Minneapolis, Minn., Oct 29, 2008 / 01:13 am
A sixth grader will be allowed to wear his pro-life t-shirts to school following a Minnesota federal judge’s recent ruling. The decision came after a lawsuit alleging the student’s constitutional rights were violated by his school principal and teachers, who disciplined him for wearing the shirts.
“This is a great victory for freedom of speech and the pro-life movement,” said Brandon Bolling, the lead counsel in the case from the Thomas More Law Center.
In the lawsuit, the student at Hutchinson Middle School in Hutchinson, Minnesota was named only as “K.B.” He reportedly wore several different pro-life t-shirts to school to communicate his belief that abortion wrongfully takes innocent life and is a grave offense to God.
The boy wore three different t-shirts produced by the American Life League. They bore statements such as “Abortion… growing, growing, gone,” “What part of abortion don’t you understand?” and “Never Known – Not Forgotten.”