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Re: Not here to condemn, etc. Not punctual, either.
Posted By: gabby, on host 206.64.3.22
Date: Wednesday, November 1, 2000, at 19:48:49
In Reply To: Re: Not here to condemn, but to urge self-control. posted by Faux Pas on Tuesday, October 24, 2000, at 09:09:38:

> > On "How to vote" rather than "who to vote for," there is a measure on the Oregon ballot which would effectively ban public schools from promoting homosexuality. It was made in response to events at Grant High School in Portland, where, among many other things you can read if you really want to, students were advised to try gay sex at least twice and shown videos pertaining to just that.
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> In response to someone else who tried to search for the veracity of this information and failed, the school in question is not Grant High School (not that the school's name was mentioned in any news articles, various other schools were mentioned -- see below), nor could I find any reference to any school in Portland, OR, where students were advised to try gay sex.
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> The closest thing I could find are articles such as this one http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/news/oregonian/00/09/lc_12gay17.frame and this one http://www.gaypdx.com/news/Default.asp?ArticleID=39&Category=Political -- and several other articles that show bias towards one camp or another.
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> Most likely, this claim that a school teacher told students on two separate occassions to try gay sex (or to try gay sex at least twice), is something that has been spread by people who oppose homosexuality and support that measure.
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> Did you hear about this "try gay sex" thing from a news report, or was it something that someone told you/e-mail that was sent/overheard gossip?
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> -Faux "seeker of things" Pas

Most of the info I found were collected from newspapers in Oregon.

gab"Awkward sentence, but 'Oregonian' usually refers to only one newspaper in Oregon"by