Yes, well, students are allowed only some freedoms of speech.
If the speech offends the left, it's bad and it's okay to ban it.
If the speech offends the right or offends Christians, that's fine.
"Big Pecker" written on a teeshirt is nearly guaranteed to offend a conservative and would never offend a liberal, so it's protected. However, "Jesus loves you" or "Your Che shirt sucks" will offend liberals on principle, and if the ACLU themselves don't act to sue the school that allows those sayings, it will at least refuse to take a case to defend a kid's right to put up pictures of six-month-old fetuses on the "student issues" bulletin board.
If you don't believe me, please post three examples of the ACLU taking such cases and disprove my assertion that they don't.
Jay Sekulow is a lawyer who runs an organization called the ACLJ and has a radio program during which he takes calls from families about their problems with government violating their rights unequally. Very often they will tell him "We called the ACLU about our kid getting expelled for taking a Bible to school but they refused to help us. They told us, 'We don't take Christian cases.' Can you help us?"
Sekulow had opposed the ACLU before the Supreme Court something like 55 times, or maybe it was 85 times--I haven't listened to his show in years and am telling you in advance that I don't remember the number--before he lost a decision.
On the other hand, I am aware of hundreds of "Protect this atheist student's/Muslim student's/foreign student's rights" that the ACLU has handled. Are they really interested in human rights, or are they only interested in certain rights?
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