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Published on Friday, August 12, 2005 by the Long Island (NY) Newsday

Radio Host Quits Schools Diversity Panel Dispute on We Are Family Video
by Chris Kahn

As Conservative radio host Steve Kane said Thursday he has quit the Broward County schools' Diversity Committee after angering the gay community with comments about a children's video.

Kane, 66, worried that the We Are Family video would be a "foot in the door" for activists to promote a pro-gay agenda in the county's public schools. He said the movie, which shows Big Bird, SpongeBob SquarePants, and other characters dancing and singing, could be used to introduce gay relationships to other students.

When those comments were published this summer, members of the gay community and the Anti-Defamation League packed School Board meetings and called for his removal.

"They're kind of using me as a club to beat up on the School Board," Kane said Thursday in a telephone interview. "And I'm going to take that club out of their hands."

Kane said he sent his board sponsor, Marty Rubinstein, a letter of resignation Wednesday night. Rubinstein, who had condemned Kane's comments about the video, would not talk about the letter.

Stratton Pollitzer, a regional director for the civil rights group Equality Florida, applauded the resignation: "We've been very, very happy with the way the School Board has stood up and condemned the homophobia."

The Diversity Committee rejected the We Are Family video this year for various reasons, including a fear that it would teach students to be friendly to dangerous strangers.

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