Indiana School Board Censors Student Articles

The apparently conservative East Allen County Schools has a new policy for the student newspapers: the principal may censor a student publication if the material in that publication is "socially inappropriate to the maturity of students."

In this case, the editorial in question involved a plea for Heritage High School students to be tolerant toward gays and lesbians. I thought that most school districts start "tolerance" teaching toward gays and lesbians in kindergarten. Perhaps this is not the case in East Allen County Schools.

If censorship should not happen for Christian speech, it certainly should not happen for other First Amendment protected speech.