This is re COLORADO, not Kansas as formerly indicated:

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Aurora, COLORADO --according to the associated press, in feb. or march of this year, posters with a message of tolerance about lesbians and gays were banned from the hallways of Smoky Hill High School. the banning was done by the assistant principal, Michael Murphy, since the principal, Mary Jarvis, was out of town. Murphy's rationale was that, though he supports the "concept of tolerance," but did not think the message was "appropriate" for the school building and feared that some students might react violently. The posters had the name of the student club involved, which is "Homosexuals Heterosexuals Alliance Reaching for Tolerance." Murphy is reported to have indicated that "he would allow" the group to have posters spelling out its name in classrooms of teachers who didn't object, but that the posters could NOT include what he termed "explicit messages" OR the words "homosexual, gay or lesbian." For posting in nonclassroom sectors of the school, Murphy stipulated that posters have to use the group's acronym (HHART) rather than spell out its full name.