{"id":182542,"date":"2018-05-16T11:19:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T15:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=182542"},"modified":"2018-05-20T08:49:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T12:49:13","slug":"high-school-apologizes-black-pro-lifer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/high-school-apologizes-black-pro-lifer\/","title":{"rendered":"High school apologizes for Black pro-lifer’s presentation after approving it"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UPDATE, 5\/16<\/strong>: Pro-lifer Ryan Bomberger posted an update to this situation on his Facebook page:<\/p>\n

After receiving a Cease and Desist letter from our attorney, the Vicksburg Community Schools<\/a> District responded with a draft apology within 24 hours to the charges of defamation made in regard to The Radiance Foundation<\/a>‘s life-affirming assembly at Vicksburg High School on May 1, 2018. We’ve received tremendous positive feedback from students, parents and teachers about the ‘Life Has Purpose’ multimedia presentation. A small minority of angry online protestors, emboldened by the school administration’s smear of Radiance and me, spread bigotry and intolerance. We did not want to pursue a lawsuit with the school if the administration would retract its defamatory statements. We simply wanted the school’s leadership to tell the truth. I never veered from the school-approved outline, and it was in no-way “overtly political”. Despite sending blatantly false statements via email to staff and parents, repeating the lies in local news stories, and posting for the world to see on Facebook, the school quietly posted an apology on the district’s website CONFIRMING what we’ve said all along…they were not honest with students, staff, parents or the public. Interestingly, the Principal who approved the speech, then participated in the issuance of the defamatory statements, was named the new Superintendent days after they threw me under the bus….<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n