‘Reprehensible and disgusting’: Censoring the ex-homosexual message
Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia Montgomery County Courthouse IMG_3344 (Photo credit: OZinOH ) March 5, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Joshua Starr called it “reprehensible,” “deplorable” and “disgusting.” What could trigger such a response? Child sexual abuse by a teacher? Drug dealing in the high schools? A drunk driving accident that killed students? No - it was a one-page flier distributed to students in several Montgomery County, Md. , high schools as part of the “backpack flier” program that helps nonprofit organizations reach students in the schools. The flier included “disgusting” declarations such as, “All individuals deserve the right to self-determination and happiness,” and such “reprehensible” advice as “[I]mportant decisions should not be made on feelings alone.” The controversy arose not because of its relatively innocuous content, but because of its source: an organization called Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays...