2006
Not In Our School: Parent Concerned About State-Sponsored “New Gay Teenager†Seminar
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RALEIGH, N.C. — The Alliance Defense Fund has issued a letter to North Carolina school officials on behalf of a parent requesting that they immediately halt their offering of a seminar titled “The New Gay Teenager.”
“Schools should be required to follow the law. The seminar in question violated North Carolina statutes,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Mike Johnson. “Teaching sexually-oriented material without parental knowledge is not only morally wrong, it is illegal.”
ADF attorneys believe officials broke the law because the organizers of the 2005 Governor’s School program did not follow state protocol, which dictates that schools must notify parents and obtain their authorization before any student can attend a class focusing on sexual matters. A unilateral decision by school officials to offer the controversial seminar apparently came without legal consultation.
“The seminar’s organizers also erred by including anti-religious advocacy in the seminar’s curriculum and activities,” Johnson said. “Such practices breach the First Amendment and require immediate corrective action.”
The letter sent by ADF to state education officials is available at www.telladf.org/UserDocs/BurrowsLetter.pdf.
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