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School District Picks The Wrong Dad To Silence Over Pride Flags

School lawyers served Pruitt with a nuclear "no-trespass" order, preventing him from attending his child's extracurricular events.

Hank Berrien
School District Picks The Wrong Dad To Silence Over Pride Flags
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In a huge win for parental rights and free speech, a federal judge in Michigan slapped down school district bureaucrats, granting a preliminary injunction to a fed-up father who was hit with a “no-trespass” order after speaking out against Pride flags inside his son’s middle school.

U.S. District Judge Robert J. White ruled last week that the Grosse Pointe Public School System likely engaged in unconstitutional First Amendment retaliation against Gary Shane Pruitt. The court ordered the district to immediately stop enforcing the ban, take down a mugshot-style photo of Pruitt displayed in the school office, and cease any further retaliatory acts.

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