Missouri sporting goods store refuses to print Gay Straight Alliance T-Shirt

Missouri's Blue Springs South High School senior Bailee Webb, who is president of her school's GSA, wanted shirts emblazoned with the words, "Why is it that as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" The club liked it, the principal approved it, so she emailed an order for a dozen to Rod's Sporting Goods in Blue Springs.

The next day, after "praying" about it, Rod Lindemann, 48, the owner, refused to print the shirts. He felt the slogan would be condoning gay lifestyles. He told the Kansas City Star that he wouldn't sell out for a dollar. He also told the Star that he does a lot of business with ROTC students and thought the quote might "offend" them.

Lindemann made his decision, so Webb made hers, as expressed in an email to the store: “I respect your decision, even if I do not agree with it, and I’m sorry that the Blue Springs South GSA and many other clubs here at South cannot and no longer will be doing business with you.”

Bailee is a senior honor student with a grade point average of 4.19, ranked fifth in her class of more than 440, and has a pending application to Harvard. The only time she ever asked to wear makeup was for a Zombie makeover with gruesome scars. Also, she can't stand Justin Bieber.

Sounds very grounded to AKSARBENT.