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Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck
Regardless of some of the details of this story that I missed (the kid defying orders), you can't deny the general hostility in the public mind towards christianity these days.
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Quick, catch those goalposts!
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Those things are so far apart that your point is in opposite orbits of planets on the opposite side of the galaxy.
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They're only different in degree, not in essence. They're both protesting a rule by defiantly breaking the rule.
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
The Student in question wasn't pursuing an illegal act, he wasn't walking up to Muslims and screaming in their face while stabbing a picture of Mohammed.
He was wearing a shirt with a slogan, nothing more.
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In the context of the school he was doing an "illegal" act. The difference between breaking a school rule while on school property and breaking a law while on school property is in degree; the rules apply to the students just like the laws do.