A Teachable Moment: Pro-gay parent activists? In Alabama?

Dan82 · Oct 12, 2010

http://www.annistonstar.com/view/fu...oment--Pro-gay-parent-activists--In-Alabama-?

Oxford resident Jason Childs is a new kind of disgruntled parent.

For more than a week, Childs has been calling the Alabama Board of Education, trying to get on its meeting agenda. A professional truck driver, former Baptist minister and parent of two Oxford students, Childs, 39, wants to talk to the board about gay rights in Alabama public schools.

The kicker? Childs is pro-gay.

He wants the board to lay down the law on anti-gay bullying once and for all.

“We’re not preparing our kids for the real world,” he said. “When these kids go out into the workplace, they’re going to be working alongside people of all different backgrounds, but they can’t learn to do that if we won’t teach them.”

Childs said Monday he got a letter late last week from the board informing him he won’t be allowed to speak. He plans to attend the meeting anyway, if only to be present to discuss his concerns with anyone who will listen.

Childs’ quest to talk to the board is just the latest round in a fairly hush-hush debate about anti-gay bullying that has been percolating in Montgomery for more than a year.

It all started when the Legislature – at the behest of anti-bullying groups around the state – passed a law that requires every school system in the state to draft a policy for dealing with bullying. The law even described some specific types of bullying that should be specifically addressed in the law – like bullying based on race, religion or gender...

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Emberstone · Oct 12, 2010

the problem kind of is right now that it is being done on a district by district basis. we need a law that deals with bullying that is applied universally. That way, more biggoted school district leaders cant just make loopholes, or weaken it to the point that beating up someone who is gay is only a slap on the wrist.

IsItSo · Oct 12, 2010

People like him give me more faith in people as a whole.

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