{"id":8488,"date":"2013-05-03T00:01:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T00:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=8488"},"modified":"2013-05-03T00:01:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T00:01:56","slug":"about-that-first-amendment-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/about-that-first-amendment-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"About That First Amendment Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Zubik\"<\/a>CBS Pittsburgh:<\/a><\/p>\n

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) \u2013 Students at Carnegie Mellon say it\u2019s freedom of expression, but the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh calls it inappropriate and disrespectful. At an annual art school parade, a female student dressed up as the pope, and was naked from the waist down while she passed out condoms. Even more, witnesses say the woman had shaved her pubic hair in the shape of a cross\u2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we all know that when we\u2019re growing up we do stupid things but to cross over the line in this instance shouldn\u2019t happen with anybody,\u201d Bishop David Zubik said.<\/p>\n

Bishop Zubik says the incident must be addressed. \u201cWhat I do want to have happen is for this person to learn an important lesson,\u201d Zubik said. The University encourages individual thought and artistic expression but the Diocese believes this student not only crossed the line, but trampled all over it.<\/p>\n

They are demanding some action\u2026..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Interesting. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know whether such a childish display is of a nature to warrant First Amendment protection, but it is somewhat tactless of a Bishop who has recently been doing plenty of complaining <\/a>about what he sees as a threat to his First Amendment rights, to be quite so insistent that this student be punished for exercising what might be hers. <\/p>\n

The decision over what (if anything) should be done about this incident is for the university and\u2014if it came to it\u2014the courts. The bishop was well within his rights to criticize what this lady did\u2014and I don\u2019t blame him for doing just that\u2014but when he calls for disciplinary action he\u2014how shall I put it\u2014not only crossed a line, but trampled all over it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CBS Pittsburgh: PITTSBURGH (KDKA) \u2013 Students at Carnegie Mellon say it\u2019s freedom of expression, but the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh calls it inappropriate and disrespectful. At an annual art school parade, a female student dressed up as the pope, and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[51,79,1004,760,909],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8492,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8488\/revisions\/8492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}