Students Caught in the Crossfire

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"Tragically, public schools have become front lines in the culture war over homosexuality — and the biggest losers are the kids caught in the crossfire of incendiary rhetoric and bitter lawsuits.

"In school districts across the nation, escalating conflicts involving sexual orientation in the curriculum, student clubs, speech codes and other areas of school life are undermining the educational mission of our schools. News stories in the past two months alone have spotlighted bitter fights over these issues in Utah, Pennsylvania, Kansas, California, Idaho and Florida. Any notion of the public interest is often lost in the clash of worldviews across seemingly unbridgeable distances. "

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And that is why we must stop such efforts where we find them. As I wrote in my earlier post, "Why the Flag Must Be Removed," when a school pushes one agenda, it does so at the expense of those who hold the opposite position and who then rightly protest against the school. A neutral, non-controversial position is to simply, fairly, and still uncompromisingly treat every student the same: heterosexual or homosexual- choir geek or varsity quarterback- black or white or fluorescent green- all students ought to be treated equally by the school. It's fair. It's common sense.


It is becoming all too uncommon.