FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MANDATES UNCONSTITUTIONAL SPEECH CODES AT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES NATIONWIDE
"In a shocking affront to the United States Constitution, the U.S.
Departments of Justice and Education have joined together to mandate
that virtually every college and university in the United States
establish unconstitutional speech codes that violate the First Amendment
and decades of legal precedent.
Among the forms of expression now punishable on America's campuses by order of the federal government are:
- Any expression related to sexual topics that offends any person. This leaves a wide range of expressive activity—a campus performance of "The Vagina Monologues," a presentation on safe sex practices, a debate about sexual morality, a discussion of gay marriage, or a classroom lecture on Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita—subject to discipline.
- Any sexually themed joke overheard by any person who finds that joke offensive for any reason.
- Any request for dates or any flirtation that is not welcomed by the recipient of such a request or flirtation.
There
is likely no student on any campus anywhere who is not guilty of at
least one of these "offenses." Any attempt to enforce this rule
evenhandedly and comprehensively will be impossible." [F.I.R.E.]
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