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'Jesus, Jesus! Don't bogart the bong!' - The Last Munchies
Court Upholds "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" Banner
from Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO -
An Alaska high school violated a student's free speech rights by suspending him after he unfurled a banner reading "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" across the street from the school, a federal court ruled on Friday. Joseph Frederick, a student at Juneau-Douglas High School in Alaska, displayed the banner - which refers to smoking marijuana -- in January 2002 to try to get on television as the Olympic torch relay was passing the school.
Principal Deborah Morse seized the banner and suspended the 18-year-old for 10 days, saying he had undermined the school's educational mission and anti-drug stance.
Friday's ruling by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco overturned a decision by a federal court in Alaska that backed Frederick's suspension and said his rights were not violated.
The appeals court said the banner was protected speech because it did not disrupt school activity and was displayed off school grounds during a non-curricular activity.
"Public
schools are instrumentalities of government, and government is not entitled to suppress speech that undermines whatever missions it defines for itself," Judge Andrew Kleinfeld wrote in the court's opinion.
Darren Said, Let There Be Post! at 12:55 PM
2 Comments:
Revalations was most likely written in a drug ('shrooms? ) induced haze. The holy annointing oil of the old testament most likely had marijuana as a ingredient. Bong hits for Jesus? If Jesus could do for my favourite hooka filler as he fictionally did for the loaves and fish I'd end my blaspheming days and repent every day.Fire up that fatty J.C., don't let Judas know what we are doing- I think he's a narc.
I'd be right behind you. That's what makes those damn rastafarians so appealing. Seducing me with their pot-fueled mythologies! I might convert just for the connections.
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