Posted on 10/14/2002 2:48:11 PM PDT by That Subliminal Kid
NEWS RELEASE
School Retreats From Pro-Homosexual Policy After Student Club Threatens Lawsuit
(ANN ARBOR, MI) ¾ Threats of legal action ended a controversy that had been brewing over the past year at Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, between gay rights activists and the Pioneers for Christ student club. Gay activists had demanded that the School Board take action against the Christian club because the club refused to adopt the school’s “non-discrimination” policy as part of its mission statement. According to the Thomas More Law Center, which represented the Christian Club, the policy would have unconstitutionally prohibited members from expressing their Christian view against homosexuality. Under the threat of litigation, the Ann Arbor School Board voted last week to change its policy.
Robert Muise, associate counsel with the Thomas More Law Center, appearing at a school board meeting earlier in the year warned, “Pioneers for Christ is being singled out simply because its members do not support the agenda of gay rights activists. Presently at Pioneer High School there are faculty members and administrators who desire to promote their personal political agenda at the expense of students’ constitutional and federal statutory rights….the U.S. Constitution and the Equal Access Act . . . protect Pioneers for Christ from such blatant and discriminatory attacks.”
According to reports, attorneys for the School Board agreed that the policy was not legally defensible, so the Board changed it.
In a separate but related controversy, during the so-called “Diversity Week” held at Pioneer High School last March, students were not allowed to express their Christian view of homosexuality during a panel discussion that the school sponsored for the purpose of discussing religion and homosexuality. The Gay Straight Alliance student club, with the support of school officials, monopolized this discussion by presenting only the view of several adults who claimed to be clergy of denominations that support the homosexual lifestyle. School officials prevented any other view to be expressed during this event, which occurred during the school day. This has resulted in a federal lawsuit, which was filed this past July by the Thomas More Law Center on behalf of Betsy Hansen and her mother, challenging the school’s actions. This lawsuit is distinct from the non-discrimination policy controversy and, according to Center attorneys, will continue.
According to Attorney Muise, “We are pleased that the School Board recognized that its so-called ‘non-discrimination’ policy was constitutionally suspect and that it threatened the rights of Christian students and others. We believe that our lawsuit against the School Board over the Pioneer High School ‘Diversity Week’ events, which is separate but related to the non-discrimination policy issue, will cast further light on the way that gay rights activists are improperly influencing the public school system.”
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"Gay activists had demanded that the School Board take action against the Christian club because the club refused to adopt the school’s “non-discrimination” policy as part of its mission statement."
Adult queer activists have no damn business harassing public school children. Groups like GLSEN need to be thrown out of the public schools (you listening Kevin Jennings?!).
First AIDS Education, Then "Safe Schools," Then Gay Advocacy
Two excellent web sites that will help students when they are faced with homosexual indoctrination:
Choice 4 Truth (http://www.choice4truth.com/)
They have two sections - one for parents and one for students/teens. Here's the link for student section:
http://www.choice4truth.com/index-teens.html
There is some really good material under the "Take the Student Pledge" section that kids can use to respond with when they are faced with queer propaganda.
Truthatschool.org (http://www.truthatschool.org/)
This site also has sections for parents and students, but is primarily a web site for students (with lots of good information).
I believe that to effectively fight the homosexual activists in the schools, we need to involve students who will take a stand against them, as the Pioneers for Christ student club did. In order to refute the claims of the homosexual activists, these students will need information and we need to make sure they have it. Please pass this information on.
Assemblyman MOUNTJOY opposes promotion of homosexuality in public schools
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