Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) denounced the lawsuit filed today against Lexington schools as an attack on the community’s gay & lesbian families.

“Loving, stable gay and lesbian families send their kids to school all over this state.  Those families and kids need to be acknowledged and respected by their teachers and school systems, in order for the kids to have a safe, supportive learning environment,” said Lee Swislow, GLAD’s Executive Director.

“We applaud Lexington schools for their principled and common sense approach to implementing a curriculum that reflects the diversity of families.  We respect Lexington’s decision to stand by their gay and lesbian families.”

Swislow went on to say, “This lawsuit is nothing less than an attempt to intimidate school officials by people who refuse to acknowledge that loving, stable gay families exist, and who wish that their kids didn’t have to go to school with the kids of gay parents.”

Swislow went on to say that the lawsuit was a misapplication of the state’s Parental Notification law.  “The law applies to sex education, not acknowledging the existence of gay families.”

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