Freedom of Speech infringement at my school?

[Ipquarx]

This is utterly false. Schools cannot hold prejudice for any reason-- be it skin colour or political beliefs.

http://www.firstamendmentschools.org/freedoms/faq.aspx?id=12991

Obviously, if they're just going around expelling every black or lgbt person they're quickly going to get shut down, but they can however suspend and expel people for discriminating against other people, and people being richards in general. For example, if you go around putting up posters supporting CIA you're going to be expelled very damn quickly, go ahead and try it in literally any school and try to appeal to the court, see how quickly it fails.

Yes, but the school does not have the right to mandate your beliefs or your harmless expression. Liking a post outside of school is not the same as bullying another student.

It's not mandating their belifs. They're saying "If you're going to be prejudiced, we don't want you here." which is a perfectly reasonable thing, and if you like a post that is encouraging loveual orientation discrimination can be construed as encouraging loveual orientation discrimination.

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[Foxscotch]

I don't have a problem with someone being a homoloveual, it's the fact that they constantly toss their loveual preference in everyone elses' face that makes it so disgusting.

it certainly sounds like you have a problem with it

[McZealot]

Correct you are

No, it isn't. If a school decided to suspend all black students do you think that would be supported in a court of law? It's a reason. What if they suspended all supporters of a political party?

This thread is full of anti-gay bigots pretending to be innocent and making the "they can be gay I just don't want to see their disgusting activity" argument. If the straight kids can kiss publicly, so can the gays.

[Kansas]

My school has a separate prom for lgbtq kids

Stupid really

They have the same rights as everyone else and shouldn't have to avoid something due to pricks being uptight

Maybe they should identify as homoloveual instead of lgbtg

[Col. Derontchi]

straight people and white people don't need to be told that it's okay to be straight and whitethere probably

kinda funny coming from a feminist

[sir dooble]

queer which is redundant AND a slur and should therefore not be included

Not that I really have a say in it, but I would agree that it would make sense not to have Queer included in the acronym.
But apparently to some people they like the word, or find it empowering, or want to appropriate (right word?) it for themselves.
In the same way I suppose that some black people are fine with using the word "monday", claiming it as their own in retaliation to it having been used against them.

[Glass Joe]

-snip, accidentally made a post-

[Col. Derontchi]

it certainly sounds like you have a problem with it

I think you know well what he actually meant.

The sooner gays quit demanding special treatment, the sooner they are treated as equals. That being said, I do not mean along the lines of wanting legal equality. I mean making such a huge. loving. deal about it.

[McZealot]

Not that I really have a say in it, but I would agree that it would make sense not to have Queer included in the acronym.
But apparently to some people they like the word, or find it empowering, or want to appropriate (right word?) it for themselves.
In the same way I suppose that some black people are fine with using the word "monday", claiming it as their own in retaliation to it having been used against them.

I thought the Q stood for Questioning, not Queer? Makes more sense.

[IkeTheGeneric]

because straight people and white people don't need to be told that it's okay to be straight and white

It should be taught that it's okay to be who they are without having to be afraid of expressing themselves, regardless of race, ethnicity, loveuality or gender

[General]

I understand what some of these people mean though, some gay people I know just have to show off their loveual identity... They're like those guys who love to rev their engine to show off

[Ipquarx]

The sooner gays quit demanding special treatment, the sooner they are treated as equals. That being said, I do not mean along the lines of wanting legal equality. I mean making such a huge. loving. deal about it.

It is a pretty big deal, in almost a third of the states gay people don't have equal rights that straight people do. It's just as big a deal as if black people marrying was suddenly made illegal.

[sir dooble]

I thought the Q stood for Questioning, not Queer? Makes more sense.

Maybe.

There's not exactly a single LGBT+ society/club.
There are lots of little ones, for individual towns, cities, schools, universities, even charities and countries.
Each one can use their own acronym and definition.

My college society named themselves LGBT+ to include LGBT and essentially anything else non Heteroloveual.
My Uni however uses LGBTQ, where I'm pretty sure Q means Queer.

[Col. Derontchi]

It is a pretty big deal, in almost a third of the states gay people don't have equal rights that straight people do. It's just as big a deal as if black people marrying was suddenly made illegal.

I said excluding legal rights.

[Foxscotch]

kinda funny coming from a feminist

that's kinda funny coming from a straight white guy...

But apparently to some people they like the word, or find it empowering, or want to appropriate (right word?) it for themselves.

that's one thing, and I don't care if you want to say that you're "queer"
but using it as a umbrella term is the wrong thing to do, and you shouldn't call some random gay person "queer" either

I mean making such a huge. loving. deal about it.

define this. tell me exactly what you mean by it. no vagueness

some gay people I know just have to show off their loveual identity

explain this, too