Students and parents alike were shocked in mid-October when a homosexual-themed play, which included a kiss, was staged for students at Hartford Public High School in Connecticut -- and kids weren't given the option ahead of time not to watch it.

 

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The play, staged by a local community theater group and starring local high school and college students, is a musical set in an alternate universe where everyone is gay, except for a few closet heterosexuals. The songs feature raunchy lyrics and two boys share a kiss onstage -- which prompted several students to leave the auditorium.

Hartford Public High School is arranged in a group of four academies -- the Nursing Academy, focused on math and other hard sciences students will use in health care fields; the Law and Government Academy, which focuses on social studies; the Academy of Engineering and Green Technology; and the Freshman Academy, geared toward ninth-grade students. Each academy has its own principal.

The play was for students in the nursing and law and government academies, and it was set to be shown to other students, too. Law and Government Academy Principal Adam Johnson told The Hartford Courant he had no regrets.

"This is as important of a topic to discuss as anything in math, anything in social studies," he said. "I'm completely glad that we did it."

Source: Baptist Press | Karla Dial

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