{"id":163078,"date":"2017-02-24T15:15:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T20:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=163078"},"modified":"2017-02-25T08:30:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T13:30:11","slug":"indian-high-school-pro-life-club-wins-effort-hang-pro-adoption-banner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/indian-high-school-pro-life-club-wins-effort-hang-pro-adoption-banner\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana high school pro-life club wins effort to hang pro-adoption banner"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Carmel Teens for Life, a pro-life student group at Carmel High School in Carmel, Indiana, won in its efforts\u00a0to hang a pro-adoption sign at the\u00a0school. Liberty Counsel, which represented the students’ right to free speech,\u00a0reported<\/a> this week:<\/p>\n

Last fall, student members of Carmel Teens for Life… spent over 25 hours painting a\u00a0poster display<\/a>\u00a0which included 300 individual tiny hearts, each representing 10 lives, to symbolize the written statement \u201c3,000 Lives Are Ended Each Day.\u201d When one student complained to an administrator that it was \u201coffensive,\u201d school officials threw the poster away without consulting with the pro-life club\u2019s leadership. School officials later claimed the multi-part poster impermissibly expressed an \u201cideology\u201d and was \u201cnot approved for display.\u201d The poster was, in fact, approved for display, as evidenced by approval stamps on each of its component pages, and it complied with school signage guidelines to the letter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In defense of its actions, school leadership claimed club signs are not allowed to “interfere[] with what folks are thinking or feeling comfortable with” — though Liberty Counsel notes that “signs from other organizations promoting ideologies such as pro-LGBT and pro-Young Democrats [we]re allowed.”<\/p>\n