Louisville private school writing assignment: talk someone out of being gay [View all]

A,Louisville private school is facing criticism after a viral Facebook post showed a class assignment where students had to write a letter to a friend of the same gender who “is struggling with homosexuality.”

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The assignment told students at Christian Academy of Louisville that the aim of the letter was to “lovingly and compassionately speak truth to the person” in a way that “does not approve of any sin."

JP Davis, who posted the screenshots on Facebook, called the assignment "deplorable." Davis told WHAS11 he found out about the assignment after a friend, who has a son at the school, reached out to him wondering what she should do because she was appalled.

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Darin A. Long, superintendent of the Christian Academy School System, said that the assignment was part of a unit of study that discusses: “What are humans and where is their identity?”

“This particular assignment, in context, was how a person could discuss homosexuality with a friend from a biblical perspective with compassion and love,” Long said.

He said that the school is a Christian-based private school that teaches all content with a biblical worldview defined in the school’s Statement of Faith and Theological Documents.

Long said that the document is provided to parents at the time of a student’s application, during family interviews and during school and parent partnership agreements.