Current Events > Nicholas Sparks tried to ban an LGBTQ+ club and student protest from his school.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/author-nicholas-sparks-tried-to-ban-lgbt-club-student-protests-at-his-christian-school-emails-reveal

Since 2014, members of the Epiphany Schools Board of Trustees, including Sparks, have been locked in a legal battle with the academys former headmaster and CEO, Saul Benjamin, over what the latter describes as a pattern of harassment, racism, and homophobia. Sparks and members of the Board unapologetically marginalized, bullied, and harassed members of the School community, Benjamins attorneys wrote in the complaint, whose religious views and/or identities did not conform to their religiously driven, bigoted preconceptions. Sparks rejected the claims in a 29-page declaration to the court. But emails obtained by The Daily Beast show the romance writer repeatedly taking issue with Benjamins attempts to make the school inclusive to all faiths, races, and sexualities. (Sparks would not provide The Daily Beast with additional comment for this story.)

In one stern message, Sparks chastised the former headmaster for what some perceive as an agenda that strives to make homosexuality open and accepted. In another, he put forward a motion to ban student protest at the school, an impulse that came directly in response to two lesbian girls planning to announce their orientation during chapel. In a third, while listing complaints against Benjamin, he cites misplaced priorities at the school level (GLBT, diversity, the beauty of other religions, as opposed to academic/curricular/global issues, Christian traditions, etc.).

Wtf
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That's it I'm NEVER reading one of his romance novels again
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JACKBUTTMOMMY posted...

AvlButtslam posted...

That's it I'm NEVER reading one of his romance novels again

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Lebronwon posted...

In a third, while listing complaints against Benjamin, he cites misplaced priorities at the school level (GLBT, diversity, the beauty of other religions, as opposed to academic/curricular/global issues, Christian traditions, etc.).

Ironic coming from a divorced man. >_>
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Who?
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Phantom_Nook posted...

Who?

guy who wrote The Notebook
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GLBT

I can't tell if this is lowkey sexism or not. LGBT is the accepted term but he just went ahead and changed it to put men first lol
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Understand that many people now perceive you as having an agenda with which they disagree. Again, you chose to rock this boat too early and hard, not only with Chapel changes, but with what some perceive as an agenda that strives to make homosexuality open and accepted, he wrote

...yikes
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eston posted...

GLBT

I can't tell if this is lowkey sexism or not. LGBT is the accepted term but he just went ahead and changed it to put men first lol

Yeah thats what I got out of that too
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good god the guy who writes terrible romance stories is a douche who would have guessed?
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Sparks chastised the former headmaster for what some perceive as an agenda that strives to make homosexuality open and accepted.

He's acting like that's a bad thing?
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I genuinely did not see this dude whose stories the stereotypical teen girl loves being an anti-lgbt bigot coming

Damn, didn't know he was a bible-thumper. It's Butch Cassidy all over again.
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He's garbage.

And his books? Even more garbage.

My ex-girlfriend made me read the Notebook with her. Fucking awful book :/

there is something really weird about the guy who wrote The Notebook being anti-gay
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the Epiphany School, a Christian academy in North Carolina

This may well fall into the "private club" exception.

How unromantic of him.

Romulox28 posted...

there is something really weird about the guy who wrote The Notebook being anti-gay

Thats what I was thinking.