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Be Careful What You Wish For: Gays, Dueling High School T-Shirts, and the Perils of Suppression

By Alliance Alert

Wake Forest Law Review: "The dueling school t-shirts expose basic tensions between competing constitutional ideals. One approach is a broadly inclusive belief in equality and dignity to be achieved, if necessary, through suppression of contrary political and religious messages. The other approach is a more broadly protective system of freedom of expression. It seeks to advance dignity and equality by methods other than the suppression of ideas on matters of public concern. Attempting to translate constitutional ideals into the public school setting raises difficult problems."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 24, 2009 (boomark / email).