Originally published at crisis magazine
When it comes to Supreme Court cases, there’s a tendency among conservative Christians to make a mountain out of a molehill. But most of the time, a molehill is just a molehill, and it’s important to treat it as such.
One such mountain-seeming molehill is a new case being petitioned before the U.S. Supreme Court that concerns a middle schooler’s right to wear a t-shirt saying “There are only two genders.” Apparently, this student attended a school that allowed students to wear clothes advocating gay pride, but the school’s administrators forced him to change out of his shirt.
This incident resulted in the students’ family lawyering up and suing the school, which lawyered up in turn and defended their position in court. The student’s family lost their case, so they are appealing the decision, arguing that the school violated their child’s right to free speech. As the family’s lawyers from Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) declared, “Students don’t lose their free speech rights the moment they walk into a school building.”
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Speaking as an educator of some years, I find this whole story to be utterly ridiculous
