Md. H.S. kiss prompts talk on tolerance

AP | 11/20/03 | WILEY HALL

[presidio9]

Haaser, a junior, said she chose to make the statement as part of an English class assignment, which required that she engage in a nonconformist act in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

And this is related to the study of the English language how?

[Indy Pendance]

"You hear derogatory comments in virtually every class," Haaser said. "It's not always spiteful — someone might say, 'Oh that's so gay,' where 'gay' means stupid or dumb. But those comments can be really hurtful."

It was only in recent time did the defination of gay change. So, it's changing again. My kids and all their friends us 'gay' to mean dumb or stupid all the time. What about those women who were named Gay? I'll bet they don't like that their name was corrupted, that's just hurtful.

Main Entry: ¹gay
Pronunciation: 'gA
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French gai
Date: 14th century
1 a : happily excited : MERRY b : keenly alive and exuberant : having or inducing high spirits
2 a : BRIGHT, LIVELY <gay sunny meadows> b : brilliant in color
3 : given to social pleasures; also : LICENTIOUS
4 a : HOMOSEXUAL b : of, relating to, or used by homosexuals <the gay rights movement> <a gay bar>
synonym see LIVELY
- gay adverb
- gay·ness noun

[CanisRex]

River Hill administrators said they pride themselves on the school's respect for diversity. Pfeifer said the school has a Gay-Straight Alliance club and a diversity committee of students, teachers and parents. The school recently celebrated National Coming Out Day.

Will it ever end?

[Nonstatist]

Expelling kids for saying.. " That's gay!" is the next step, waych and see.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Haaser, a junior, said she chose to make the statement as part of an English class assignment, which required that she engage in a nonconformist act in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

At the time of the assigment, the student could have simply stood up and said, "Bite me b!+ch, I'm not doing this stupid assignment."

That act, of course, would have completed the student's required assignment. She could have also avoided the unsanitary act of placing her germ-covered shoes on the surface of a table where other students were eating.

[Thebaddog]

Pfeifer said the school has a Gay-Straight Alliance club

Can you imagine the dweebs that are members of that club?

[Terry Mross]

Intolerance has increased as diversity programs have increased. Guess ramming it down the student's throats ain't gettin' nowhere. And I'm not sorry for the choice of words.

[Independentamerican]

JEEPERS. I live in Clarkesville and am very surprised by this bit of news. This is one of the most affluent cities in MD. Average household income is 110k a year and you cannot find a condominium for less than 180k. I heard about this incident last week and I believe they suspended the 2 girls for disturbing the peace or something like that. Sad to say that is my old high school and boy have things changed. Guess you have liberals everywhere.

[Puppage]

A Socialistic Utopia

Step One

Take God out of the classroom

Step Two

Remove all signs of Christmas

Step Three

Demand amoral actions/lifestyles as normal, everyday life.

Anyone care to add the remaining steps?

[steve-b]

Their principal said he respected what the heterosexual students were trying to do

The nasty cynical part of my brain identifies that as "get the undivided attention of every heterosexual male in the room".

[Slainte]

[FormerLib]

I've recently heard of Crossland High School, a public insitution near Camp Springs, Maryland, where it is very common to see homosexual teens making out in the hallways. This was brought to our attention by the mother of a child attending there who had to come by early to pick her up for a doctor's appointment.

Apparently, it is common knowledge that the principal and several of the teachers are openly homosexual but our friend held on to the liberal line that this wouldn't have any effect on the children. Now that she has been faced with proof that the teachers are promoting their deviant lifestyle choices to the kids and have created an environment that is openly friendly to those choices (and VERY hostile to any resistance to it), she has woken up to the truth and is pulling all of her children out of the God-forsaken public school system.

I wonder if it would be possible to publicize what is being done to the children of Crossland High so that this evil will be brought to an end?

[Kuksool]

***River Hill administrators said they pride themselves on the school's respect for diversity. Pfeifer said the school has a Gay-Straight Alliance club and a diversity committee of students, teachers and parents. The school recently celebrated National Coming Out Day.***

And this isn't enough for these liberal students?

[FormerLib]

Pfeifer said the school has a Gay-Straight Alliance club.

Flood the club with Evangelical Christian kids who are determined to save the others from homosexual sin!

[Kuksool]

Is Clarkesville in Montgomery County? A lot of loony leftist reside there.

[T.Smith]

River Hill administrators said they pride themselves on the school's respect for diversity. Pfeifer said the school has a Gay-Straight Alliance club and a diversity committee of students, teachers and parents. The school recently celebrated National Coming Out Day.

I don't care if gay people want to be gay. As long as no sex it taking place in front of me it's none of my business. I don't care for their political agenda and their pushing a lifestyle on the rest of us. Their insistence on putting their sexuality in our faces had led to stuff like this in the public schools.

If a school wishes to allow African/Asian/Indian/Anglo-American celebrations in the name of diversity, so be it. But, how in the hell does a public school justify celebrating a sexual act as part of diversity? How can it have escaped them that by pushing gay acceptance like this they are legitimizing, even encouraging, ALL forms of sexuality. They are telling adolescents to go out and have whatever sex you want, because it's all good. STD's and teen pregnancy be damned! It just blows my mind.

[Psalm 73]

"Stephanie Haaser leaped onto a cafeteria table, shouted.....and kissed classmate Katherine Pecore.

Her parent's must be so proud......

[Modernman]

Can you imagine the dweebs that are members of that club?

Guys trying to meet bisexual chicks, maybe?

[Modernman]

Intolerance has increased as diversity programs have increased.

The only rule a school needs is this: All students will act in a civilized, polite manner to one another, the teachers and to the staff.