N.C. Governor's School under pressure from anti-gay group

[Natasha]

N.C. Governor's School under pressure from anti-gay group

http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A260529
7/2/2008

"This summer, one former Governor's School instructor is questioning
the influence that a powerful "family values" group, based in Arizona,
has had on a North Carolina institution that has fiercely guarded its
academic independence.

Tanya Olson, a community college English professor who led the Human
Sexuality Film Series at the Governor's School East Campus in Raleigh
for four years, was not offered her position back for this year's
session, which is now under way. She calls the loss of her job
retribution for her criticism of school administrators and state
officials after they suspended the film series and censored her course
material—apparently in response to the threat of a lawsuit from the
Alliance Defense Fund."

[TamTam]

::shakes head::  Governor's Schools are supposed to be funded by the state, and remain neutral.  How could a lawsuit have harmed the school?  There's nothing to sue for that they would have won.  It's a show of cowardice on the part of state officials if they were cowed by it.