(Kearney, Nebraska) It was to have been the trip they would remember for the rest of their lives. The Kearney High School Band was to play at Disney World in Orlando, Florida.

Students have been holding fundraisers to get the money to pay for the June trip, and excitement at the school is already high.

But, when some parents discovered that the day the band was to march through the famous theme park coincided with Gay Days they pulled their children from the trip.

Shelly Rodehorst cancelled the trip for her son and daughter. Her teenaged son is a percussionist and her daughter, a junior clarinet player

Rodehorst says she will not expose her children to" homosexual behavior".

Officials at Kearney High say only a few students have pulled out of the Florida trip because of Gay Days, but gay civil rights advocates in the town say the parents are acting irrationally.

Gay activist Andy Melichar says the parents, "because of their own fears, have decided not to let their kids go. And who's really suffering is the kids."
http://www.365gay.com/newscon04/04/042104bandGay.htm

Although i hate the fact that these parents have pulled their kids out of the event i can honstly say if i were in their position i would have most likely done the same thing.

Not because it was a gay event but because the school failed to inform them of all the details surrounding the excursion.

If these parents had been told from the start that their kids would be performing on Gay Days then i honestly dont think there would have been as much of an issue as there has now been with it.

Regards,

Lee