Dakota Ary, a 14-year-old honors student at a Fort Worth, Texas, high school was recently suspended for a day for mentioning to a classmate that he thought homosexuality was wrong, OneNewsNow.com reports. Ary said his comment was only directed at his friend, who was sitting behind him, but his teacher overheard, "started yelling," and sent him to the principal's office. Hiram Sasser of the Liberty Institute said Ary's First Amendment rights were violated and that such attempts of schools to regulate students' thoughts needed to be challenged or they would get worse. Ary's school agreed to revoke the suspension so he could play in a football game, but his mother is fighting for the suspension to be completely eliminated from his record. So far, the school has made no comment.
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