Free Republic

The students stood on the stage of York Suburban High School Wednesday night and chatted with each other, giggling and smiling. They were preparing to rehearse "The Laramie Project," the play they will perform tonight and Saturday. The play deals with the 1998 murder of gay college student Matthew Shepherd near Laramie, Wyo. The school's drama club picked diversity as a theme this year, and chose three plays that fit the theme. This choice has drawn controversy after Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, announced its plan to picket the play's Saturday performance............ Members of the drama club expressed pride...

<p>A discussion about protests by an anti-homosexual church at the funerals of fallen American soldiers turned into an astounding shoutfest on national television this weekend, with Fox News host Julie Banderas calling a fire-and-brimstone Christian preacher "the devil" and apparently condemning her to hell.</p>

This is the first vanity I have posted. I need some help from some of you really clever thinkers there. We have an active Gay Straight Alliance Club which has succeeded in pressuring a high school math teacher to resign because of a private comment that teacher made at school regarding his views of homosexuality. I have made my views known in a column I write for our local paper that teachers ought not be gagged, especially in private conversations that either were accidentally overhead or deliberately set up by an activist (I'm not sure which happened). Anyway, the damage...