So what does an anti-LGBT pamphlet look like?
Unfortunately kids on a school bus found out what exactly goes into spreading hate and misunderstanding. Good lord. For all of us that remember riding the school bus, it was bad enough without having adults on there spreading ignorance.
[Someone] boarded school buses at the Kyabram P-12 College in regional Victoria and distributed Christmas presents to all the students. Inside the gold packaging, though, was a message of hate. Inside was a pamphlet from the Marriage Alliance, an anti marriage equality group. The pamphlet linked an LGBTQ anti-bullying program in the school system to same sex marriage, trying to convince students or their parents that allowing same sex marriage would somehow impact heterosexual families. – teenvogue.com
When I was teaching high school, I was the advisors for many organizations, one of them was the Civil Rights Team. I guess I was fortunate that I didn't receive any negativity from or hear of any from parents or even other students.
The pamphlet called out certain activities that would have been supported by my Civil Rights Team, like the idea of "Safe Schools" and its LGBTQ Anti-Bullying Program. We would as well have supported the idea of gender fluidity and that being straight is not the only way humans are.
The person that organized the pamphlet distribution did not have permission from the school to do so and apparently didn't have any orders from Marriage Alliance to hand out the presents filled with ignorance.
Should there be charges brought against the "pamphlet passer-outer?"
Did they do anything wrong by passing out "educational" material to these students?
h/t: teenvogue.com
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