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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWV 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
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shenmue
(38,503 posts)1. I hope she sues his ass off.
Libel and slander are not legal.
prayin4rain
(2,065 posts)2. That is frightening. nt
Laurian
(2,593 posts)3. I saw a video of this speaker on CNN this morning, and the
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?
Between this, and the thread about the integrated prom in Georgia, makes me wonder...