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muhly22222 -> RE: Foot in Mouth, Sergio Garcia-Style (5/22/2013 6:24:43 PM)
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In a related development, the DOJ has issued a letter to the University of Montana directing its administrators to adopt a speech code that recognizes sexual harrassment as any unwelcome behavior, even if an “objectively reasonable person of the same gender in the same situation” would not deem the behavior offensive.
University speech codes are a whole different ballgame. Given the due process (or rather the lack thereof) typically afforded college students facing disciplinary measures, there are serious First Amendment concerns about those codes, and the DOJ's directive would definitely run into issues, if any student who is punished under it is smart enough to go get a lawyer.
Of course, that's a different matter than the public relations nightmare that is Sergio Garcia's comment. Nobody (to my knowledge) has seriously advocated any kind of criminal or disciplinary action (though the PGA Tour would probably be within its rights to suspend him), but he has to apologize, and he's going to have to live with that comment over his head for some time.
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