Yesterday, a Federal Judge ruled that the cute little pink Breast Cancer Awareness Bracelets that say 'I (heart) Boobies' is neither lewd or vulgar, and students can not be banned from wearing them on that basis. The school in question also failed to demonstrate that the bracelets represented a sufficient distraction to other students to earn them banning. The judge pointed out the school didn't help their own case by using the word 'boobie' while announcing the ban over the intercom. If it is too bad a word to wear on a bracelet, they should have come up with an alternate for their announcement.
Well, it should be pretty obvious to anyone that I, as both a lover of freedom and a man who appreciates the risk that breast cancer represents not to just to the boobies of women I love, but to their very lives, I am okay with this ruling. 100% behind it in fact. Now...if the young ladies in question were causing a distraction in class by waving their arms around, drawing undue attention to themselves...then they should have faced the normal discipline that anyone else doing that at school would have gotten. But, banning the bracelets seems like a bad overreaction that has now been corrected.
The facts in this article that most caught my eye had to do with some of the dates involved. Initially, the judge heard testimony from the girls and the school district back in December, and the article is careful to point out that the ruling this week is a preliminary one, resulting in an injunction, while the case waits to go to a full trial.
That's kind of crazy. It took this judge 40 pages and almost 4 months to deliver a PRELIMINARY judgement? In this case!?!?!?!?!??!?!
I'm glad she arrived at what I think is the correct decision...but that timeline/effort level seem to be a bit excessive.
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