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ALLIANCE DEFENSE FUND
NEWS RELEASE
February 24, 2006 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT ADF MEDIA RELATIONS: (480) 444-0020
ADF attorney says sexually oriented
program, lessons
violated
North Carolina law
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.
ADF is a legal
alliance defending the right to hear and speak the Truth through
strategy, training, funding, and litigation.
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