Ethics

No Pictures of Gay People!

By Ed Brayton

Here's your bigoted overreaction of the day: the Clovis school board in New Mexico is taking control of the yearbook to make sure that they don't repeat the horrible crime of include lesbian couples in a section of the yearbook on couples at the school:

The Clovis board of education will have final say on content in student publications under a new policy adopted about four months after the high school yearbook published pictures of lesbian couples.

The board voted 3-2 to pass the new publications code Tuesday. The code also gives school principals authority to review students' work before publication...

Photos of two lesbian couples, along with narratives describing their relationships, were included in a features section titled "Do you want to go out?" Also pictured on the two-page spread were nine heterosexual couples.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on October 01, 2008 (boomark / email).