VHS Diversity Day cancelled again

[kweerwolf]

The Diversity Day event set at Viroqua High School for March 23 has been cancelled.

The Vernon County Broadcaster was informed of this via a letter to the editor on Friday that stated: "The Diversity Day program, set for Thursday March 23 at Viroqua High School, has been canceled due to complications arising from legal considerations. The planning committee arrived at this decision to avoid compromising the original intent of the program."

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Diversity Day is an event held every two years at the school. It includes speakers representing a number of different racial, ethnic, religious and cultural backgrounds.

In 2004, approximately 400 people signed a petition asking that speakers discussing gay, lesbian and transgendered issues not be included in the event. The school board cancelled the event. After a change in the board's make-up following the spring election, it was reinstated. Diversity Day was eventually held with a homosexual couple participating as speakers. Approximately 60 students were reported as absent for the day, apparently held out of school by parents who disagreed with the event.

http://www.vernonbroadcaster.com/articles/2006/03/20/news/00lead.txt

"Oh Lordy! Can't have our children exposed to those filthy homos!" ... Pardon me while I :puke:

[cboy4]

1. You can't blame them. You know how we stay up in the middle of the night

day after day trying to figure out ways to force the "homosexual agenda" (in Pat Robertson's voice) on children! :sarcasm:

Brother. :puke:

[Solo_in_MD]

2. I'd like to know what legal issues

Have a hard time thinking of any other than groups who would be refused access.

[davidinalameda]

3. Muslims?

:shrug:

[RedXIII]

4. bump

bump

[TechBear_Seattle]

5. Would it have been cancelled if the KKK had been complaining?

Is it possible to have a serious presentation about diversity regarding sexual orientation, if those opposed to some sexual orientations -- Exodus International, for example -- are excluded?

Is it possible to have a serious presentation about diversity regarding race, if those opposed to some races -- the KKK, for example -- are excluded?

Is it possible to have a serious presentation about diversity regarding religion, if those opposed to some religions -- Nazis, for example -- are excluded?