Turing Gays Off

by J.Mejia (jmejia168 [at] yahoo.com)

Tue, Jul 19, 2005 12:34PM

Last month, the Montgomery County Board of Education in suburban Maryland settled a lawsuit over sex education in the county's public schools, brought in part by PFOX (Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays). The group is a branch of a national network of "ministries" that claim homosexuality is a chosen and dangerous lifestyle, and that through "reparative therapy" a gay person can be turned straight -- into an "ex-gay."

PFOX won a restraining order in May and successfully halted the county's new sex ed curriculum, intended, among other things, to promote tolerance toward gays by treating homosexuality as natural and benign. A judge concluded the school curriculum did exclude other views on homosexuality -- namely, those of PFOX. Under the settlement last month, the county agreed to pay $36,000 of PFOX's legal expenses. The group also gets a seat at the table in drafting a new sex ed curriculum for county schools.

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§organize

by then sue

Thu, Jul 21, 2005 6:31AM

This shows that organizing and suing can be very effective,
even for fascist nuts.

People there need to organize some kind of straight/queer alliance,
like "Citizens for Sanity", and also sue for a place at the table.

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