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Adenoid_Hynkel

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Mon Apr 15, 2013, 07:14 PM Apr 2013

WV principal threatens vengeance on student who spoke out over controversial abstinence-only speaker

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A student at George Washington High School asked for an injunction in Kanawha Circuit Court against the school's principal Monday, after she alleges he threatened to call the college where she's been accepted and tell them she has "bad character" for speaking up against an abstinence-only assembly held at the school last week.

Katelyn Campbell, the school's student body vice president, refused to attend an assembly where Christian speaker Pam Stenzel told GW students "condoms aren't safe" and warned that any type of sexual contact would lead to sexually transmitted diseases and cause women to be infertile, according to an audio recording of her presentation.

In her YouTube videos, Stenzel shouts and says things such as women who take birth control are "10 times more likely to contract a disease . . . or end up sterile or dead." She allegedly told GW and Riverside students, "If your mom gives you birth control, she probably hates you."

Since the assembly, Campbell and other students and parents have voiced their concern with the school's allowance of Stenzel's presentation, which was sponsored by Believe in West Virginia, a religious organization. Campbell, 17, was featured on CNN Monday morning to talk about the assembly, which she referred to as "slut-shaming."


http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201304150062


VIDEO here: http://www.wchstv.com/newsroom/eyewitness/130412_15268.shtml
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WV principal threatens vengeance on student who spoke out over controversial abstinence-only speaker (Original Post) Adenoid_Hynkel Apr 2013 OP
I hope she sues his ass off. shenmue Apr 2013 #1
That is frightening. nt prayin4rain Apr 2013 #2
I saw a video of this speaker on CNN this morning, and the Laurian Apr 2013 #3
Seriously, are we living in the 1600's? Wednesdays Apr 2013 #4

Laurian

(2,593 posts)
3. I saw a video of this speaker on CNN this morning, and the
Mon Apr 15, 2013, 07:19 PM
Apr 2013

student who complained is correct. The information being given to the students in this assembly was ignorant and hateful.

Wednesdays

(17,249 posts)
4. Seriously, are we living in the 1600's?
Mon Apr 15, 2013, 07:29 PM
Apr 2013

Between this, and the thread about the integrated prom in Georgia, makes me wonder...


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