In denying the student’s motion for a preliminary injunction, the judge found that a Middleborough, Massachusetts high school was likely within its rights to forbid the student from wearing a t-shirt saying “There Are Only Two Genders.”
Just Talwani consumed 17 pages to explain her ruling. The first six pages or so were a detailed, microscopic recitation of the entire incident, from start to finish, who said what to whom, who walked up which hallway, who was at the meeting, and so forth. It is not clear why any of those details were necessary, except that they showed the student was at all times clear in assertion of his rights, respectful, and non-confrontational.
Sounds like there was some good parenting somewhere in there.
It was clear which way things were going from the beginning of the order, which began by citing an affidavit from a school administrator that swore she knew several LGBTQ+ students who either attempted suicide or had suicidal thoughts. The judge did not consider whether any suicidal thoughts could be caused by banal t-shirt messages, or whether there might be a different underlying cause of both suicidal feelings as well as sexual confusion.
That reasoning is not logic. It’s the classic, emotionally manipulative false dichotomy: “Would you rather have a live son or a dead daughter?”
Ultimately the judge decided that the limited infringement of the student’s free speech rights at school — she mentioned his unlimited social media rights outside school — was justified or outweighed by the benefits to protecting delicate LGBTQ+ students’ minds from encountering any type of information that challenged their fragile world view.
In other words, the judge did NOT say L.M. was altogether forbidden from saying “there are only two genders”; he just can’t say it at school because inclusion. In fairness, minor students only enjoy LIMITED constitutional rights. Schools act in loco parentis — they wield custodial parental rights — and parents obviously have right to squelch kids’ speech anytime they want, for any reason, and kids can’t complain to the courts. This dynamic was often painfully obvious on many a Childers family road trip.
All the same, the decision is bad precedent, because “inclusion” trumped the Constitution. Inclusion wasn’t even a thing more than ten minutes ago.
The courts saved us from the pandemic. Now, we have to save the courts — from wokeness. It’s going to be a long, difficult fight, so buckle up.
Finally, I have a suggestion for L.M., or for any other industrious, freedom-loving Nichols High School student who would like to further pressure the grievance system. Try this: wear to school a t-shirt with the following Bible verse printed on it:
So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them. — Gen. 1:27.
You could underline the words “male and female he created them,” or even paint them in rainbow colors or something. In other words, in a new lawsuit, force the judge to reason her way around BOTH the free speech right AND the right of religious liberty, and in doing so, be required to find that the first words of the Bible — one of this country’s foundational documents — are “hate speech.”
Hint: the Bible is not hate speech. As they say, God IS love.
God used a rich man to provide Jesus with a tomb for resurrection. He also used wealthy men and women to provide for him and his followers when they spread the good news. Today, God still uses the wealthy. The danger in being wealthy is that you can miss the fact that you are in need of Christ. Only in sickness (even with the best of healthcare) and in some natural disasters are you made aware of your actual helplessness and smallness.
It is the love of money that is the issue, not money itself. The bible does have a lot to say about money, poverty, generosity etc. To feel superior to the rich is also prideful, which is sin. Rich or poor we all need the Lord.
Well said, Kathaleena. No matter our financial and outward status, we all need the Lord. We need that second birth. In my Bible study group that meets daily at various times online, one lady in a foreign nation, probably considered third world, said that the true Chrissians are called the Born Agains. Isn’t that a nice way to distinguish the inward status? Of course only God truly knows the heart.
Most economic systems are inherently exploitive and are time limited hence we involve the state to provide stability and a little bit of equity. Some rich people are actively exploitive – Gates, Epstein, Trump, Bezos, slum landlords, etc – whereas other rich people are more passive in their exploitation. Despite the latter having the wealth and power to change the exploitative systems, they choose to let it continue in the interest of maintaining their wealth.
