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TIL A 12 year old boy won the right to wear a t-shirt saying “Homosexuality is a sin, Islam is a lie, Abortion is murder. Some issues are just black and white” to his school. The school then told him not to wear the t-shirt, leading to his parents suing the school. The parents won.

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