HOT OFF THE SHOW! 5 Teachers Refuse to Hang Gay Poster

Today's San Francisco Chronicle front-paged an article about 5 teachers from San Leandro High School in California who refused to hang posters designed by the school's Gay-Straight Alliance club in their classrooms, because "homosexuality violates their religious beliefs," according to the school's Principal Amy Furtado.

The district school board approved a policy last month requiring all district teachers to hang the posters in their classrooms as an effort "to comply with state laws requiring schools to ensure students' safety and curb discrimination and harassment."



The school's Art teacher, Tom Laughlin, is gay and helped students design the posters. Free Zone which is "an arts for social change collaborative project of GSA Network".

The S. F. Chronicle reports:

"Efforts to change the district's culture with a no-tolerance approach to teasing and harassment of gay students and employees began in 2003 with the hiring of (Superintendent Christine) Lim. For the past two years, teachers have been required to attend annual three-hour sessions addressing the problems faced by gay and lesbian students in school and how to deal with students' homophobic commments."

San Leandro High is taking this seriously. They have a "SLHS is a safe place to be who you are" banner posted on their website's homepage.

Read more of the story here.

And How Schools Push Kids to Accept Pro-Gay Dogma here


Related: The results of our Poll (see left sidebar) for teachers on the issue of Gay Marriage so far are...

For Teachers Only: Do you favor gay marriage?

California Teachers - Yes 22%

California Teachers - No 20%

Teachers - Other States Yes 25%

Teachers - Other States - No 32%

We will run it until Feb. 1st. If you are a teacher please take the poll.



Hear my interview of Karen England of the Capitol Resource Institute on the CTA's (California Teacher's Assn) endorsement of gay marriage (See 1/16/05)


Hear the show today with Randy Thomasson of Campaign for Children and Families on VoteYesMarriage (See 1/25/05)

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