NJ – interesting article and court case. Canada gives minors far more rights than the US. By the age of 12, you can choose your parent and make medical decisions hence the in place of parent rule doesn’t do much for school dress codes. More or less, we don’t have any rules. However, saying “there are only two genders” might be considered hate speech; depending on the school or teachers. I honestly don’t think anyone would care though. As for a Bible verse, religious rights would trump hate speech rules. I’ve had students with religious slogan T-shirts – no one cares, we’ve got more important things to worry about; like the math curriculum. Watching two girls work on a project one with a Islamic charity shirt and the other with Christian camp t-shirt tells me we shouldn’t worry too much about what people wear.
I sometimes wonder if the American school system is more concerned about control than education; that goes for every side of a debate.
The American school system needs to get back to academics and step out of whatever it is dominating the school hours. If a child can read and write and do basic math, there are enough “free” assets available to get a full education. Too many are getting out of third grade without those skills.
Just pathetic. This is taxation with incompetent representation.
Guys, we just got John Fetterman introducing Joe Biden. It went exactly as you expected. If the Lincoln-Douglas debates represented the pinnacle of American democracy Biden-Fetterman represents the all time bottom. pic.twitter.com/WNQGgnRLJ9
“You’re not imagining this, folks. Armed federal agents are being weaponized to go after the Democrats’ political enemies, including industries they find disreputable. The liberal media’s echo chamber will work overtime to drown out these stories. They attempted to gaslight us on gas stoves. However, that pales compared to the Russian collusion hoax and how the Department of Justice has become the Democratic National Committee’s Stasi force.
The FBI is out of control, engaging in censorship schemes with social media companies, procuring illegal wiretap warrants, and seems hell-bent on protecting the Biden family even after their sources have compiled incriminating evidence of corruption. So, it’s not far-fetched to hear federal agents raided a Montana gun store, shut it down, and seized sensitive documents about private citizens (via The Blaze):
Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) is demanding answers after he says a group of armed IRS agents raided and temporarily closed a Montana gun shop in Great Falls Wednesday.
“This event is another example of President Biden weaponizing federal agencies to target and harass hardworking Americans for exercising their constitutional rights,” Rosendale said in a letter to leaders of the Internal Revenue Service and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Twenty heavily armed federal agents pulled in behind Highwood Creek Outfitters’ owner Tom Van Hoose as he arrived at his shop Wednesday morning, KRTV reported.
IRS agents confiscated background check forms from the store that contained sensitive personal information about all customers who ever purchased a gun at the shop. The forms do not include financial information, Rosendale said, calling the act an “egregious breach of privacy” that “showed no regard for federal law.”
“There is no circumstance in which 4473s would be necessary in an investigation spearheaded by the IRS,” Rosendale said in a letter addressed to ATF Director Steven Dettelbach and IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel. “
The media is garbage, just water carriers for Dems, example #879,876,921…
He’s called “Biden’s son,” but she’s dismissed as “ex-stripper.” This is journalistic sexism at its lowest. Why couldn’t the headline just as easily read, “Ex-crack addict dragged into court by mother of his child?” pic.twitter.com/9Fyr2yiMoB
The WH is doing all it can to erase and belittle women while upholding trash like his son as a monument of modernism and acceptance/worship of debauchery
BREAKING: Thousands of Catholics have shut down the main entrance to Dodger Stadium on Vin Scully avenue in protest of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence being honored tonight.
This behavior is deeply offensive and disrespectful towards Catholics and their faith. It is encouraging to witness the community's response in voicing their opposition to such an event, as it rightly acknowledges the offensive nature of the situation.
— Gianni, Spokeperson for None of These (@giannipov) June 17, 2023
Wandering Views 
Federal Judge Indira Talwani an Obama appointee:
In denying the student’s motion for a preliminary injunction, the judge found that a Middleborough, Massachusetts high school was likely within its rights to forbid the student from wearing a t-shirt saying “There Are Only Two Genders.”
