Indiversity Day

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Faced again with controversy over plans for a gay speaker, Viroqua High School officials have cancelled Diversity Day.

The event, held every two years since 2000 for juniors and seniors, had been set for Thursday.

Scheduled speakers included Hmong, Jewish, Muslim, American Indian, African American, Latino, Buddhist, gay, physically disadvantaged and economically disadvantaged people.

But it was called off late last week after a legal group raised a potential challenge to include a formerly gay or Christian viewpoint.

Umm, q'est que fuck?

Let me get this horseshit straight - if I am interpretting that correctly, a GAY speaker is refusing to be heard alongside a FORMERLY gay representative? Somebody's just having us on here - right?

When committee members heard that some wanted the ex-gay viewpoint presented, they contacted the homosexual couple who would be speaking and the couple refused to participate alongside the ex-gay viewpoint.

Gregg Attleson, a Spanish teacher at Viroqua who was on the Diversity Day planning committee stated that the currently-gay couple indicated that they would be "uncomfortable" speaking alongwith ex-gays. Now you'd think that they might actually appreciate talking shop with someone who might actually understand, and even appreciate, from where they were coming from. At the very least, there might have been some sparks of romance. So it all sounds like a big case of sour grapes to me.

“Non-positive groups were not what we were going for,” said Ellen Byers, an English teacher on the committee.

But who knew homosexuals were such haters? Just leave it to the gays to go and spoil all the fun.

“Our students are not going to be living their lives out in Viroqua,” said Attleson. “They’ll be out and about in the world - in jobs, in the military, in the university - and they’re going to come into contact with people of different backgrounds. And we feel it would be real helpful for them in a nice safe place, like a high school, to have contact and be able to dispel some of the stereotypes.” Just imagine what the stereotype must be of ex-gays then if they were excluded from Diversity Day!

It was deemed important to have homosexuals represented because a lot of misunderstanding exists about the issue and because Viroqua has gay students. However, I guess once you cross over that line into total Fagdom, there's simply no coming back. You'd think that the good god-fearing people of Viroqua would embrace with open arms anyone who managed to rescue themselves back from the brink of complete homosexuality. It's like the gay Soprano's or something.

Now, the legal group in question, Liberty Counsel*, argued in a fax that “by excluding the Christian and ex-gay viewpoints, the (Viroqua) District violates the Establishment Clause and the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of equal protection." But here's the best part in my humble oppinion: the fax also stated that Don Greven, pastor of Bad Axe Lutheran Church, and Charles Lind, grandfather of a Viroqua High senior, had raised the concerns about no Christian or formerly gay viewpoints being among the Diversity Day speakers.

You mean it was a Man of God who was complaining that there were no heatherns and former pillow-biters represented? Worlds must be colliding out in the infinite void of space right now because that could very well be the singlemost fucked up thing I have ever heard.

* Which, by the way, is a national public interest law firm with offices in Florida and Virginia. This whole Diversity Day nonsense is just getting too fucking weird now.