I did **not** say that government and freedom could not coexist. I said that government **schools**, freedom of conscience, and the First Amendment can not coexist. Big difference!
Government schools have a choice:
1) They can allow First Amendment freedoms and freedom of conscience. The result of course is chaotic, unsafe, and absolutely ineffectual schools in which education is impossible.
or...
2) They can violate First Amendment Rights, and have safe and orderly schools.
In both cases a religiously neutral education is impossible. In the case of this particular article. The government school can not simultaneously support and not support the gay agenda. The government school must choose. In either case the government will be establishing, upholding, and supporting the religious worldview of some while, trashing that of the other.
There is a solution: Privatize all K-12 education.
I respectfully disagree anyway.
When public schools cave into politically correct interpretations of our basic freedoms, then you've got problems. But if public schools respect the Constitution, its history and people's 14th a protections, then I don't have a problem with "government" schools.