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TexasTowelie

(112,198 posts) Thu Dec 5, 2013, 12:26 PM Dec 2013

How a Texas school responded to anti-gay bullying by suppressing the victim’s free speech

Let’s play a game. Read the following little story and then guess where it happened:

A student in a high school tears pages from a “holy book” as a protest. The incident causes considerable outrage from authorities. The fact that he owns the book and no one is injured doesn’t matter; he is suspended from school.

Was this something that happened in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq?

Nope, it was Richland Hills, Texas. The “holy book” was a Bible and the student, Isaiah Smith, was the victim of anti-gay bullying. In protest, he tore the pages from the books of Leviticus and Romans in his Bible.

More at http://www.lonestarq.com/dungeon-diary-north-richland-hills-school-district-violated-isaiah-smiths-free-speech/#more-879 .

Cross-posted in Texas Group.

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How a Texas school responded to anti-gay bullying by suppressing the victim’s free speech (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2013 OP

Bible-editing has gone on incessantly down thru history. How do ya think all that.... Smarmie Doofus Dec 2013 #1

Smarmie Doofus

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1. Bible-editing has gone on incessantly down thru history. How do ya think all that....

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Thu Dec 5, 2013, 12:35 PM

Dec 2013

... stuff about gays got in there in the first place?

Jefferson tore out all the asinine sections re. "miracles" and other non-scientific and anti-scientific bullshit, and published the streamlined, non-crazy version that remained.

The lad should be commended. He's American as apple pie. If some people in Texas or anywhere else don't like it they should move back to England.

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