PONCE DE LEON, Fla. - When a high school senior told her principal
that students were taunting her for being a lesbian, he told her
homosexuality is wrong, outed her to her parents, and ordered her to
stay away from children.
He suspended some of her friends who expressed their outrage by
wearing gay pride T-shirts and buttons at Ponce de Leon High School,
according to court records. And he asked dozens of students whether
they were gay or associated with gay students.
PHOENIX - A federal judge on Wednesday
permanently barred Arizona from using a state law to prosecute an
online merchant who sells shirts that list names of thousands of troops
killed in Iraq.
U.S. District Judge Neil Wake
did not strike down the 2007 law against selling products that use of
military casualties' names without families' permission. But he ruled
that using the law to prosecute Dan Frazier would violate the Flagstaff
man's First Amendment rights because his "Bush Lied - They Died" shirts
are "core political speech."
