If you’ve been watching the news, a big topic lately has been gay teens committing suicide due to being bullied. Or even recently one teenager killed himself because he was bullied over being perceived as gay tho he was only emo.

A school in Chicago has an “Ally Week” to try to raise awareness and help combat the issue. A few students wear “Straight Pride” t-shirts to school and some people had a problem with it:

“It was honestly just really upsetting to me that someone would try to bring that into school,” said Joe Adamczyk, a senior who is a member of the Gay-Straight Alliance. “I thought society was sort of beyond this, but it feels like we’re kind of regressing.”

It’s honestly just really upsetting to me that you can’t understand  some people would have an opinion different from yours. But it’s not surprising to me that you’re not tolerant of it. You want people to be tolerant of you, it starts by you first being tolerant of them.

 

Deans met with the students, and after establishing that there was no threat of physical harm to others, asked the students to cross out a portion of the Biblical passage with permanent marker.

When two different students came to school the next day wearing homemade “Straight Pride” shirts — without the Biblical passage — administrators asked them to cover up with sweatshirts.

Students in both cases agreed, [Jim Blaney, director of school and community relations for St. Charles Unit District 303] said, adding that the incident was delicate because the shirts’ messages were phrased as a viewpoint, touching on students’ First Amendment rights.

“What we are trying to do is help students learn that while they have a right to advocate a cause and they certainly have a right to free speech, at the same time, they also have to understand that … people might perceive their message is offensive,” he said.

 

So removing the Bibical passage… OK, public school, separation of church and state, that’s fine (maybe). But then next day same essential shirts but they need to cover up the shirts. Why?

Oh I see. Because the message might be offensive.

Where in your glorious First Amendment does it say you have a right to not be offended? Is 1A not about protecting unpopular speech?

Why do we have this double-standard in our society? Why is it OK to say “Gay Pride” but not “Straight Pride”? It’s the same notion, advocating the same essential thing. I reason there are people in this world that find “Gay Pride” offensive, so why aren’t they told to cover up their shirts? Why aren’t they suppressed?

It’s the same thing with something like “Black Power” vs. “White Power”. To have “Black Power” is a source of ethnic pride and solidarity. It’s OK to be proud of being black. But to have “White Power” means you’re racist, a Nazi, and nothing that you can vocally be proud of. Why not? I’m sure there are some people who find the notion of “Black Power” to be offensive, so why aren’t they allowed to say so?

I’m not offended by gays. I’m not offended by straights. I’m not offended by blacks. I’m not offended by whites. What I am offended by is inconsistency in logic and application of policy. But I suppose I’m not allowed to be offended by that since political correctness is all about inconsistent logic.