{"id":2265,"date":"2015-11-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2015-11-29T09:57:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T15:57:18","slug":"aclu-sues-tennessee-school-district-for-banning-rainbow-clothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2265","title":{"rendered":"ACLU sues Tennessee school district for banning rainbow clothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The ACLU has sued the Giles County, Tennessee school board for a dress code policy that bans any clothing that supports GLBT issues, including rainbow clothing.<\/p>\n<p>The issue was initially raised when Richland High School student Rebecca Young wore a shirt that said &#8220;Some People Are Gay, Get Over It: on the first day of school last year. The principal reprimanded the student for wearing the shirt, and Superintendent Philip Wright defended the policy.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2015\/11\/25\/school-faces-lawsuit-for-banning-rainbows-and-some-people-are-gay-get-over-it-t-shirts\/\">PinkNews<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The dress code does not specifically mention LGBT symbols, but states: ?Clothing and accessories bearing slogans that are about or suggestive of drugs, alcohol, sex, obscenities or prove to be a disturbing influence shall not be allowed in the Giles County School System.?<\/p>\n<p>The ACLU has this week filed a claim with the district court, after the school board failed to heed warnings that rules banning LGBT self-expression ?violates important federal Constitutional rights and must be rescinded immediately?.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman The ACLU has sued the Giles County, Tennessee school board for a dress code policy that bans any clothing that supports GLBT issues, including rainbow clothing. The issue was initially raised when Richland High School student Rebecca Young wore a shirt that said &#8220;Some People Are Gay, Get Over It: on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[517,111,103],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-aclu","tag-schools","tag-tennessee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}