The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-22-06 03:53 PM
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School Cancels Diversity Day Over 'Ex-Gay' Demands
(Viroqua, Wisconsin) For the second time Viroqua High School has cancelled Diversity Day after conservative Christians balked at the inclusion of gay speakers.
The day, held every two years for juniors and seniors, was to have been held on Thursday as a opportunity to promote diversity in the community.
Speakers were to have included representatives of the African American, Latino, Jewish, Muslim, native American and gay communities.
But, Liberty Counsel, a Florida-based public interest law firm that regularly fights LGBT civil rights issues notified the school that it represented Pastor Don Greven of Bad Axe Lutheran Church and Charles Lind, grandfather of a Viroqua High senior who were concerned that representatives of the so-called ex-gay movement or other Christians opposed to homosexuality were not invited to speak.
Liberty Counsel, in a fax to the school, obtained by the La Crosse Tribune, warned that if Diversity Day went on the school could face legal action.
http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/03/032106wiscSchool.htm
sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-22-06 03:54 PM
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1. More hate and bigotry from the Christians.
ronnykmarshall (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-22-06 03:56 PM
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3. They're not Christians.
There is nothing "Christian" about these pigs.
sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-22-06 04:05 PM
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7. When other Christians start speaking out in public and on the TEEVEE
I will believe your post.
Ecumenist (459 posts) Wed Mar-22-06 04:03 PM
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6. For the umpteenth time...
THESE ARE NOT CHRISTIANS!!! These are maniacs that cloak bigotry, hatred and evil in a cloak of twisted permutations of what Christianity is SUPPOSED to be.
gratuitous (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-22-06 03:55 PM
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2. Foaming-at-the-mouth lunatics must be represented, too! After all, you don't know how many high school graduates want to be come drooling, pants-s****ing idiots, and if you don't offer their point of view on Diversity Day, you're doing a disservice to all the students.
If it weren't for the money it would cost the school district, I'd dare these craven little worms to sue.
donco6 (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-22-06 03:56 PM
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4. So, let me get this straight (no pun intended)
You can't have gay speakers who would advocate "tolerance" (I hate that word) for gays, unless you have "ex-gay" speakers who would advocate . . . that it's ok to be intolerant of gays because they don't have to be gay?
I don't get it.
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Ahhh! Can't you just feel the love and tolerance?
I gotta hand it to you, you've got more of a stomach than I. I'm afraid after just a few minutes over there I'd overheat.