'School officials ... religious message that they wanted to convey ? that homosexual behavior is not immoral or sinful.'
Well at least they are beginning to find a moral authority; themselves. Like many liberals, they've got both feet firmly planted in mid air.
Well ... the "diversity proponents" might not think so.
Judge: 'Gay'-diversity week violated rights of Christian
Rules in favor of student whose religious views against homosexuality excluded from program
The case involved a federal lawsuit filed by the Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm, on behalf of student Betsy Hansen, whose religious views against homosexuality were censored and excluded from the program held at Ann Arbor's Pioneer High School.
During the program, Pioneer High School officials prevented Hansen from expressing her Roman Catholic view on homosexuality at the "Homosexuality and Religion" panel, and they censored a speech she was asked to give on the topic, ''What Diversity Means to Me.''
School officials claimed Betsy's religious view toward homosexuality was a ''negative'' message and would ''water-down'' the ''positive'' religious message that they wanted to convey ? that homosexual behavior is not immoral or sinful.
I guess negative opinions only promote diversity when they are expressed by liberals. Where's the ACLU demanding Hansen's free speech rights here? {rhetorical question}
Anyway, I applaud the judge's ruling:
"This case presents the ironic, and unfortunate, paradox of a public high school celebrating 'diversity' by refusing to permit the presentation to students of an 'unwelcomed' viewpoint on the topic of homosexuality and religion, while actively promoting the competing view. This practice of 'one-way diversity,' unsettling in itself, was rendered still more troubling ? both constitutionally and ethically ? by the fact that the approved viewpoint was, in one manifestation, presented to students as religious doctrine by six clerics (some in full garb) quoting from religious scripture. In its other manifestation, it resulted in the censorship by school administrators of a student's speech about "what diversity means to me," removing that portion of the speech in which the student described the unapproved viewpoint.''
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