Posted on 04/12/2002 9:48:24 AM PDT by Saundra Duffy
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GAY RIGHTS ADVOCATES DEMAND SCHOOL TAKE ACTION AGAINST CHRISTIAN CLUB
A controversy, which has been brewing over the past few months at Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, between gay rights supporters and the Pioneers for Christ student club, came to a head this past Wednesday night during an emotion-filled meeting of the Ann Arbor School Board. At this meeting, gay rights activists demanded that the Board take action against the Christian club for not adopting a so-called “non-discrimination” policy as part of its mission statement.
Robert Muise, associate counsel with the Thomas More Law Center, addressed the Board during this meeting and pledged the support of the Center to protect the rights of this Christian club. Said Muise, “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.” Muise reminded the school board that “the U.S. Constitution and the Equal Access Act . . protect Pioneers for Christ from such blatant and discriminatory attacks from gay activists.”
Earlier this year, Pioneer High School officials demanded that Pioneers for Christ adopt its so-called “non- discrimination” policy as part of the club’s mission statement. This policy would force Pioneers for Christ to accept members who are not committed to its cause or adherents to the Christian faith. Moreover, this policy would prohibit its members from expressing and promoting their Christian view toward various issues, including homosexuality, thereby affecting the content of the members’ speech.
More recently, during the so-called “Diversity Week” held at Pioneer High School, 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.
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Shouldn't it be called "Mutant- Bohemian Neanderthal Week"?
This is the same as forcing General Custer to allow the complete Sioux tribe to join the 7th Cavalry.
SCOUTS OUT!
This is a classic example of the NEW TOLERANCE. Real tolerance requires disagreement (by definition). You can't tolerate something you do not disagree with. However, the new tolerance "demands acceptance." This is not tolerance at all but coercion, as they are saying that "tolerance will apply to everyone except those who disagree with our point of view." Homosexuality is a moral issue, it is not a protected consitutitional right (read the 15th amendment), and no one can force their morals on someone else! Morality begins in the heart!
This is a twisted country people! Truth is dying! All you Christians out there need to speak up about this new tolerance and expose THEIR (gay activists) INTOLERANCE. Spit it back in their faces and make them explain their illogical and contradictory positions. They cannot win a debate on this - truth and logic are on our side.
True. God help us.
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