Dobson, ACLU Bond Over Bong Hits

According to the Pew Research Center:

"A recent Supreme Court case involving the free speech rights of students is producing some very unusual alliances. Christian conservative groups, such as the American Center for Law and Justice, the Christian Legal Society and the Alliance Defense Fund, are defending a student named Joseph Frederick who was punished by his high school principal for holding up a sign that read "Bong Hits 4 Jesus."

Sure, it's not often that groups like Focus on the Family land on the same side of a controversial issue as groups like the ACLU, but take a look at Focus' explanation of its position:

"Bruce Hausknecht, judicial analyst for Focus on the Family Action, said it’s important schools strike a proper balance between the students’ rights and school officials’ interests in a safe learning environment.

'While Christians generally support the right of schools to maintain discipline, there has been a disturbing trend in recent years of schools prohibiting only Christian speech while allowing other speech antithetical to Christian belief,' he said.

For example, in the case of Harper v. Poway Unified School District, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a school’s right to ban a student from wearing a T-shirt with a biblical reference to homosexuality. The school allowed a pro-homosexual message by other students."

So, if Focus leader James Dobson wants students to be able to bash gays in the name of Jesus, he has to suck it up and defend students who say Jesus was a pothead, or something like that. Hey, you know, maybe whoever wrote in the Bible that homosexuality was wrong was, like, high or something?