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eduardo89
01-29-2012, 03:25 PM
Superintendent Bullies Student for Article Opposing Homosexuality (http://thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/10687-superintendent-bullies-student-for-article-opposing-homosexuality)
The New American
Dave Bohon
27 January 2012


A Wisconsin school superintendent may be rethinking how he dealt with a student who wrote a school newspaper article condemning homosexuality as sinful. As part of an assignment for his journalism class, which is responsible for producing the school newspaper, 15-year-old Shawano High School student Brandon Wegner contributed half of a pro-con editorial feature on adoption by homosexual couples, using Scripture to buttress his case against same-sex couples adopting children.

Wegner, who was raised in a Christian home, pointed out that, according to Leviticus 18:22, “it is an abomination” for couples of the same sex to be intimately involved. With perfect biblical logic, Wegner wrote that “God made man and woman with the intention of them getting married to each other and having children. As Christians, same-sex partnership is against many Christian beliefs so why would it be okay for them to adopt children?”

He went on to note that in a God-centered culture, “homosexuality is a perversion, not a lifestyle choice. In today’s world, many Christian people generally base their values and beliefs on the Bible, and using that guideline, homosexuality is wrong, which leads us to the conclusion that homosexuals adopting is wrong because a child should not be raised in a sinful environment.”

According to the Green Bay Press Gazette, after the school published the article, a local homosexual couple complained, with one of them, Nick Uttecht, telling the district that “he thinks the piece opposing gays as parents is hateful and should not have run.” The newspaper said Uttecht worried that “the strong language will hurt his children and could lead students to bully gay classmates.”

School district officials quickly apologized for Wegner’s piece, calling it a “form of bullying and disrespect,” with district superintendent Todd Carlson declaring in a written statement: “Offensive articles cultivating a negative environment of disrespect are not appropriate or condoned by the Shawano School District.” Carlson added his assurance that the district was “taking steps to prevent items of this nature from happening in the future.”

Part of the district’s preventive measures apparently included a little bullying on the part of Carlson toward Brandon Wegner, according to the Liberty Counsel, the legal advocacy group representing the student and his family in possible action against the district.

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