(AgapePress) - An
ex-homosexual group is outraged that one public high school in Virginia
allowed a homosexual speaker to address "Combating Intolerance" class on
campus, but refused to grant equal access to an ex-homosexual speaker.
During James Madison High School's "Sexual
Equality Awareness Week," a homosexual speaker was brought in to promote the
idea of homosexual adoption. However, when the group Parents and Friends
of Ex-Gays (PFOX) asked if it could provide an
ex-homosexual speaker to discuss the discrimination former homosexuals often
face, school officials turned PFOX down.
PFOX executive director Regina Griggs says the Vienna
school even gave students extra credit for attending presentations by the
group Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG).
"If Sexual Equality Awareness Week is to deal with
discrimination, then we have a real problem, because not only did they not
deal with the ex-gay issues, they refused to even allow us to have a voice,"
Griggs says. "I think when schools take away [the opportunity for PFOX to be
heard] -- which they did -- they usurp the rights of the parents [and] the
board. All of this should have been reviewed."
Griggs says she has sent a letter to Daniel Domenech,
superintendent of Fairfax County Public Schools, urging
him to grant her group equal access to schools and allow PFOX to distribute
materials and give presentations in district schools. So far, she has received
no response from Domenech and has only gotten responses from two school board
members.
"We have a school board that is overrun by liberals who
believe that they're liberating people by putting them in bondage, by not
allowing questioning students to know the truth," she says. "That's really
what it's all about."
The PFOX leader admits she does not expect the issue to be
addressed because school board elections take place next month.
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