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is Cleveland High School inscription apply to gays and lesbians?
Does this
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T eachers I ssue S tatement
^ our Cleveland High teachers issued a state-
I ment to the media recently accusing Port­
land Public Schools of encouraging and sup­
porting homosexuality. “Unfortunately, in try­
ing to indoctrinate students and staff into
affirming and celebrating homosexual practices,
the school district has gone far beyond the civil
rights issue,” they say.
The two-page statement includes a list of
facts they say parents, students and the commu­
nity need to know, including: “the scientific
facts refute the myth that homosexuality is
genetically predetermined" and “no one has to
be homosexual and anyone can change.” The
letter calls for instructors to “come out" and tell
the district that “enough is enough.”
The teachers claim to have “scientific
evidence” to share with others. To obtain a
copy of the statement, e-mail a request to
measure9info@yahoo.com.
The letter does not speak directly about the
Oregon Citizens Alliance’s Measure 9, but a
spokesperson for the group, Committee of
Concerned Educators, wrote
Just Out in an e-mail message:
“Please tell your readers that
it’s all right to vote yes on
Measure 9. It does not dis­
criminate against anyone.”
“Measure 9 in no way
threatens their jobs, HIV/
AIDS programs, school gay
and lesbian clubs, the great
writing of homosexuals or any­
thing else that is not specifical­
ly stated in the measure,” the
group wrote.
drown out the hatemongers.
“They’re always outnumbered,” said Jennifer
Laverdure of Radical Women. “There’s never as
many right-wingers as there are people who
oppose them.”
Most of the Phelps followers quietly held
signs with homophobic slurs written on them,
but a couple of vocal local street preachers also
showed up. Although the counterprotesters
were discouraged from doing so, many started
engaging in shouting matches with them.
The Web site GtxlHatesFags.com claims
that Grant is “a hotbed of filthy fag propaganda"
and that a Newberg teacher persuaded a 16-
year-old student to be gay. Waddell &. Reed was
targeted because the company’s name inadver­
tently was linked to the Gay Life Health Net­
work’s Tunnel o f Love...G reatest Hole on Earth
safer-sex forum held earlier this year.
"1 know we were one of the first schools to
include diversity training with its teachers,” said
Grant student Jeremy Yatchmenoff, 15. “We
have books in our school that have to do with
homosexuality, and they think that is turning
our students gay and lesbian and bisexual.”
Yatchmenoff said that students were told
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handful of Westboro Bap­
tist Church protesters
traveled all the way from
Kansas to Oregon to preach
intolerance, but their leader
was nowhere in sight.
Fred Phelps failed to show
up at demonstrations staged
Sept. 8 at Grant and Newberg
high schools and the Portland
office of Waddell & Reed. But
dozens of counterprotesters
from the Lesbian Avengers,
Radical Women and Bigot
Busters came out in full force to
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Counterprotesters confront Phelps followers during
rush-hour traffic