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"ASHLAND, Ky.—Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund today asked a federal court to immediately prohibit the Boyd County Board of Education from restricting the free speech rights of its students. The district has instructed students through mandatory “diversity training” that if they believe homosexual behavior is wrong, they must keep their opinions to themselves.
“We are filing this motion because students are being forbidden from expressing their own viewpoint on this matter. That’s unconstitutional, and it must stop,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Kevin Theriot.
The motion for preliminary injunction was filed in the case Timothy Allen Morrison, II, et al., v. Board of Education of Boyd County, Kentucky, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, Ashland Division. ADF attorneys filed the lawsuit Feb. 15 on behalf of students and parents who object to the mandatory nature of the district’s “diversity training” and its prohibitions on student speech regarding homosexual behavior.
The training began as the result of the settlement of another lawsuit filed against the Boyd County Board of Education by the Boyd County High School Gay-Straight Alliance, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union.
“The school district is attempting to change the beliefs of students without their parents’ consent,” Theriot said. “The provisions of any settlement arrangement must respect the constitutional rights of students.”
All middle and high school students in Boyd County schools are required to attend the “diversity training.” School policies and practice do not permit parents to opt their children out of the training, even if it violates their personal beliefs and morality."




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