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They think the First Amendment is threatened by high school graduations on church property but not by a federal mandate forcing Catholic institutions to provide abortifacients. But sometimes, even the ACLU can’t ignore it’s own stated principles. Such an occasion has just occurred in Wolcott.

On April 20, Wolcott High School junior, Seth Groody, was denied his right to free speech when he was forced to remove a t-shirt that opposed homosexuality. The day was assigned as a Day of Silence at the school on behalf of a national movement to raise awareness to the harassment of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered individuals.

Groody was merely enacting his own right to express his views on the subject and his distaste for the school’s message in supporting such behavior. Evidently, Wolcott High was playing a game of favorites, advocating one group’s right to speech over another’s.

Surprisingly, the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut came to the student’s defense, stating that he should have the right, just as anyone else, to express his opinion. The ACLU even sent a letter to the principal of the high school in defense of Groody’s rights as protected under the Constitution.

“The impulse to suppress ideas that we find unpleasant is antithetical to freedom and democracy,” said Sandra Staub, legal director of the ACLU of Connecticut.

While pro-family supporters of Connecticut consistently fall on opposing sides of the radical and destructive values of the ACLU, credit should be given where credit is due.

One Response to “Even A Broken Clock Is Right Twice A Day”

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