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School Cancels Diversity Day Rather than Include Viewpoint of Christians and Former Homosexuals
Liberty Counsel e-mail update | 3/22/06

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."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: ac; campuscommies; campusradicals; christophobia; diversity; diversityday; heterophobia; homosexualagenda; indoctrination; jesushaters; libertycounsel; misandry; misogamists; misogamy; misogeny; persecution; preducators
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To: dukeman

How does one get on the mailing list for the Liberty Council?


81 posted on 03/23/2006 5:34:29 AM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace

Pretty much explains why my FIL's church school is such a hit. FIL lives near Viroqua, and goes to a Lutheran church there.


82 posted on 03/23/2006 5:49:16 AM PST by knittnmom (...surrounded by reality)
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To: dukeman

Sorry... make that Liberty Counsel...


83 posted on 03/23/2006 5:54:40 AM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: 80 Square Miles

Were there to be an invisible "political hazmat" circle to be drawn around Madison.... that would be helpful, so all known liberals could stay within that boundary and not be "infecting" others with their liberal "disease".


84 posted on 03/23/2006 5:56:25 AM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: dukeman

"Yeah, now the kids may have to use the time for something old-fashioned like reading, American history, or learning their multiplication tables."

Nope, can't do that cause some kiddies won't do well on the tests and their poor little feelings would get hurt. Unless there are no tests and everyone just gets an 'A' for existing. /end of sarcasm for now...


85 posted on 03/24/2006 12:31:04 PM PST by GoodWithBarbarians JustForKaos (LIBS = Lewd Insane Babbling Scum)
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To: GoodWithBarbarians JustForKaos

Hey, I could have used some of those A's just for existing when I was in school!


86 posted on 03/24/2006 3:14:04 PM PST by dukeman
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To: dukeman
"Diversity is our strength!" - as long as it agrees with my viewpoint.

Typical liberal mind set.

87 posted on 03/24/2006 3:19:59 PM PST by nightdriver
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