Newflash: Judge declares "I love boobies" is not sexual.

 A federal appeals court ruled Monday that a Pennsylvania school district cannot ban "I (heart) Boobies!" bracelets, rejecting the district's claim that the slogan — designed to promote breast cancer awareness among young people — is lewd.

Federal Court of Appeals!

Now let me see, Students cannot wear American Flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo, but wearing explicit bracelets is OK?

America, What is happening to us?

The teens, Brianna Hawk and Kayla Martinez, testified that they merely hoped to promote awareness of the disease at their middle school. They filed suit when they were suspended for defying the ban on their school's Breast Cancer Awareness Day.

Really? How Noble!  I don't buy it.

OK , a couple of alarm bells go off for me here. First, this is middle school, and second, Hey this is middle school!

Hormones and curiosity people.

What teenage boy seeing that, is going to equate "I love/heart boobies" with breast cancer?? They are teenagers, but they are not idiots. 
So, If my son decides to wear a shirt with a penis on it and then defends himself by saying that he is advocating prostate awareness, is that OK too? Of course it is!

When are we going to stop the insanity?!

So these girls decide that not being able to wear their "I love/heart boobies" bracelets at school is a violation, so they decide to call who? You guessed it, The American Civil Liberties Union, because this is obviously a terrible blow to their civil liberties.

How do we sleep at night America, knowing that such travesties are occurring around the country, right under our noses? Perhaps millions of poor teenage Americans unable to display their lewd bracelets. 

Thank heaven's for this "Mrs. Kravitz" organization that seeks justice for the downtrodden.

ACLU lawyer Mary Catherine Roper said the ruling supports the rights of students to discuss important topics."It explicitly says school children talk about important things, and when they (do) ... that's the kind of speech we want to protect and promote". 

Philadelphia must be heaven on Earth, because I cannot imagine any middle school having "important" conversations involving " I heart boobies", but I CAN imagine a lot of unimportant conversations it will start. 

The full appeals court elected to hear the school district's appeal in February. During those arguments, Judge Dolores Sloviter said she did not see the slogan as sexual, and told the packed courtroom that she had once lost a colleague on the court to breast cancer.

Is this what it comes down to? Emotional politics?

The 74 page ruling has left this school in quite a quandary as to where to draw the line as   "increasingly aggressive double-entendres come into school in the guise of some social or political cause, "said District Lawyer John Freund.

But most disturbing of all is that schools cannot limit student speech involving social commentary, even if it "could reasonably be deemed lewd, vulgar, plainly offensive, or constituting sexual innuendo."

Oh America..... the land of opportunity.

Attention all marketers, You have a new market base. Run, don't walk, to your nearest T-shirt wholesaler, because this, is an opportunity NOT to be missed.

Scary!

OK, sarcasm aside, can't we come up with a reasonable solution to hinder these trivial civil right infraction lawsuits? ( I am certainly not saying that this is one, trivial yes, civil rights infraction, No!)

The Civil Rights Movement was a monumental movement that changed our world for the better. 
But the ACLU and others are hijacking this movement to pursue their immoral agenda. 

Are we such a rich country that we can afford the luxury to take even our most minuet offences through litigation?

Shouldn't we also be posing the question as to why the Breast Cancer Awareness Foundation should be allowed to market such important awareness this way? They come up with a controversial slogan, the courts run through years of litigation and America pays the bill. Must we tie up the court system with such irrelevance? 

Wouldn't it have been so much better for the school to be able to insist; On Breast Cancer Awareness Day, if you wish to advocate for the organization, the means of your promotion must actually have a reference to breast cancer?

Why was this not the obvious solution? 

Go ahead and wear your bracelets, but school is not the place for them. 

Breast Cancer is very real! This is serious business. But, this is not the way to create awareness. 

I am tired of my countries moral compass being manipulated in the court system, and the sneaky ways the ACLU uses triviality to do it.

Our teenagers base natures are not game for marketing tactics no matter how important the cause.


Even if in the right setting, there is nothing wrong with loving boobies.