Poway Student and District at Odds Over Anti-Gay Slogan
By Onell R. Soto
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
May 27, 2006 A San Diego federal judge was asked yesterday to decide whether Poway High School administrators acted properly when they pulled a student from class for wearing an anti-gay slogan on his T-shirt two years ago.
Lawyers for the Poway Unified School District and religious legal groups backing the student both asked Judge John A. Houston to find there is no need for a trial in the case, but for different reasons.
Lawyers for Tyler Chase Harper are asking Houston to find the school’s ban on negative or offensive speech toward homosexuals unconstitutional.
The school district’s lawyers are asking him to rule that school officials did nothing wrong when Harper wore a T-shirt with the words “Homosexuality is shameful,” his paraphrase of a Bible verse.
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