On Monday, a U.S. District Court Judge ordered Georgia Tech to revise its speech code, finding the portions of the code prohibiting speech designed to "injure, harm" or "malign" others on the basis of race, religious affiliation, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, etc. unconstitutional.
The policy, which applied to on-campus residents, was challenged by two conservative students who argued that the "politically correct" speech code violated the first amendment. One of the main sticking points for them is that the speech code did not seem to allow conservative student groups to challenge feminism or homosexual lifestyles.
That judge may have opened Pandora's box. Now Tech students will be able to call their hallmates fags when they refuse to drink vast amounts of alcohol. Oh, wait...
Update: This op-ed piece, written by the two students who filed the suit, ran in the AJC yesterday & provides a bit more context.
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