Superintendent Jerry Colonna told McCracken last month that the district was going ahead with the 20-photo exhibit with photos of families with gay or lesbian members. Other images include single-parent families, mixed-race families and children being raised by grandparents...

...I'm here to voice my outrage and sadness at this ridiculous idea of forcing this agenda on our children, Kari Tertadian said. I believe homosexuality is morally wrong. You will not teach this to my kids. I will opt out. It just boils my blood, to be honest....

...Not all the speakers Monday opposed the exhibit. Randy Koval, a school psychologist whose three sons have attended Beaverton schools, said there is a painful silence in the schools on the issue. When he visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., it reminded him of the treatment of sexual minorities. When we start picking on one group, every group is vulnerable, he said. This is not a gay issue, it's a people issue.

Minister decries school exhibit—The Oregonian, 10th December 2003.