Some MD High Schools Pass Out PFOX Fliers.
Some high schools in Montgomery County, MD, sent students home with fliers from PFOX. It’s part of PFOX’s ongoing effort to push their anti-gay agenda into the nation’s schools, and foist discredited, harmful, bigoted “reparative therapy” on children. (Peter Sprigg, who declared that gay people should be imprisoned, is a board member of PFOX.) PFOX is flat-out lying to these children, and the school system is allowing it.
Some Montgomery County high schools passed out fliers this week from an organization that contends gays can become heterosexual through therapy, and the schools say they cannot prevent the use of their distribution system by such groups.
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The schools are required to distribute literature that isn’t deemed hate speech from any registered nonprofit organization four times a year, the result of a 2006 lawsuit, said Dana Tofig, a spokesman for the Montgomery County Public Schools.
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“These fliers are probably counter to what is available in our health curriculum, but that curriculum focuses on respect, and we respect freedom of speech,” said Patricia O’Neill (Bethesda-Chevy Chase), president of the Montgomery County Board of Education.
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She admits that what PFOX is pushing contradicts the health curriculum. Then she mentions “respect”, but where is the respect for the LGBT students who are being told they are broken, flawed, deviant creatures who need to “change” in order to please others? Once again the health and safety of LGBT citizens takes a back seat to the perceived rights of others to abuse them.
But hey, if it’s only about free speech and presenting alternative ideas to kids then when can we send the kids home with fliers telling them they can become Ex-Christians?
Further reading:
The Truth About Ex-Gay “Therapy” Exposed, Again.
When The APA Denounces “Ex-Gay” Therapy What Are the RRRW Anti-Gays To Do? Lie, Of Course.
6 Responses to “Some MD High Schools Pass Out PFOX Fliers.”
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February 6th, 2010 at 8:31 pm
OK that pisses me off. That happened in my state. How can this fly? WTF?
I’m serious! WTF? These RRRW NUTS are spreading hate speech in the nicest possible way. Insidious!
February 6th, 2010 at 9:33 pm
So I wonder, if PFOX could send out pamphlets can’t PFLAG? I mean, what’s good for the goose and all..
February 6th, 2010 at 10:51 pm
That’s how they’ve managed to get away with it for so long, and continue to do so. They pretend they’re doing it out of love, and with the intention of “helping” LGBT people. If they’re questioned or criticized in any way they then pretend they’re the aggrieved party because they’re being denied their First Amendment rights, or their “religious beliefs” are being trampled. Insidious is the right word to describe what they are doing.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:54 pm
Sounds good to me, Tony. And for that matter, why can’t the Freedom From Religion Foundation or American Atheists send out fliers? Of course the phones would begin ringing off the hook with parents screeching about the “hate speech” but that would only show how hypocritical this mess all is.
February 7th, 2010 at 5:09 pm
The HRC has more than enough money to fund pro lgbt fliers. Why aren’t they?
February 7th, 2010 at 5:27 pm
HRC is too busy having cocktail parties and sucking up to President Obama to do things that actually help LGBT people.