It's been a while since we checked in with David Davis, the Floridian principal who last year told a lesbian student that homosexuality's morally wrong, prohibited her from wearing gay pride garb and then went on a "witch hunt" for gay students.

The ACLU and the student, Heather Gillman, have since successfully sued Davis. The educator found himself demoted, Ponce de Leon High School faculty must now take sensitivity training and the school must pay Gillman's $325,000 legal bills.

While one would think all this would teach the town a lesson, it has not

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Floridian principal David Davis had some explaining to do yesterday - and he didn't do it very well.

The improbably named educator took the stand in day one of a discrimination suit filed by 17-year old Heather Gillman, who accuses Davis and Ponce de Leon High School of violating her and others' civil rights for prohibiting gay pride garb.

The case began to unfold last year, after Gillman and her progressive peers began designing shirts with pro-gay slogans, like "I support equal marriage rights" and "I support gay rights."

Davis apparently did not approve, because he sent out a memo threatening suspension for students who made such fashion statements. And his reasoning gives some insight into this man's bad social education…

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