In a victory for all who know “Abortion is Homicide”, a Gwinnett County public school has backed off attempts to prevent student Brian Ramirez from wearing clothing that carries the phrase! Brian, who attends Maxwell High School of Technology every school day morning for a three-hour auto collision repair technology class, would at times wear shirts that carried statements like “Abortion is Homicide” on the front and “You will not silence my message; you will not mock my God, and you will stop killing my generation.” on the back. He is a senior at Collins Hill High School. While the administration at Collins Hill High School never expressed any issues with his clothing, a teacher at Maxwell did start taking issue with his choice of shirts some days. He was asked to remove his shirt or turn it inside out. The teacher says he had heard some complaints from others in the school about the shirts. Brian refused and was given a ZERO for the day, every day he wore a shirt that the teacher objected to.

The linked article above mentions:

Now if he was wearing all white shoes and the teacher said take them off, I doubt the school would have gone along with disciplinary action! Although the assistant principal attempts to spin the issue, this is all about the content on the shirt!

Well Brian’s parents contacted ACLU killers The Alliance Defense Fund. (The best Anti-ACLU group in the land !) Also Brian’s issue started getting national attention among various pro-life circles. After that attention and a strongly worded letter from the ADF, Brian’s record has been cleaned and all zeros removed!

The ADF letter to the school principle mentions:

And the rest is history! Brian can wear his shirts and express his feelings as a child who is against the murder of children in the womb!

I say job well done!

The “black armbands” reference in the ADF letter is regarding the US Supreme Court Case Tinker v. Des Moines (1969). You can read summaries of that case and other related cases at the following web sites:

• LandmarkCases.org: Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
• University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law: Free Speech Rights of Students