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Debate Over Play Continues

More than a dozen people addressed the School Board about a play exploring homosexual issues. Loudoun Connection March 11, 2005 By Andrea Zentz The debate over whether Loudoun students should be prohibited from acting in or producing plays that explore … Continue reading

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School Board Urged Not To Censor Students

Leesburg Today March 10, 2005 By Allen Browning The majority among a dozen speakers at Tuesday night’s Loudoun County School Board meeting said they supported greater tolerance of homosexuality and opposed censorship of school plays. However, the majority of the … Continue reading

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Use energies elsewhere

Loudoun Easterner February 23, 2005 By Renee Dean Re: the article from the Feb. 9 edition regarding the Stone Bridge High School play: Mr. Staton states “why are different groups allowed to offend the beliefs of Christians with impunity?” I … Continue reading

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Protests Raised Against Play

Loudoun Connection February 17, 2005 By Andrea Zentz Protests over a student-written high school play exploring homosexuality have subsided, after triggering a barrage of e-mails, letters and phone calls protesting the work. The uproar had students championing their first amendment … Continue reading

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Insight and maturity

Loudoun Easterner February 16, 2005 By Jeri McGiverin, Mainstream Loudoun The Loudoun County School Board’s Committee on Policy has been assigned the dubious task of “investigating” the original one-act play, “Offsides,” put on by the Stone Bridge High School Drama … Continue reading

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Good job, Mr. Person

Loudoun Times-Mirror February 16, 2005 Stone Bridge High School Principal Jim Person must have known he was putting his neck on the block when he approved a student theatrical production that employed the reality of homosexuality to take a good, … Continue reading

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Stone Bridge Play Offends Some

Loudoun Connection February 10, 2005 By Suzannah Evans A student-written, student-directed play that was part of Stone Bridge High School’s “Postcards from Paradise” collection of one-act plays that premiered last weekend has got some people steamed. The play, “Offsides” by … Continue reading

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