Just Talwani consumed 17 pages to explain her ruling. The first six pages or so were a detailed, microscopic recitation of the entire incident, from start to finish, who said what to whom, who walked up which hallway, who was at the meeting, and so forth. It is not clear why any of those details were necessary, except that they showed the student was at all times clear in assertion of his rights, respectful, and non-confrontational.
Sounds like there was some good parenting somewhere in there.
It was clear which way things were going from the beginning of the order, which began by citing an affidavit from a school administrator that swore she knew several LGBTQ+ students who either attempted suicide or had suicidal thoughts. The judge did not consider whether any suicidal thoughts could be caused by banal t-shirt messages, or whether there might be a different underlying cause of both suicidal feelings as well as sexual confusion.
That reasoning is not logic. It’s the classic, emotionally manipulative false dichotomy: “Would you rather have a live son or a dead daughter?”
Ultimately the judge decided that the limited infringement of the student’s free speech rights at school — she mentioned his unlimited social media rights outside school — was justified or outweighed by the benefits to protecting delicate LGBTQ+ students’ minds from encountering any type of information that challenged their fragile world view.
In other words, the judge did NOT say L.M. was altogether forbidden from saying “there are only two genders”; he just can’t say it at school because inclusion. In fairness, minor students only enjoy LIMITED constitutional rights. Schools act in loco parentis — they wield custodial parental rights — and parents obviously have right to squelch kids’ speech anytime they want, for any reason, and kids can’t complain to the courts. This dynamic was often painfully obvious on many a Childers family road trip.
All the same, the decision is bad precedent, because “inclusion” trumped the Constitution. Inclusion wasn’t even a thing more than ten minutes ago.
The courts saved us from the pandemic. Now, we have to save the courts — from wokeness. It’s going to be a long, difficult fight, so buckle up.
Finally, I have a suggestion for L.M., or for any other industrious, freedom-loving Nichols High School student who would like to further pressure the grievance system. Try this: wear to school a t-shirt with the following Bible verse printed on it:
So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them. — Gen. 1:27.
You could underline the words “male and female he created them,” or even paint them in rainbow colors or something. In other words, in a new lawsuit, force the judge to reason her way around BOTH the free speech right AND the right of religious liberty, and in doing so, be required to find that the first words of the Bible — one of this country’s foundational documents — are “hate speech.”
Hint: the Bible is not hate speech. As they say, God IS love.
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God used a rich man to provide Jesus with a tomb for resurrection. He also used wealthy men and women to provide for him and his followers when they spread the good news. Today, God still uses the wealthy. The danger in being wealthy is that you can miss the fact that you are in need of Christ. Only in sickness (even with the best of healthcare) and in some natural disasters are you made aware of your actual helplessness and smallness.
It is the love of money that is the issue, not money itself. The bible does have a lot to say about money, poverty, generosity etc. To feel superior to the rich is also prideful, which is sin. Rich or poor we all need the Lord.
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Amen.
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Well said, Kathaleena. No matter our financial and outward status, we all need the Lord. We need that second birth. In my Bible study group that meets daily at various times online, one lady in a foreign nation, probably considered third world, said that the true Chrissians are called the Born Agains. Isn’t that a nice way to distinguish the inward status? Of course only God truly knows the heart.
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Most economic systems are inherently exploitive and are time limited hence we involve the state to provide stability and a little bit of equity. Some rich people are actively exploitive – Gates, Epstein, Trump, Bezos, slum landlords, etc – whereas other rich people are more passive in their exploitation. Despite the latter having the wealth and power to change the exploitative systems, they choose to let it continue in the interest of maintaining their wealth.
