Michigan: Grosse Pointe South Kids Will Hear Santorum Speak -- But Only With Parent Permission

[Purveyor]

Students at Grosse Pointe South High School will get to hear Rick Santorum speak after all — as long as they have signed permission slips from their parents.

District officials agreed Wednesday to reverse a decision canceling the former U.S. senator and presidential hopeful’s visit to the school after a firestorm of controversy.

Santorum was to speak at the high school April 24 after being invited by a local chapter of the group Young Americans for Freedom, which raised $18,000 to sponsor his visit.

But on Monday, the school notified parents in an e-mail that Santorum’s speech was off.

That sparked an outcry among students, who accused school officials of canceling the visit over Santorum’s views on gay marriage and public education.

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http://www.freep.com/article/20130410/NEWS02/130410027/Grosse-Pointe-South-High-School-Rick-Santorum-speech-Langston-Bowens

[Rex]

1. Young Americans for Freedom?

Do they actually have any idea what freedom means? It means you speak out of the goodness of your merry heart. For something you believe in.

Freedom - not just for breakfast anymore kids! We have freedom in the vending machines too!

[JHB]

4. They keep using that word, but it does not mean what they think it means.

YAF is a right-winger incubator founded by William F. Buckley and his coterie in 1960.

It seems to currently be in an uptick of activity as part of the Wingnut Welfare program.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom

[Rex]

6. Thanks! That explains a lot!

I hated William F. Buckley.

[yellowcanine]

8. AKA Young Americans for Fascism.

[left is right]

2. It would be interesting if there were only 10 kids are fewer

that received permission

[MrScorpio]

3. "Do you want to see a dead body?"

[marmar]

5. Slick Rick is coming to town?

[Initech]

7. If I had kids I wouldn't want them listening to Frothy.