The School went to court to force the teacher to remove this material from the bulletin board because it contradicted (violated?) the School's curriculum that promoted tolerance and diversity. THE COURT BACKED THE SCHOOL'S POSITION! The teacher is NOT permitted to express his own moral beliefs on a bulletin board.

Yes folks, the freedom of speech in the politically correct USA only applies to people who uphold today's politically correct language. The freedom of speech no longer applies to everyone equally, but rather this freedom is reserved for only a portion of americans--not everyone; so much for tolerance and diversity!

Those people who blindly hold the banner of tolerance and diversity the highest, need to open their eyes to the actual meaning of the banners that they are waving.

The full article may be found at http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/2000/09/08/NEWS10488.dtl  

Below are excerpts from this secular newspaper:

Court backs anti-gay ban in schools Bob Egelko OF THE [San Francisco] EXAMINER STAFF

Sept. 08, 2000

L.A. teacher sought to counter gay pride activities, materials in the hallways

Los Angeles schoolteacher Robert Downs thinks homosexuality is immoral, so he was unhappy when his district declared a Gay and Lesbian Awareness Month each June, and even unhappier when colleagues posted rainbow flags and gay pride materials on school bulletin boards.

Downs put up his own bulletin board in a hallway near his classroom and posted pictures of a traditional family, the text of a federal law against same-sex marriage and the Supreme Court ruling against sodomy - and, eventually, a biblical passage calling homosexuality "detestable."

The principal ordered him to stop, saying he was violating not only the district's policy but also its curriculum that promoted tolerance and diversity. On Thursday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the school hadn't violated Downs' freedom of speech.

Downs can express his views "on the sidewalks, in the parks, through the chat-rooms, at his dinner table, and in countless other locations" - but not on bulletin boards that are overseen by school officials and are the official voice of the school, the court said.

A school district, like other government agencies, "may decide not only to talk about gay and lesbian awareness and tolerance in general, but also to advocate such tolerance if it so desires, and restrict the contrary speech of one of its representatives," said Judge Stephen Trott in the 3-0 ruling, upholding a federal judge's dismissal of the suit.

Downs, who has taught in the Los Angeles Unified School District for 20 years, said he would appeal.

"If the government can step in and take sides on that issue, and prohibit anything opposed to their view, then you have a government that is totalitarian in nature," he said.

Cases discussed in Thursday's ruling included censorship of a student newspaper and exclusion of Planned Parenthood ads from a school yearbook. The appeals court said a school might have to allow alternative viewpoints in such cases, which involve student expression - but not on billboards that express the school's official policy and curriculum.

The Los Angeles school board first designated June as Gay and Lesbian Awareness Month in 1997 and distributed posters and other materials to schools. At Downs' special education high school in suburban Reseda, teachers put up a bulletin board and added their own posters and banners on topics such as gays and lesbians in history, domestic partner benefits and gay-bashing.

Downs said he was particularly offended by a religious statement saying homosexuality was morally acceptable. He said he complained to the principal, who told him he could put up his own material as long as it wasn't discriminatory and didn't violate the separation of church and state. But when other staff members complained, the principal ordered him to take the material down.

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In the Netherlands, there is now virtually no difference between traditional marriage and homosexual marriage; read today's news:

http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000912/11/news-netherlands-gay-marriage  

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Of course the below is not news, as even the Boston Globe printed a science article that demonstrated that the "search for the gay gene" has ended because researchers have concluded that homosexuality is simply NOT genetic. Not that you'd ever know it by reading mainstream media which continues to quote unfounded claims by homosexual advocates. If you're interested in the science truth on this subject, read the NARTH website and EXODUS, both of which are linked on UCMPage.org (as well as many other places).

The complete article is at http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=\Culture\archive\200009\CUL20000912a.html  

Here's a brief excerpt:

Homosexuality Not Innate, Expert Says By Lawrence Morahan CNS Senior Staff Writer September 12, 2000

Washington (CNSNews.com) - The emotional debate about homosexuality is basically a substitute for a deeper debate on religious and political freedom, a leading psychiatrist told members of a prominent conservative public policy group on Monday.

The premise that homosexuals cannot change is "an obvious lie," Dr Jeffrey Satinover told members of Toward Tradition, a conservative Judeo-Christian public policy group at their annual convention in Washington, DC.

"Today, it's commonplace to insist that differences between men and women are environmentally constructed while those between homosexuals and heterosexuals are genetic," he said.

"Homosexuals are not another species," said Satinover, a prominent psychiatrist who treats homosexuals and who knows hundreds of homosexuals who have undergone profound changes.

"Homosexual activists and their allies, however, won't permit an open debate on the subject," Satinover said.