Some students at University of Maryland want to show a triple-X rated film on campus, ostensibly for its educational value.
A state legislator wants to penalize the university by withholding fund if the film is shown.
A teenage girl in northern Virginia is suspended for popping a birth control pill on school grounds on school time.
in the first case, the turnout for the film will be far greater thanks to the legislator's action. Before it was a low-profile issue.
Now it's Freedom of Speech.
I'm not "into" porn, but I am "into" free speech - providing no one is yelling FIRE! in a crowded theatre and providing there is a dialogue versus just shouting someone down because that person's opinion is unlike yours.
I think punishing the university, where freedom of speech is supposed to be sacred, is wrong.
I think making a "big deal" of the event is stupid; it just provides free advertising.
The school district that send the teenager home has a rule that all students know about that basically states: the only drugs that can be taken on campus during school hours are those prescribed by a physician.
Birth control pills, I gather, should be taken at "about" the same time every day.
I don't know what happens if a dose is missed - that's a "girl thing" - but I cannot understand why the pill HAD to be taken at school.
Flaunting her (physical) "maturity?" Showing how she threatened her mother with pregnancy to get a promiscuity pill? (No, I know there are legitimate reasons for The Pill and other birth control methods and that not all women who take The Pill are promiscuous.)
Either way, if the girl paid any attention to the school's rules she must have known her action would result in a negative - for her, anyway - reaction from the administration.
Naturally the mother, unembarrassed by her daughter's promiscuity, took umbrage at the administration's action and wrote to a local newspaper. (That's something to consider. In this electronic media age, why did she go to a newspaper rather than a tv station? Maybe she knows that tv people read newspapers so they can get the news they air later in the day. Truth in writing: I am an old newspaper reporter and editor, of course, reader.)
Yohanon
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