NJ – interesting article and court case. Canada gives minors far more rights than the US. By the age of 12, you can choose your parent and make medical decisions hence the in place of parent rule doesn’t do much for school dress codes. More or less, we don’t have any rules. However, saying “there are only two genders” might be considered hate speech; depending on the school or teachers. I honestly don’t think anyone would care though. As for a Bible verse, religious rights would trump hate speech rules. I’ve had students with religious slogan T-shirts – no one cares, we’ve got more important things to worry about; like the math curriculum. Watching two girls work on a project one with a Islamic charity shirt and the other with Christian camp t-shirt tells me we shouldn’t worry too much about what people wear.
I sometimes wonder if the American school system is more concerned about control than education; that goes for every side of a debate.
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The American school system needs to get back to academics and step out of whatever it is dominating the school hours. If a child can read and write and do basic math, there are enough “free” assets available to get a full education. Too many are getting out of third grade without those skills.
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Sad,and pathetic.
Fetterman is unfit.
https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/1670059572436819968?t=6AX3usk31SlYoM1nH01lhA&s=19
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Those who know nothing of weapons should shut their mouths, lest they reveal their ignorance.
https://twitter.com/TheAgeofShoddy/status/1670189255174524928?t=8os_Xjje5MbdLqs0DAbFSg&s=19
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So yes, the media lied again.
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They just keep feeding the beast.
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The 2 tiered justice system strikes again.
Dem donor has charges dropped.
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Just pathetic. This is taxation with incompetent representation.
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And the only one in the room understanding what that guy said was probably Biden!!
Truly one of the saddest displays of incompetence ever before the world to witness
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Corrupt, just like Biden.
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Is there any level Democrats won’t stoop too in order to defend the perverted criminals?
Just gross.
CONTENT WARNING!!!
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When the SPLC targets you, you’re usually doing something right. Wear it as a badge of honor.
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I see the garbage “fact checkers” are spewing garbage again.
Zero examples cited, but they’re just running cover for Biden, so this is the lie they put out as “mostly true”….
You know, were there’s actual examples….
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Biden’s Stasi are at it again.
This is why he wanted 80K armed agents, to crack down on your constitutional rights.
“Armed IRS Agents Shut Down Montana Gun Store in a ‘Soviet-style Intimidation’ Raid”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2023/06/17/it-begins-armed-irs-agents-swarm-colorado-gun-shop-n2624634
“You’re not imagining this, folks. Armed federal agents are being weaponized to go after the Democrats’ political enemies, including industries they find disreputable. The liberal media’s echo chamber will work overtime to drown out these stories. They attempted to gaslight us on gas stoves. However, that pales compared to the Russian collusion hoax and how the Department of Justice has become the Democratic National Committee’s Stasi force.
The FBI is out of control, engaging in censorship schemes with social media companies, procuring illegal wiretap warrants, and seems hell-bent on protecting the Biden family even after their sources have compiled incriminating evidence of corruption. So, it’s not far-fetched to hear federal agents raided a Montana gun store, shut it down, and seized sensitive documents about private citizens (via The Blaze):
Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) is demanding answers after he says a group of armed IRS agents raided and temporarily closed a Montana gun shop in Great Falls Wednesday.
“This event is another example of President Biden weaponizing federal agencies to target and harass hardworking Americans for exercising their constitutional rights,” Rosendale said in a letter to leaders of the Internal Revenue Service and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Twenty heavily armed federal agents pulled in behind Highwood Creek Outfitters’ owner Tom Van Hoose as he arrived at his shop Wednesday morning, KRTV reported.
IRS agents confiscated background check forms from the store that contained sensitive personal information about all customers who ever purchased a gun at the shop. The forms do not include financial information, Rosendale said, calling the act an “egregious breach of privacy” that “showed no regard for federal law.”
“There is no circumstance in which 4473s would be necessary in an investigation spearheaded by the IRS,” Rosendale said in a letter addressed to ATF Director Steven Dettelbach and IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel. “
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The media is garbage, just water carriers for Dems, example #879,876,921…
And the garbage media gleefully plays along….
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Counter point.
Meanwhile, inside the stadium where the Dodgers are honoring the pervs…..
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