FORT WAYNE, IN - Last month, a group of pro-life advocates brought pro-life signs to the public walkway outside South Side High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana. They talked to students after school dismissed for the day…and nothing happened.
Quite a difference from the tirade last fall when South Side High School Principal Carlton Mable screamed at the group on public right-of-way to "get off my property," grabbing pro-life signs and hurling them into the street.
Attorneys at the Thomas More Society and Mark Harrington, National Director of Created Equal, are claiming last week's non-event at South Side High as a legal and moral victory.
Attorney Thomas Dixon, Thomas More Society Special Counsel, wrote a letter to the City of Fort Wayne and the Fort Wayne Community School Corporation demanding that they respect the constitutional rights of Created Equal’s pro-life advocates. In response, lawyers for both the City and the School Corporation indicated that they will respect the rights of the pro-life advocates and that the police department told Mable his actions will not be tolerated again.
Harrington was happy to report that the participants in a pro-life witness outside the school on April 21, 2017, told Created Equal that they received no challenge to their presence. “We set up in the same place we did last time about 5 minutes before school got out,” one participant said. “When school let out we talked about the horror of abortion to students as they came out. We didn't see any school administrators during the outreach. Thanks to the Thomas More Society’s legal intervention, we were able to share our message without being harassed.”
Created Equal posted this video of the November 2016 incident:
