Anti-Gay Hate Lit Distributed to High School Students

This is outrageous:

Some Montgomery County high schools passed out fliers this week from an organization that contends gays can become heterosexual through therapy, and the schools say they cannot prevent the use of their distribution system by such groups. The fliers, from the group Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays, were distributed Thursday alongside report cards by teachers at Winston Churchill High School in Potomac. The group says it delivered them to about half the county's high schools this week and plans to do the same at the remaining high schools at the end of the school year.

Ex-gay therapy is quackery. No reputable professional organization backs it. From the LA Times last August:

There is no evidence to support the claims of some practitioners that sexual orientation can be changed through therapy, a special committee of the American Psychological Assn. reported today. Mental health professionals should not tell patients that they can change their sexual orientation and instead should help them "explore possible life paths that address the reality of their sexual orientation," according to the report, which was released at a Toronto meeting of the association and online. Although the majority of scientists now believe that sexual orientation is genetically predetermined, many therapists have claimed to be able to change gay people into straight ones. Spurred by the controversy surrounding such claims, the APA in 2007 appointed a six-member committee of experts to examine the review and update the association's 1997 report on the subject. Today's 138-page report, approved by the APA's governing council, represents their conclusions.

The ex-gay movement is a fraud perpetrated by religious bigots and its true purpose isn't converting gay people to straight people—although they're more than happy to prey on the vulnerable, self-hating homos their religious bigotry helps to create—but to convince straight people that the public debate about gay rights, debates about gay employment protections and gays in the military and gay marriage that some find deeply discomforting, could be avoided if gay people weren't so damn stubborn. If gay people would just submit to a little "ex-gay" therapy we could all be magically converted to heterosexuality and—poof!—no more conflicts about gay rights, no more arguments about marriage equality, no more need to let openly gay people serve in the military, because no more gay people!

It's like arguing that baptism is solution to anti-semitism.

Back to the Washington Post:

The schools are required to distribute literature that isn't deemed hate speech from any registered nonprofit organization four times a year, the result of a 2006 lawsuit, said Dana Tofig, a spokesman for the Montgomery County Public Schools.

This lit is hate speech. But if the anti-gay bigots can send anti-gay literature home with high schoolers—some of whom are gay and no doubt struggling—because they registered their hate groups as nonprofits, then pro-gay organizations—registered nonprofits like PFLAG and GLSEN—can send pro-gay literature home with middle schoolers too.