Girl in tuxedo denied a place in school yearbook
By Chris Joyner, USA TODAY
(http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-10-18-yearbook-photo-lesbian_N.htm?poe=HFMostPopular)
Summary: 17-year-old Ceara Sturgis is a straight-A student, a goalie on the soccer team, a trumpet player in the band and active in Students Against Destructive Decisions. She is also gay and prefers to wear boy’s clothes. In July she decided that she was going to wear a tuxedo for her senior portraits. Now she is battling officials at Wesson Attendance Center in the Copiah County School District to get her picture into the yearbook. Candace Gingrich of the Human Rights Campaign said that it is not uncommon for LGBT students to have this issue with their schools. The district has been warned by the Mississippi chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union that they are violating Sturgis’ constitutionally protected freedom of expression. However, the district’s attorney has assured Superintendent Ricky Clopton that they are within their rights to exclude the photo.
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what a bunch of crap?! How? How are they within their rights to deny a senior their photo in the yearbook? It is not like it is an offensive picture! what the heck.
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