In response to school officials telling his middle-school son to remove his pro-life T-shirt, a Pennsylvania father is challenging the school's rules in court.
William Boyer filed suit in U.S. District Court with the help of the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF).
According to court documents, school officials at Crossroads Middle School in Lewisberry objected to his son's shirt that read, "Abortion is not Healthcare." He wore it to school on Sept. 8, the day President Obama gave his televised address to students.
In the filing, Boyer called it "draconian censorship" of his son's religious and political speech.
David Cortman, an ADF attorney, is representing the student and his father. He said the boy was told his shirt might "insult somebody."
"I don't think I've ever seen a policy that's this bad, constitutionally speaking," Cortman said. "It says that students are prohibited from seeking to establish the supremacy of a particularly religious point of view."
According to the policy, he said, a student could not make the claim that his beliefs are true.
"It's political correctness gone amok," Cortman added. "It shows there's a widespread need for schools to be educated about the First Amendment."
