Posted on 03/22/2006 12:28:00 PM PST by dukeman
Viroqua, WI - Viroqua High School officials chose to cancel tomorrow's Diversity Day activities after Liberty Counsel presented legal precedent requiring inclusion of the viewpoints of Christians and former homosexuals.
The school scheduled sessions for the students that presented the viewpoints of Hmong, Jews, Muslims, Native Americans, African-Americans, homosexuals, Latinos, Buddhists, the physically disadvantaged, and the economically disadvantaged, but not Christians or former homosexuals. Diversity Day would have been held tomorrow, March 23, 2006.
After a school official stated that the viewpoints of Christians and former homosexuals would be excluded, a resident contacted Liberty Counsel on behalf of many other concerned Viroqua residents.
On March 9, Liberty Counsel sent a letter to the District Administrator, explaining that the censorship of the viewpoints of Christians and former homosexuals violated the Establishment Clause and the Fourteenth Amendment equal protection guarantee. Liberty Counsel sent another letter on March 14 to the District Administrator and Board of Education. Two days later, the District Administrator confirmed in a telephone call that Diversity Day had been cancelled.
In 2004, the Board also cancelled Diversity Day in response to a citizen petition, but then reinstated it after spring elections changed the members on the Board. Unlike 2004, however, this time school officials were confronted with precedent from a federal district court in Michigan that ruled unconstitutional a similar exclusion from a Diversity Day panel.
Mathew D. Staver, president and general counsel of Liberty Counsel, stated: "We are pleased that the District cancelled Diversity Day instead of censoring the viewpoints of Christians and former homosexuals. One of the Diversity Day organizers labeled the former homosexual's viewpoint as 'non-positive.' This is yet another attempt to indoctrinate our youth with the harmful message that homosexuals cannot change. While touting the message of tolerance, homosexual activists refuse to be tolerant of opposing viewpoints. Our youth deserve to know the truth about homosexuality - that people can choose to overcome same-sex attractions and that acting on those attractions results in devastating physical, mental, and spiritual consequences."
Nothing is more rigorously uniform than a liberal's idea of diversity.
Where do all these liberals hide during the day?
Next time I go to Wisconsin, I'm going to be stocked up on garlic, crucifixes and wooden stakes if necessary, 'cause I think the liberals come out at night to rally all their dead voters.
In Public Indoctrination Centers Schools, learning about American history is considered too much diversity, as well.
Their form of diversity only is skin-deep. They want everyone to look different but think exactly alike.
LOL - true and funny.
When we said "diversity" - we didn't mean for you!
Now shouldn't you be paying your taxes instead of bitching about the way we run things?
Doesn't diversity mean ALL points of view... even those that certain folks would consider "intolerant" ?
Nope.
Tolerance is the vehicle by which activists use the judicial system to bring about change as a prelude to the new intolerance.
This kind of stuff really makes me happy that Roberts and Alito just joined the Supreme Court.
So much for diversity.
Diversity means an endless parade of like-minded liberals.
"Where do all these liberals hide during the day?"
In schools, apparently.
I'd also check in other government buildings.
The only solution is to put those big plastic tarps over the building while they are inside and fumigate.
The goal is "divide and conquer".
When we said "diversity" - we didn't mean for you!
Now shouldn't you be paying your taxes instead of bitching about the way we run things?
Did you once serve on a school board, water board or city council - that looks like a real practiced comment 8-)
Thanks gfor the post. I did not see in my Wisconsin local liberal rag
"We're all individuals!"
..."I'm not!"
We should shove this Diversity Perversity down the throats of the lib hypocrites. Show them to be the perverted hypocrites that they really are! They'll run at the first sign of true diversity.........as they showed themselves by cancelling the thing...........
Damn them heterosexual Christians... Always getting in the way of our attempt to indoctrinate
recruit the youth.
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