Tensions ease over gay posters Conflict resolved by faculty meetings

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/26/BAGHRGT0GD1.DTL

Two days after San Leandro High School teachers were ordered to hang posters in their rooms promoting tolerance toward gay students, many faculty and students said the move was long overdue.

"It shouldn't even be a debate. Kids need to feel comfortable in class, and the adults need to make sure that happens," said senior Je'Nea Woods. "The school environment's supposed to be about students. Everyone should feel safe whether they're homosexual or not."

The school board-mandated posters sparked a controversy Monday when a handful of the school's 120 teachers said the posters -- which feature pink triangles, a rainbow banner and the words "safe space" -- contradicted their religious beliefs.

TV news crews swarmed the 2,500-student campus Tuesday, and Principal Amy Furtado spent much of the day, the second day of the spring semester, fielding calls from the media, parents and the community.

But so far, the conflicts appear to have been resolved through faculty discussions about the underlying message of the posters, which is to promote tolerance, said Furtado.

[kenny blankenship]

1. Do their religious beliefs forbid that public places should be places

where gay people will be safe? (Does their religion require that they should be, on the contrary, in danger at all times when in public?) That seems to be the objection.

[Zenlitened]

2. Creating a "safe space" contradicts their religious beliefs.

Some religion these folks have got.

What a sickness. What a horrible, horrible disease.

:(

[xchrom]

3. mournful sounding bell

here, we have a winner.

[closeupready]

4. A "Christian" woman recently told me she cut off relations with a gay frie

friend of about 30 years, because "you just have to do that, stop associating with those who live that sinful lifestyle."

I asked her how she could do that to her "friend"? I guess some "Christians" believe in not only hating the sin but the sinner, too. Or maybe gays are just to "uppity" for them, and confuse them. :D