263, 269 (1981).
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The irony here is that this quote and footnotes are from a (different) Christian group's website that was promoting an anti-homosexual "Day of Truth".