Letter to the editor: LGBTQ+ students represented in Mt. Lebanon – TribLIVE

Id like to offer a rebuttal to the hypocritical letter submitted by Meredith Driscoll and signed by a cohort of other residents (LGBTQ+ students deserve same representation in Mt. Lebanon, June 19, TribLIVE). Ive lived in Mt. Lebanon for 30 years, and my children were educated in the schools.

Driscoll makes a few inane observations. LGBTQ+ students arent denied representation. They have the same representation and right to the same education that every other student has. There is no discrimination.

This lawsuit stems from the fact that a rogue teacher, with an agenda (that she admitted) decided to use materials that were not on the approved curriculum set by our school board.

This writer doesnt seem to understand her hypocrisy. How would she and her fellow letter signees feel if a teacher decided to come in and teach from the Bible? Or perhaps another teacher would come in and teach from Mein Kampf? Or is it only this writer and her pro-LGBTQ+ letter signees who want their views to be taught? I should add that this is for elementary children.

Driscoll says religious schools that actually do indoctrinate and discriminate. I realize that faith is an easy target these days, and everyone wants to point a finger at it and blame it for the worlds problems. However, it is actually the lack of faith, or atheism, that has led to the worlds largest genocides, such as the Bolshevik revolution, Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot.

Brian Foster

Mt. Lebanon

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