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balderdash.
I find this viewpoint a bit disconcerting coming from someone purporting to be a libertarian.
Depending on your location and to varying degrees you can carry weapons in public places.
Personally it is an affront on our rights that this isn't a universal allowance.
Hold on now. Do you hear what you're saying?
Your preference trumps my RIGHTS? Au contraire mon frere. Rights aren't limited to the anyone's individual tastes, and especially not limited by prejudice.
I find this viewpoint a bit disconcerting coming from someone purporting to be a libertarian.
Depending on your location and to varying degrees you can carry weapons in public places.
Personally it is an affront on our rights that this isn't a universal allowance.
Hold on now. Do you hear what you're saying?
Your preference trumps my RIGHTS? Au contraire mon frere. Rights aren't limited to the anyone's individual tastes, and especially not limited by prejudice.
To some people, the Lord's prayer might be offensive. Perhaps I'm a satanist?
Well then God bless ya...
:lamo Okay then. I guess you told me!
Well, I'm not, but if I was I might find the Lord's prayer offensive, just as you might find the Satan's prayer offensive or cursing offensive.
They're kids that we're talking about here, high school students. :roll:
I did, and it was quite something.
:wow:
and the lessen you want to teach them is to bow before the omnipotent government...got it!
Because you might find it offensive, does that mean another person's freedom of speech and religious expression needs to be restricted?
Respect for rules and how to follow them. That is just part of being a grown-up. :shrug: Grown-ups who don't follow rules are called "criminals."
During a school sponsored event, such as a graduation, it does. The whole ceremony is a privilege put on by the school actually.
Someone's rules do not trump another's rights...
when i speak about issues like these, i always ask myself a question....and one is " who's property is it"
i am a strong supporter of private property rights, and when pubic property is in play, you cant treat it like private, their are limitations on your rights when your on public property.
I'm sorry, but just because some may be offended is not a good enough reason to restrict someone's rights as expressed in the Constitution...
You would be wrong about that. At school sponsored events, the school is allowed to restrict any speech that they think could be offensive or align them with a particular religious denomination. The Supreme Court says that they can, as long as it is not a horrible infringement, but they are certainly allowed to approve or restrict certain content.
and you can't believe how incredibly offensive I find that viewpoint. As I stated, so long as you aren't promoting hate, inciting violence, or promoting something illegal anything and everything should be allowed on public property because no one person owns it, it is owed, in theory anyhow, by the public. Everyone. So everyone has a right to do as they see fit, everything but the above exclusions.
On private property, again you can do as you please, save the above exclusions. You just have to be prepared to leave peacefully should the owners of that private property demand it.
Was it? I've forgotten already. :mrgreen: Something about bald I think.
Children's rights are not at the same level as the rights of an adult. Did you not realize that?
I really don't care what the SCOTUS has ruled. They are humans and are subject to prejudices as we all are. I'm not a very PC person...
HS graduates are not children, and I didn't notice a distinction in the Constitution between children and adults...
Respect for rules and how to follow them. That is just part of being a grown-up. :shrug: Grown-ups who don't follow rules are called "criminals."
Look, schools have a right to maintain some semblance of order. They are dealing with children, a lot of them petulant. I'm sure that when your children were small, they couldn't say whatever they liked to you and your wife. Were you restricting their rights? I don't think so. You are just being stubborn and trying to look upon children as though they are adults and expected to just behave like one. That's just not the case most of the time unfortunately.