Full Version: T-shirts and Free Speech?
1. Is a t-shirt message free speech that should be protected by the first amendment?
Yes. Symbolic speach is protected by the first Amendment as defined in Texas v. Johnson.
2. Shouldn't the house of representatives, a place of high status and one of our basic institutional venues, have a dress code?? I can't golf at many golf courses if I wear a "t-shirt" and people can be turned away from restaurants, clubs if they are not dressed properly. Isn't it reasonable to prevent people from entering places like the White House, Senate or House Chambers, or other places of honor if they are dressed like slobs? I know this would cause many in the media great consternation but it seems like a good idea to me. Should a dress code for these places be enforced?
Places have dress codes because they are privately owned (for the most part). If something is privately owned, the owner can make and enforce rules as he choses.
Yes. Symbolic speach is protected by the first Amendment as defined in Texas v. Johnson.
2. Shouldn't the house of representatives, a place of high status and one of our basic institutional venues, have a dress code?? I can't golf at many golf courses if I wear a "t-shirt" and people can be turned away from restaurants, clubs if they are not dressed properly. Isn't it reasonable to prevent people from entering places like the White House, Senate or House Chambers, or other places of honor if they are dressed like slobs? I know this would cause many in the media great consternation but it seems like a good idea to me. Should a dress code for these places be enforced?
Places have dress codes because they are privately owned (for the most part). If something is privately owned, the owner can make and enforce rules as he choses.
QUOTE(TruthMarch @ Feb 6 2006, 03:46 PM)
I may have missed it but does anyone care to remember that, as far as I know anyways, there is no 'official' formal dress code for Sheehan to have broken. Correct me if I'm wrong. I'd hate to think that this issue went off on a hypothetical tangent no short of being a red herring.
dress codes...I believe in...What Ms. Sheehan did was simply to create a media craze...which she did...and everyone is following.
I'm slightly annoyed by this. Believe in her cause or not...and I don't mean to sound callous...but she didn't get involved in the war till her son got killed. A thousand sons died before him.
I've heard of days when, though distrought, parents were proud to have their children fight for their country...even die.
I tried for years to join a service and fight for my country. In my early 20's, it was all I wanted, yet I was born with glaucoma. I'm legally blind in my left eye.
If she were my Mom, I'd be dissapointed.
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