Here's the article, what do you think? Is saying that homosexuality is wrong now something that can be defined as bullying? So is it now okay to say that same sex marriage is right, but if you say that marriage is a man and a woman you are now bullying? You are now in violation of law. Is this another example of the definition of tolerance is I can believe anything I want, but you can not believe what you want if it is at all a Christian belief. To me, that is what it sounds like. Anyone have a thought?
A Fort Worth high school student says he was suspended from school for expressing his Christian beliefs in class. His teacher, however, saw it differently, labeling the student's comments about homosexuality as bullying.
The comment came during a German class, where conversation turned to vocabulary for Christianity and the Bible. Dakota said one student asked about translations for homosexual terms.
"I said, ‘I'm a Christian, and I don't think being gay is right,'" he said. "If the same situation comes up, just different scenario, I think I'd do the same thing," he said in comments made to local Fort Worht television station.
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His decision to speak out earned him a full day of in-school suspension, and he was banned from campus for two more days.
"I was blown away that this led to a suspension," said Matthew Krause with Libery Counsel, a nonprofit law firm. "Once we got into it and found out that's the only thing he said to a classmate, we knew pretty quick there had been a violation of his constitutional right to free speech."
Fort Worth ISD would not comment, other than a statement saying, "Suffice it to say, we are following policy in our review of the circumstances and any resolution will be in accordance with district policy." Krause said the teacher opened the door to the topic and the student's statement.
After initially reducing the suspension to just one day, administrators dropped it completely on Wednesday.
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