High-School Students Suspended for Wearing Anti-Gay T-Shirts
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By LAUREL ROSENHALL
A handful of students were suspended from a high school here for refusing to take off anti-gay T-shirts that administrators said were inappropriate.
The shirts, which the students wore in protest of the Day of Silence, said "Sodomy is sin" and quoted a Bible passage about homosexuality.
Phil Spears, interim principal of Rio Linda High School, said the shirts violated the school’s dress code. Students were asked to take them off, he said, and were suspended if they disobeyed the request.
"They’re offensive to some people and disruptive to school," he said. "Kids are going to react to these."
And that they did.
Protests were not nearly as large or inflammatory Wednesday as at other schools last year. Some of the suspended students and their supporters staged an after-school protest outside Rio Linda High. They held signs saying, "School censors Bible," "School bans free speech" and "Don’t silence Christians."
They were met by another group of students wearing shirts that said "Day of Silence." Some of them described themselves as lesbians, others said they wore the shirts in support of gay friends or family members.
"The Day of Silence is about stopping gay bashing," said Brittinnie McHenry, a Rio Linda freshman. "Imagine all those people who are silenced because they got bashed or killed."
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