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William769

(55,144 posts)
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 03:04 PM Jan 2012

Parents Want School to Teach Archaic "Gay Related Immune Deficiency"

A number of religious conservative parents — both Christian and Jewish — in the infamous Anoka-Hennepin School District north of Minneapolis, have demanded that school officials purge mention of homosexuality and add instructional information about so-called ex-gay and ex-trans therapies and "GRID" (Gay Related Immune Deficiency, an archaic term that was given to AIDS but hasn't been used by the medical establishment since 1984).

According to Andy Birkey, at the Twin Cities Daily Planet, the school's “neutrality policy” (which is basically a "don't ask, don't tell" policy for the area's public schools, in which LGBT issues are not to be discussed) is under attack by students who say it creates a hostile learning environment. But the Parents Action League, who released a resolution in support of anti-LGBT policies last week, want the policy to remain in place. In addition they called for the addition of anti-gay information, such as the "success" of "ex-homosexual therapy."

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2012/01/16/Parents_Want_School_to_Teach_Archaic_Gay_Related_Immune_Deficiency/

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Parents Want School to Teach Archaic "Gay Related Immune Deficiency" (Original Post) William769 Jan 2012 OP
Reason number one we need ENDA Fearless Jan 2012 #1

Fearless

(18,421 posts)
1. Reason number one we need ENDA
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 05:13 PM
Jan 2012

And the full repeal of DOMA. Students shouldn't be taught lies to prop up dying ideology.

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