Evangelical Christian student’s speech as ‘disorderly conduct’
Georgia Gwinnett College repeatedly restricted how an evangelical Christian student could communicate with passers-by on the public campus, even stopping him from proselytizing in a designated free speech zone, according to a new lawsuit.
The school is imposing an “unchecked right” to discriminate against student viewpoints by potentially labeling any speech that “disturbs the peace and/or comfort of person(s)” as “disorderly conduct,” according to the lawsuit filed by the Alliance Defending Freedom.
The broad definition functionally stops students “from saying anything that prompts complaints from listeners” and imposes a “heckler’s veto that effectuates content and viewpoint discrimination,” it says....