Posted on 06/15/2008 1:30:36 PM PDT by tripod
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: For More Information, Contact:
June 13, 2008 Jennifer Harris, Communications Officer,
PIO#234-07/jlh 703.838.5078 or jennifer.harris@alexandriava.gov
Alexandria Student Recognized for Support of Human Rights
The Alexandria Human Rights Commission is pleased to announce that Debra Luecretia Mason, president of T.C. Williams High School Gay Straight Alliance (GSA), is the winner of the Commission’s seventh annual 2008 Student Human Rights Awards for her leadership role and promotion of equality for all regardless of sexuality. The Commission established the Human Rights Awards seven years ago to recognize students who have contributed significantly toward improving basic human rights and fairness for all in the City. On Tuesday, June 10, Mayor William D. Euille, members of the Alexandria City Council, and the Human Rights Commission recognized the students’ achievements publicly and the winner received a commemorative plaque and a cash award funded by the William D. Euille Foundation.
In April and May, officers of the Human Rights Commission contacted key administrators at
T. C. Williams, Bishop Ireton, St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School, Alexandria Friends School, Episcopal and the Alexandria Campus of Northern Virginia Community College to invite high school juniors and seniors, and first-year community college students, to apply for the awards. Students were required to submit an essay and supportive nomination showcasing the student’s or student group’s contributions toward promoting equality, respect and understanding for all persons regardless of race, color, culture, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation or disability.
Luecretia has maintained the open and friendly environment of the GSA, “where everyone’s voice is heard and opinion matters.” She has taken the leadership opportunity “to help others… to give them the strength to stand strong and fight for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights and equality.” Through the organization, individuals find support, acceptance and value. Her A.P. Language and Composition teacher describes Luecretia as someone who “is consistently pondering, analyzing, and evaluating.” Fortunately for the students at T.C.Williams, this characteristic enabled her to accept the leadership role in the school organization that primarily promotes equality among the student body, uniting all sexualities and gender identities whether straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, (or) transgender.” Luecretia and GSA “teach people to not judge another’s character solely on the basis of their sexual orientation.” Luecretia’s lessons about tolerance and acceptance are valuable for all Alexandrians.
The Alexandria City Council created the Human Rights Commission in 1975 to advise the City Council on matters related to human rights affecting the City and to oversee the Office of Human Rights. The Office of Human Rights enforces the Alexandria Human Rights Ordinance, which prohibits discrimination based on age, race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, familial status, or disability. For more information, please contact Jean Niebauer, Office on Human Rights, at 703.838.6390, or Jenny Wade, Human Rights Commission, at 703.549.3352.
The City of Alexandria is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. To request a reasonable accommodation or an alternative format, please contact Mike Hatfield at 703.519.3357, Virginia Relay 711, or email at mike.hatfield@alexandriava.gov.
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Somebody's gotta' grow up to be the waiters I suppose.
It's over.
Or the bus boys - oops I meant the bus glbts somethings
Alexandria is pretty liberal - shocked? No.
Not over until the FAT LADY SINGS my friend!
Liberal? That is the understatement of the century!
Satan is the author of confusion, and here we are congratulating the advocacy of deadly homosexual conduct as forwarding human rights. Is it any wonder that sexual abuse of minors is rampant when our society sows the seeds of confusion.
Of course its not. When the world is turned inside out and upside down anything goes. We are in a free fall which has become a “free for all.”!!!!
I hear her tuning up.
Let her bellow that all the world can hear!
It is unbelievable! How quickly we are falling…
The rate of acceleration for this fall is inversely proportional to the increase in general stupidity!
The satanic puppet masters have engineered our universities and K-12 such that now
we don’t just sow confusion
we sow out-right satanism and call it diversity.
And many idiots think there’s no payday for such suicidal cultural mayhem.
They will discover painfully late, that THAT’s NOT the case.
God is not mocked, he that sows to the flesh shall reap corruption; he that sows to the spirit shall reap eternal life.
Ahmen!
And how inexorably, rapidly
. . . we are gaining momentum in the free fall.
Thanks for the affirmation.
Scottie to Captain Kirk - “We are approaching warp speed!”
We sill soon see real life scenes like those in “On the Beach” when everyone just said to hell with it because the world was about the end!
