The First Amendment is a very important right. Heck, just look at this blog. One thing, and I am not a legal scholar, eventhough the First Amendment guarantees free speech, it is my understanding it does not require any entity to provide the soapbox for that speech.
That is why I find this article in the Shawnee Dispatch to be very interesting:
http://www.shawneedispatch.com/news/2009/apr/01/connections-course-stirs-campaign-pot/
Apparently Kevin Straub went to a school with a bunch of his T-Shirts about saving the Museum Class. But, the T-Shirts also had his campaign web site URL on them. Now, is it right to hand these out to children, on schoool property? Knowing kids will take them because they are free?
Is this situational awareness?
If you'd like to see what the shirt looks like go to his campaign web site:
http://www.kevinstraub.com/tshirts.html
Then click on the "T-Shirt" link
Not sure if even the US Supreme Court could come up with a majority opinion on this one.
I have mine though. Would have preferred to see him go to a strip mall or a busy intersection and hand them out to voting adults.
Read the article, visit his site, look at the shirts, and decide for yourselves.
