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12/4/2006
3:12:48 pm EST
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Women's Group Suing Rhode Island College Over Free Speech
Author: Eric Tucker, Associated Press Source: Boston Globe (MA)
Title: WOMEN'S GROUP SUING RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE OVER FREE SPEECH
A women's group at Rhode Island College is suing the school, saying its free speech rights were violated when campus police took down signs bearing the message "Keep Your Rosaries Off Our Ovaries."
The Women's Studies Organization posted the signs near a campus entrance last December to coincide with a day of activism for women's rights. But police removed the signs within a few hours after a priest on his way to conduct a weekly Mass observed them and alerted the president of the public college, the students said.
The president, John Nazarian, then ordered the signs taken down, according to a federal lawsuit filed Monday on behalf of the students by the Rhode Island branch of the American Civil Liberties Union.
"The issue is this is a public university, and a public university can't abridge anyone's free speech rights -- including the students," said Jennifer Azevedo, an ACLU volunteer attorney.
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| If You Want Your Own | Dec 5th. at 9:33:45 am EST
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Liriel (Lehigh Acres, Florida) - Email Me
t-shirts with the same message are available at Cafepress.
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| Wimps | Dec 4th. at 10:52:14 pm EST
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Ahr-Ohn (Bridgeport, Connecticut) - Email Me
"The college was not objecting to the use of the signs or the message the signs carried," Fusco said. "The college was concerned about the location of the signage and that, at the time, it didn't have a program associated with it."
They'd do an awful lot better, to remove those signs as bigotted attacks on a religious minority.
Those who kneel before Graven Images of the Papist Persuasion are at least as deserving of protection as those who do so before Jocks.
It's the Rosary Comment, poetic as it may have tried to be, that put it on the level of "Keep the Hebes off our Laws."
Arawn
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| Here's One I Like ! | Dec 4th. at 10:23:07 pm EST
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Libertarian (Langley, Washington) - Email Me - Web
Keep Abortion Legal and Safe
Don't Labor Under Misconseptions.
Blessings
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