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Their irrational biases behind an extreme religious belief. david fowler is the president of the family action council of tennessee, michelle bliss is a board member of the tennessee equality project. thank you both for coming on the program. david, i d like to start with you. your response to the tennessee equality project and other gay rights groups who say that this would give students a license to bully. well, first, let me make it clear that, that s just not true. bullying is wrong, period. any student and all students deserve to be protected from bullying. this bill actually puts into the statute the parameters of the first amendment rights that students have according to our courts, from the supreme court s case in tinker all the way down to the 7th circuit case from last march, the zelnick case from the 7th circuit. so i don t know why there s such a controversy that putting what ....
What gets forgotten in this bill is that it mirrors the exactly the three things that the courts have said constitute bullying, one of which is creating a hostile educational environment. and that s been completely forgotten. so therefore, words even cloaked in political or religious terminology certainly can constitute bullying and can create a hostile educational environment and the schools should step in this that case to say, no. this is about political discourse, civil, normal, political discourse that the courts have said even students have a right to engage in and in fact in an educational environment should be encouraged to engage in, that they aren t in an intellectual bubble. and also, you know, all of that depend, too, upon the age range we are talking about, things that might be permitted in high school clearly would not be permitted in earlier grades. michelle, what kind of risk ....
Bill that talks about the hostile educational environment. the fact of the matter is the language of this bill mirrors what the courts have said and if there is a problem with the bill, then they have a problem with our courts and the first amendment, not with me. david fowler, michelle bliss, thank you both. you might say jon huntsman barely has a political pulse but he s picking up some important endorsements. one of them a big newspaper in massachusetts where mitt romney was governor. but will this make a difference in romney s rise in new hampshire? that s next in fair game. so, this is delicious okay. ....