High school play promotes ‘controversial’ agenda
Recently the Lemont High School staged the play, “The Laramie Project.” The play is a means of promoting a very controversial, political agenda which greatly offends many people in the school and community.

“The Laramie Project” is being heavily promoted to schools by the major homosexual activist groups. They’ve published sophisticated “study guides” for teachers to help them “deflect parents’ objections” about the play. As one such guide admits, “Students may even come to view their most basic values — values that have been a part of their families and communities for generations — in a new light.”

Surprisingly, noted director Robert Brustein’s criticisms of the play are included in the teacher’s guide. He admits the play is a failure dramatically and is basically an argument for hate crimes laws and the normalization of homosexuality.

The play jams into minds the idea that homosexuals are specially targeted victims, and thus need special protection from the rest of society. I believe in equal protection for all not special protection for some.

A clear purpose of the play is to normalize homosexuality in the minds of teens. It draws them into defending and promoting a dangerous lifestyle choice — homosexuality — while turning them against their parents and their parent’s values. It is not the right of the school to change views on morality concerning the behavior of homosexuality. 

And there are serious challenges to the historical accuracy of the play. The very real possibility that this was not a “gay” hate crime is critical information. See “ABC 20/20 Agrees: Matthew Shepard Murdered During Robbery, Not Hate Crime.”
Lisa Grant, Lemont