Suburban DC Schools required to distribute 'ex-gay' literature

[LynneSin]

Schools required to distribute 'ex-gay' literature; Truth Wins Out slams move


by Michael Rogers


WASHINGTON -- Some suburban Washington, DC high schools are being forced to hand out anti-gay literature from a group that aims to "cure homosexuals," PageOneQ has learned.

The flyers, produced by Parents and Friend of Ex-Gays (P-FOX), will be the sole information distributed to students on February 1st. Wayne Besen (r.), president of Truth Wins Out an organization that dispels myths of the so-called 'ex-gay' movement, immediately condemned the move.

Besen called upon the Montgomery County, Maryland Board of Education to stop the flyer's distribution. "It is unacceptable that these schools are steering students to a website with strong ties to an organization that believes Africans were better off as slaves," Besen said in an interview with PageOneQ. He was referring to a controversy last year when an organization repeatedly referred to on the soon-to-be distributed literature as a credible source of information was roundly condemned for posting an apparent justification of slavery on its site

There is another way, or other ways, to look at the race issue in America," wrote Gerald Schoenewolf on the website of National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), an organization advocating that gays can be "cured" with therapy. "Africa at the time of slavery was still primarily a jungle…Life there was savage… and those brought to America, and other countries, were in many ways better off," he asserted.

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Montgomery County Public Schools spokesman Brian Edwards said that it is the school district's policy to distribute flyers from any non-profit or religious institution, regardless of the flyer's content. "The situation is brought to us by a Fourth Circuit of Appeals ruling declaring parts of the previous flyer policy unconstitutional. The Board of Education had little choice but to allow flyers to be distributed in the manner in which they decided," Edwards said.

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[annabanana]

1. I expect that the students will find appropriate things to do

with the flyers.

[wicket]

2. They probably make good toilet paper too

:evilgrin:

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. Does this mean that pro-tolerance/pro-gay rights groups can distribute fliers too?

I'd like to see what the board of education has to say about THAT. If so, I think that they should distribute similar fliers. I'm sure that the board of education will simply have no choice but to distribute them "in the manner in which they decided", right? Right? :sarcasm:

[marmar]

4. Un-fucking-believable.....

I'm sure Fred Phelps' group and the KKK consider themselves "religious" groups too. Let's have some more hate lit passed around, what the hell?:crazy: And I always thought of Montgomery County as relatively progressive. Jee-zus.