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dlwickham

(3,316 posts)
Sat Feb 16, 2013, 03:36 PM Feb 2013

Anti-Gay Preacher Bradlee Dean’s Lawyer Demands Florida School Allow Him To Speak To Kid

Bradlee Dean apparently has a new lawyer, the Liberty Counsel, and they’re demanding a Florida high school allow Dean and his anti-gay hate group be allowed to speak to a student club. Dean, and his “youth ministry group,” You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International — which has been deemed a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center — were invited by a conservative student group to speak but asked to leave by the school principal during their presentation.

“Principal William Latson said the American Club’s faculty sponsor failed to get prior permission from school administrators, which is required under school district policy. So he instructed Dean to leave. Latson said the sponsor realized the error and has resigned from the club,” Scott Travis at the Sun Sentinel reports:

But in the eyes of a conservative legal group, Latson has engaged in “unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination,” banning the speaker because of his conservative Christian views on homosexuality. The Orlando-based Liberty Council sent a complaint to Superintendent Wayne Gent.

“We see serious constitutional problems with the principal censoring religious and political expression simply because they are deemed ‘offensive’, especially when there are no specific, articulable facts to support such an assertion,” said Horatio G. Mihet, a lawyer for the Liberty Counsel.

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/anti-gay-preacher-bradlee-deans-lawyer-demands-florida-school-allow-him-to-speak-to-kids/politics/2013/02/16/60644

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Anti-Gay Preacher Bradlee Dean’s Lawyer Demands Florida School Allow Him To Speak To Kid (Original Post) dlwickham Feb 2013 OP
This makes me sick libodem Feb 2013 #1
I laughed out loud when I heard Christians flip out over that richmwill Feb 2013 #3
Rich isn't it libodem Feb 2013 #4
Michele Bachmann supports and promotes him Angry Dragon Feb 2013 #2

libodem

(19,288 posts)
1. This makes me sick
Sat Feb 16, 2013, 04:10 PM
Feb 2013

In light of how abrasive the reception was, for Obama's first national address to school children. Remember that? The uproar that the President was doing some kind of influence/brainwashing of children, because his talk was transmitted directly to all schools. It seemed so petty and over reactive. All he wanted to do was encourage kids to do well.

Who does this guy think he is. So glad he was bounced. I need a shower.

richmwill

(1,326 posts)
3. I laughed out loud when I heard Christians flip out over that
Sat Feb 16, 2013, 05:47 PM
Feb 2013

They were "so worried" and "horrified" about how very wrong it was for the President to "brainwash" children... Walk into ANY church or "ministry group" and look at how many Christian coloring books, comic books, children's toys, music cd's, etc. you find.

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