'Diversity Day' canceled over 'gay' speakers Homosexual couple didn't want Christians represented

WND ^ | 3-22-06

[Right Wing Assault]

Can't let the truth sneak out to those kids, now, can we?

[i_dont_chat]

"The committee then decided it would be best to cancel the whole program."

Good plan!

[Michael.SF.]

the biannual event

So even the event swings both ways.

[stainlessbanner]

"Non-positive groups were not what we were going for," said committee member Ellen Byers

Christianity didn't fit the agenda because the objective was to corrupt youthful minds.

[Indy Pendance]

It's only 'diverse' if you agree with the liberal agenda.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

I saw no representation in the list for Whirling Dirtbags.

[CzarNicky]

Attleson said the homosexual couple scheduled to speak refused to be on the program alongside an "ex-gay" viewpoint, saying they would be uncomfortable.

Apparently this couple of queers do not realize that, "...they're going to come into contact with people of different backgrounds."

[Indy Pendance]

I didn't see wiccans either. :)

[Firefigher NC]

The best way to combat this idiocy is to require events such as this to represent so many viewpoints including those they don't like (Christian, conservative) that it's impossible to organize such an event, or at least not without bogging it down with controversy over who gets to speak. It's too bad that we have to do this on the left's terms, but there are still chinks in their legal armor to exploit.

[Michael.SF.]

Gregg Attleson... told the LaCrosse paper the intent is to introduce students to minorities and people with alternative lifestyles.

Well, would not an ex-gay, now Christian, be an alternative to an alternative life style? What could be more alternative then that?

[don'tbedenied]

"It's ironic, because we're trying to be tolerant and at the same time we might be accused of being intolerant, said Byers, an English teacher.

Amazing lack of brains. Somehow they don't understand that some views are intolerant of others. Kum ba ya.

[Ninian Dryhope]

"...dispel some of the stereotypes."

Who knows, some of the speakers might very well reinforce stereotypes, since there is usually a rational basis for stereotypes.

[a_different_conservative]

'"It's ironic, because we're trying to be tolerant and at the same time we might be accused of being intolerant, said Byers, an English teacher.'

Ironic isn't the first word that pops into my mind.

[biggerten]

I suppose you think you're funny, smart aleck.

I guess that's O.K., though, 'cuz that WAS funny.

[Ninian Dryhope]

"I saw no representation in the list for Whirling Dirtbags."

Quite true and very shocking when one considers what an important subgroup Muslims are in this country.

[Mad Dawg]

Attleson said the homosexual couple scheduled to speak refused to be on the program alongside an "ex-gay" viewpoint, saying they would be uncomfortable.

See, they hadn't taken the Tom Daschle School of Social Discourse classes. "Uncomfortable" isn't as good a reason for doing something cowardly and stupid as "Deeply troubled" or "Concerned" is. You gotta get this stuff right!

Seriously, what a bunch of candy-butts! I didn't want to do it because I was "uncomfortable"? Yeah, Nathan Hale didn't want to hang, nor Paul Revere to ride, nor anybody to do anything worthwhile because it made them "uncomfortable". Sheesh!

[jdm]

'Diversity Day' canceled over 'gay' speakers Homosexual couple didn't want Christians represented"

When interviewed the gays insisted they weren't against Christians, but rather they just love irony.

[Tabi Katz]

Seems no one's more intolerant than those professing tolerance.

[CheyennePress]

Or Pyromaniac Arsonists for that matter! What? So my kicks get me thrown in jail for a few years. I'm diverse, too!