Jonathan Turley op-ed about US acceptance of limitation on free expression for negative religious stereotyping

[Michael R. Masinter]

Does current first amendment protection under Tinker extend to  
children who wear T-shirts to a public school that proclaim Islam is  
of the Devil in the absence of material disruption to discipline under  
a school board policy that empowers the school to ban offensive  
speech?  How about followup T-shirts that proclaim I.I.O.T.D.?  In  
each case the T-shirt's front expressed a positive message about  
Christianity; the suspensions were based on the statement on the back.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32565118/ns/us_news-education/
http://www.alligator.org/news/local/article_e24c85fc-d078-52b6-a21e-72b95cb2f0bb.html


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Quoting "Scarberry, Mark" <Mark.Scarberry at pepperdine.edu>:

> http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/10/column-just-say-no-to-blasphemy-laws-.html
>
> This appears to be a disastrous decision by an Obama administration   
> that very much should know better.
>
> Mark Scarberry
> Pepperdine
>
> cross posted to conlawprof
>