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‘That’s so gay’ prompts a lawsuit
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| Contributor | The Sunset Provision |
| Last Edited | The Sunset Provision Mar 01, 2007 12:19am |
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| News Date | Thursday, March 1, 2007 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | SANTA ROSA, Calif. - When a few classmates razzed Rebekah Rice about her Mormon upbringing with questions such as, "Do you have 10 moms?" she shot back: "That's so gay."
Those three words landed the high school freshman in the principal's office and resulted in a lawsuit that raises this question: When do playground insults used every day all over America cross the line into hate speech that must be stamped out?
After Rice got a warning and a notation in her file, her parents sued, claiming officials at Santa Rosa's Maria Carillo High violated their daughter's First Amendment rights when they disciplined her for uttering a phrase "which enjoys widespread currency in youth culture," according to court documents.
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