NASHVILLE — A pro-family group filed suit in federal court June 2 on behalf of a California high school student who was suspended for wearing an anti-homosexuality T-shirt and was allegedly told to leave his faith “in the car.”
The Alliance Defense Fund filed a civil rights lawsuit in federal court on behalf of Chase Harper, a sophomore in the San Diego-area Poway Unified School District. The lawsuit claims Harper’s religious freedoms were violated when he was suspended for refusing to remove a homemade T-shirt that on the front read, “Be Ashamed” and “Our School Embraced What God Has Condemned,” and on the back read, “Homosexuality Is Shameful” and “Romans 1:27.”
Harper wore the T-shirt in April in protest of the Day of Silence, a homosexual-themed event that the ADF claims was school-sponsored. Nationally, the Day of Silence is sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, which says that some 300,000 students participated in the event this year.
“This is, I believe, the epitome of the cultural battle that we face as Christians — even within the church,” Alliance Defense Fund attorney Robert Tyler told Baptist Press. (TAB)
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