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First Amendment rights when it barred him from
his prom for wearing a dress.
K.K. Logan attended West Side High during his
junior and senior year and expressed a deeply root
ed femininity in his appearance and demeanor.
Both classmates and teachers at the school support
ed him in his daily attendance dressed in clothes
typically associated with girls his age.
However, on May 19, 2006, Principal Diane
Rouse stretched her arms across the door of the
senior prom, blocking Logan’s entrance, according
to the lawsuit. His classmates and friends rallied to
his defense to no avail, even though a female
student was allowed entrance dressed in a tuxedo.
Rouse has stood by a school policy that deems
inappropriate any “clothing/accessories that adver
tise sexual orientation, sex, drugs, alcohol, tobacco,
profanity, negative social or negative educational
statements.”
“The fact that sexual orientation is lumped in
with drugs and profanity in the school’s dress code
is just plain offensive, but even more troublesome
is that the whole policy is in violation of students’
First Amendment rights,” said James P. Madigan,
staff attorney in Lambda Legal’s Midwest regional
office in Chicago. “There are ways to write policies
that both create rules for student behavior and also
respect their rights—but this isn’t one of them."
Lambda Legal argues that Logan’s First
Amendment rights were violated, including the
freedoms of speech, symbolic action and expressive
conduct. The school district also engaged in unlaw
ful discrimination on the basis of sex and gender.
“1 dress this way because it’s who I am and how
1 feel on the inside,” said Logan.
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Huckabee Reiterates
Anti-Gay Messages
Presidential candidate and Christian conserva
tive darling Mike Huckabee told a gathering of
supporters Dec. 12 that he possessed the toughest
position against same-sex marriage of any
Republican candidate.
“Unless Moses comes down with two stone
tablets from Brokeback Mountain to tell us something
different, we need to keep that understanding of
marriage,” Huckabee said to the gathering in Iowa.
The former Arkansas governor is becoming the
object of scrutiny from queer activists. Opponents
recall a comment he made in 1992 stating that gays
lived “an aberrant, unnatural and sinful lifestyle"
and that AIDS patients should be isolated.
On his Web site, Huckabee is leaning on this
record that he got a constitutional amendment
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passed in Arkansas in 2002 defining marriage as
between one man and one woman.
While all Republican presidential candidates
oppose same-sex marriage, not all back a constitu
tional amendment banning it, and their views on
civil unions vary.
Fluckabee also says he opposes civil unions.
“When you create a validity and actually put
a sort of government approval on the behavior,
1 think that is a different set of rules than, say,
a person makes a lifestyle decision, and that’s
choice," Huckabee told The Boston Globe.
However, the candidate apologized for any hurt
his statement about AIDS might have caused to
patients or their families, and he said he’d be will
ing to meet with Ryan White’s family.
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civil unions, organizers said Dec. 12.
Rep. Gail Morrison, D-N.H., and Jen Major, for
mer board members of the New Hampshire Freedom
to Marry Coalition, said the event is scheduled for
just after midnight on the Statehouse steps.
State vital records officials are estimating 3,500
to 4,000 couples will get civil unions in 2008,
roughly double the 1,704 unions performed in
Vermont in 2000, the first year they were offered.
The Legislature passed a civil unions bill in
2007 allowing same-sex couples to enter civil
unions and have the same rights, responsibilities
and obligations as married couples. Gov. John
Lynch signed the bill in May. ©
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