FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WOWO): Officials within Northwest Allen County Schools are facing backlash after a play featuring LGBTQ representation was canceled at Carroll High School after two days of auditions. The Journal Gazette reports that an online petition protesting the decision about “Marian: The True Story of Robin Hood” surpassed 2,000 signatures Sunday evening.
The petition gained nationwide exposure from well-known figures to sign and share the document. The online petition said the play includes a same-sex couple and a nonbinary character. It blamed the cancellation on complaints by some parents and adults within the NACS community, claiming some registered their dissatisfaction “using threatening tones.” The play was called off, the petition states, due to what administrators claimed was “safety concerns for the students involved.”
NACS officials have not yet issued comment on the decision.
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Step 1 is stopping the mental ilness from spreading to kids.
Step 2 is identifying the source: those individuals responsible for the content need fired and sued
This garbage needs to stop
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Good! Keep that garbage out of our schools! It is long past time for parents to take back over their kids and purge this woke nonsense!
There was no reason for a few people at Carroll to even attempt a play with the subject matter. The parents did the right thing by shutting it down. It sounds like a few staff and students just want publicity for their alphabet agenda rather than entertaining parents and kids.
Common sense would be to not relate one play to an entire group of people and not to judge people based on their identity but tu sais
Awww, all the little straight white “christians” got their feelings hurt. So much for being kind and compassionate to all people and making everyone feel welcome.
Oof these comments are absolute trash.
Closed minded and so triggered that kids can’t even put on a theatre production.
1st, how do you know that these ppl are “White Christian’s?
2nd, a parent has the right to decide if they think their child isn’t ready to see a play like this. I know I wouldn’t. Let the kids be kids. Let the parent be a parent. That includes protecting their child as long as they can.
Why is it that some ppl feel thay have to push this on others? It’s wrong. I myself have no problems with ppl that are gay. I have family that is. I know many ppl even Christians thinks it’s bad. But God knows us before we are born. He knows if a person will be gay. God loves all no matter what. He never turns his back on us it’s the other way around.