UTAH: Parents Upset Over Gay Suicide Signs Posted Near Elementary School

[WillParkinson]

UTAH: Parents Upset Over Gay Suicide Signs Posted Near Elementary School

Administrators and parents at a Utah elementary school are upset because a man who lives adjacent to the school has posted the above signs.

Leonard Ridley lives next to Art City Elementary in Springville. He recently posted three signs on his fence, facing the playground after he read news about the recent rash of gay suicides. "The signs of course say stop gay suicide, tell the truth, gays are born gay," Ridley said. "I realized at that point that I was in an enviable location in back of the school and this would be an opportunity to provide information to the children tat would be carried to the adults in their lives, to the teachers, to their parents in particular and carry information concerning homosexuals and homosexuality that would perhaps contradict with the mistaken ideas that they already had."

Saying that many parents had complained, school officials said that suicide was an inappropriate subject for elementary school students. The city has declared that the size of the signs exceed zoning codes and Ridley has agreed to post only one sign at a time.


http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/12/utah-parents-upset-over-gay-suicide.html

[siligut]

1. If only more Utahans would make an effort

The gay people born into the LDS church, they are the most suppressed gays in the US, that I know of. There was one California gay guy who killed himself on the steps of the LDS church, the news was suppressed, his heads-in-the-sand parents stated it had nothing to do with Prop Hate. http://www.affirmation.org/suicide_info/gay_mormon_kills_self_on_church_steps.shtml