The Palmer High School yearbook adviser lifted a photograph of a lesbian couple from the yearbook layout on the grounds that the photo was “morally offensive” according to the student editor.
Colorado state law gives students wide editorial discretion, but the district rationalized the censorship on the grounds that public displays of affection were against school policy and that the adviser was responsible for seeing that the publication furthered the school’s education mission. -db
From the Student Press Law Center, March 12, 2012, by Emily Summars.