Can't let the truth sneak out to those kids, now, can we?
"The committee then decided it would be best to cancel the whole program."
Good plan!
So even the event swings both ways.
Christianity didn't fit the agenda because the objective was to corrupt youthful minds.
Apparently this couple of queers do not realize that, "...they're going to come into contact with people of different backgrounds."
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.
Well, would not an ex-gay, now Christian, be an alternative to an alternative life style? What could be more alternative then that?
'"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.
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!
'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.
Seems no one's more intolerant than those professing tolerance.
I have to agree that cancelling the program was pretty ridiculous. I don't usually make a big deal of being gay (or even mention it to anyone not interested), but I have to say that if your objective is to promote diversity, it's silly to exclude someone just on the basis of their (current or former) sexual orientation. And any gay person who is "uncomfortable" being around an ex-gay needs to grow up and face the fact that not everyone who thinks they're gay is going to be happy with that fact and may, indeed, want to change.
"Non-positive groups were not what we were going for," said committee member Ellen Byers in response to the decision to cancel.
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"Non positive" -- only a lunatic liberal could come up with that Orwellian lingo.
This case presents the ironic, and unfortunate, paradox of a public high school celebrating “diversity” by refusing to permit the presentation to students of an “unwelcomed” viewpoint on the topic of homosexuality and religion, while actively promoting the competing view. This practice of “one-way diversity,” unsettling in itself, was rendered still more troubling -- both constitutionally and ethically -- by the fact that the approved viewpoint was, in one manifestation, presented to students as religious doctrine by six clerics (some in full garb) quoting from religious scripture. In its other manifestation, it resulted in the censorship by school administrators of a student’s speech about “what diversity means to me,” removing that portion of the speech in which the student described the unapproved viewpoint.
All of this, of course, raises the question, among others presented here, of what “diversity” means and whether a school may promote one view of “diversity” over another.
School Cancels Diversity Day Rather than Include Viewpoint of Christians and Former Homosexuals
Posted by dukeman
On 03/22/2006 2:28:00 PM CST · 67 replies · 1,680+ views
a high school in Wisconsin
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What about the First Amendment Rights of the parents and students NOT to assemble in any school that would propose this drivel?
Government schools trash the First Amendment Right to free assembly every day, in every school in America.
They are an abomination!
Attleson said the homosexual couple scheduled to speak refused to be on the program alongside an "ex-gay" viewpoint, saying they would be uncomfortable.....translation: "We might wet our fag panties."
Everyone is equal...but some are more equal than others.