Issue: Cd’A superintendent pitches district’s need for renovations: Amend says he’s optimistic levy will pass when March 14 arrives/Linda Ball, Coeur d’Alene Press. And: Mica Flats presentation becomes heated debate about Gay Straight club/Linda Ball, Coeur d’Alene Press
DFO: Local Republicans are wrong to hold this spring’s important levy election hostage because some of them oppose the Gay-Straight Alliance at Lake City High. They’re also wrong in not recognizing that the alliance has met criteria to become a club and, therefore, has a right to assemble on campus. They should be grateful that Lake City High has an open-club policy that allows Bible clubs to meet and ministers to come on campus. Some atheists I know mistakenly consider this a violation of the church-state separation principle. It’s a public school. And gays and straights are part of the public that has a right to assemble on campus. (And, yes, like Superintendent Harry Amend, I am a Christian believer.)
Question: Are local Republicans overreacting?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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