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Some good news from a public school for a change (but it took a lawsuit to get it)Nov. 18, 2008

      Concerning a subject about which I thought there was a note in a previous blog (but I guess that the item of which I am thinking was about a fifth-grader who was suspended for wearing an anti-Obama t-shirt), Drew Zahn of WorldNetDaily reported on Oct. 28, 2008, that a federal judge in Minnesota signed an injunction telling a sixth-grader's school that it cannot stop him from wearing pro-life T-shirts to class. Twelve-year-old "K.B." of Hutchinson, MN, had committed in April to wearing T-shirts with a pro-life message to his middle school every day for a month. According to the boy's attorney, however, his principal and teachers told K.B. – so identified because of his age – not to wear the T-shirts, publicly singled him out for ridicule in front of his schoolmates, removed him from class, sent him to the principal's office, forced him to turn his pro-life T-shirt inside out, and threatened him with suspension if he did not stop wearing the offending shirts. With the help of the Thomas More Law Center, a non-profit law firm that provides representation without charge to defend Christian beliefs in the public square, K.B. filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court. Following the court victory, Richard Thompson, president of the Law Center, commented, "This young Christian was not afraid to stand up for his pro-life beliefs despite ridicule and threats from school officials. We are pleased we were able to vindicate his constitutional rights."

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