Social conservative Janet Mefferd has
claimed that Christians have a right not to see gays.
While discussing on her radio talk show
the controversy surrounding an Indiana high school where a group of
students want a gay-free prom, Mefferd asserted that schools which
allow gay students to attend prom with a same-sex date are violating
the rights of Christian students who disapprove of being gay.
(Related: Diana
Medley, teacher who said gays have no purpose, won't face
disciplinary action.)
Mefferd said that the rights of gay
students should not outweigh the rights of Christian students.
“Everything is so upside down in our
society now,” Mefferd
told her audience. “And right and wrong have completely
switched where what is really wrong is to say you shouldn't have two
boys allowed to go to the high school prom. Now we can get into a
big issue of the public schools are morally bankrupt at this point
and we all ought to exit and just let them, let them do their thing,
and that may be the ultimate answer. On the other hand, I feel for
these Christian kids who are in a prom or kids who are at this high
school who say, 'You know something, do we have to go down this
road?' Whether the homosexual activists like it or not, and I know
this isn't politically correct to say this, but not everybody wants
to see that. I know that that's offensive to the activist crowd,
they want us all to see it, they want us all to approve of it, they
want us all to call it blessed and okay and rejoice and have parties
and throw confetti in the air over this whole thing. But the fact of
the matter is it's a moral issue. You will always have Christians
who will disagree with this and why should the rights of the
activists trump the rights of Christians?”