Scottie to Captain Kirk - “We are approaching warp speed!”
INDEED
VERY
WARPPED SPEED.
Thankfully, God has promised that the days of such evil shall be shortened . . . else no flesh would be saved.
Nevertheless, a world population reduction of 1/3-2/3rds is not peanuts.
One only needs to look to Sodom and Gomorrah.
The FOUR HORSEMEN
are not prancing, dancing stallion showhorses.
Scottie to Captain Kirk - “We are approaching warp speed!”
INDEED
VERY
WARPPED SPEED.
Thankfully, God has promised that the days of such evil shall be shortened . . . else no flesh would be saved.
Nevertheless, a world population reduction of 1/3-2/3rds is not peanuts.
2/3rds reduction is exactly in line with the Prophecy of Fatima!
Greedy B....
Awwwwww, they were just having fun in diversity . . . just ask the relativists . . . just a stray meteor lighting off some dormant vulcanism . . . totally coincidental . . . professor Dr Head-in-Dark-Place said so—so it must be right.
Besides, wait and someone will soon have a Sodom and Gomorrah theme park for “GAY DAZ” 365 days a year . . . I hear Iran has declined the honor.
/s
Sigh.
I think the 20’s with folks jumping out of sky scrapers in hopelessness
will turn out to look anemic.
Stuff will be occurring on sidewalks, in parks, on beaches . . . that used to be restricted to horror shows.
God have mercy.
What an object lesson to ALL CREATION . . .
the fruit of rebellion and disobedience to God yields . . .
uhhhhh . . . . doh . . .
DEATH.
Yup... ask Sulu; he’s getting married tomorrow.
What if the sexual orientation makes their butts so sore they can't work?
I hope he is getting married to a woman - or at least a female Klingon!
I won’t get into Fatima here.
But that’s a Scriptural understanding as far as I’m concerned.
Scripture is not linearly precise on it . . . First there’s one third lost of the world population to that time. I think then there’s another 1/3 to 2/3rds lost of what’s left.
I don’t have the verse refs handy.
I’m not terribly surprised that Fatima would concur.
It does concur!
The whole assumption here is that the “good” progressives work against “bad” bigots who oppose the gay rights movement. Good = gay rights movement. Bad = anything that opposes it. There is no attempt to analyze the conservative position other than a predictable mention of “bad” evangelical Christian views.
I’m sure that the students never hear thoughtful conservative views on the subject.
He came out “Gay” some time ago.
INDEED
I used to go to one restaurant where the waitress knew me so well I would never have to order. In fact if she saw me coming my drink would be on the table before I got there.
I stop going there when she left. I didn’t feel like training another one.
Maybe he can find a gender-neutral Vulcan
They are hard to “train” in Alexandria, VA!
The left has painted that as a “rights” issue, which is ISN’T.
He’d better have a vulcanized something-or-other
if he wants to beat the gay odds of living 20 less years on average.
They seem to feel like it’s their
‘nonexistent God-’ given right to drag the rest of society to hell with them . . .
sheesh.
Think of it kind of like an airport lounge. Pay as you go.
Been that way for as long as I can remember too.
There; it's fixed. The Human Rights Commission doesn't care about the other stuff.
Can you imagine an award in which a student was honored for fighting for people’s rights regardless of religion?
Can you imagine a student group in which people of all religions were participating in exercising their freedom of religion? Can you imagine a group where religion is discussed at all?
Years ago, homosexuality was a subject that would not be discussed openly. Whereas religion could be discussed openly. Now, homosexuality is celebrated and discussed openly, while religion is a subject that is taboo among the politically correct crowd. Amazing. Sad and amazing.
Hmmmm...maybe I can use this to help talk hubby into living a bit further out from DC? At the moment all he can see is the price of gas commuting to a train, and the pain in the butt of driving to a train, then riding in, then walking to the office. *sigh*
I am a bit worried about the walking part. Esp. in the July/Aug heat. But that’s a bridge we will worry about after we move, who knows, maybe his office is right off the train...I can wish!!! LOL
Fatima has been right so far, and it is scary right too!
Can anything be done or is it too late?
Have you a link for this? I am curious to read more.
The marketing of deviance to kids is the core of the agenda.
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