Tennessee adviser removed after yearbook publishes profile of gay student

[jayschool]

From the Student Press Law Center, another SPLC that fights the good fight:

TENNESSEE — A journalism adviser who was at the center of a controversy surrounding a yearbook article about an openly gay student has been reassigned.

Lenoir City High School English teacher James Yoakley was informed last week that he has been removed from the yearbook and newspaper and transferred to Lenoir City Middle School.

The school district’s decision comes about a month after the LCHS yearbook published a profile of then-senior Zac Mitchell. In the piece, titled “It’s OK to be gay,” Mitchell discusses his decision to come out as gay during eighth grade.

The story — which was packaged with a photo — also features direct quotes from Mitchell about an experience he had cross-dressing with a friend.

Read the rest here: [link:http://www.splc.org/news/newsflash.asp?id=2384|

[xfundy]

1. Amazing.

I once believed that ignorance was a natural state, changeable by education, and therefore ignorance can't be taught.

Now it appears that the instincts and ignorance we're all born with is still too librul for cancervatives. It must be supplanted with a malignant, manufactured form that leaves the indoctrinated helpless if they ever leave the hive of hatred.