The ACLU is being kind - no one not even the principal of the high school has the right to out anyone. Coming out is a personal and sensitive thing - and only the individual can decide on when the time is right for them to come forward.

What Principal Beasley did was out of line and out of her jurisdiction. Because she took matters into her own hands with out consulting the students their parents, the board, the school attorneys - she has now put these students in possible danger not only from verbal and emotional assault that they have already encountered but also the possibility of physical assault similar to that of Lawrence King.

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Robb Colleluori
A Bear's Life Magazine