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Constitutional Law

Apr. 29, 2006

'Harper' Protects Gay Sensitivities, Not Free Speech

Forum Column - By Robert D. Richards and Clay Calvert - Does the First Amendment guarantee of free speech protect a public high school student who wears a shirt to school with "Homosexuality is Shameful" emblazoned on the back? According to

Forum Column

By Robert D. Richards and Clay Calvert
     
      Does the First Amendment guarantee of free speech protect a public high school student who wears a shirt to school with "Homosexuality is Shameful" emblazoned on the back?
      According to an April opinion by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Harper v. Poway Unified School Distri...

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