Joe.My.God. LGBT News
Law & Crime reports:
The president of West Texas A&M University faces a federal lawsuit calling his cancellation of a student group’s drag show to benefit LGBTQ+ suicide prevention “textbook viewpoint discrimination” that violates the First Amendment.
Student group Spectrum WT, which scheduled a show titled “A Fool’s Drag Race” for March 31, seeks an injunction forcing the university to allow the event on campus.
In their 45-page federal lawsuit, the group notes that the university’s president Walter Wendler “confessed he is censoring” the show for personal reasons and “unabashedly admitted that doing so violates the Constitution.”
Read the full article. As I reported earlier this week, Wendler claims that drag shows are inherently “degrading to women” and he compared drag to wearing blackface.
‘Textbook viewpoint discrimination’: West Texas A&M president faces First Amendment lawsuit after canceling student drag show
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— Law & Crime (@lawcrimenews) March 24, 2023
BREAKING: FIRE just sued West Texas A&M University President Walter Wendler for violating college students’ First Amendment right to hold a charity drag show on campus. https://t.co/msuGKvrLbC pic.twitter.com/nlXu98QmXt
— FIRE (@TheFIREorg) March 24, 2023
2/ In a campus-wide statement, Wendler said he would ignore the law in order to prevent the event from happening, claiming that it is “not possible” for there to be a “harmless drag show.” The lawsuit seeks to stop Wendler’s unlawful attempt to censor students.
— FIRE (@TheFIREorg) March 24, 2023
3/ Wendler has a right to voice his views on drag shows. Indeed, FIRE fights for the rights of professors, presidents, and other university officials to exercise their own right to free speech.
— FIRE (@TheFIREorg) March 24, 2023
4/ But Wendler crossed the line by silencing a student performance just because he doesn’t like its message. That’s why FIRE is here to make sure President Wendler and the university respect students’ rights.
— FIRE (@TheFIREorg) March 24, 2023