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High School Allows Same-Sex Valentines After Controversy

il_570xN.418841119_kqqzUtah High School Reverses Policy, Allows Same-Sex Valentines 

By Meredith Bennett-Smith
A Utah high school has reversed course this week, after controversy arose over a potential ban on same-sex Valentine’s Day messages.
The issue at Copper Hills High arose earlier this month, when members of the school’s choir handed out fliers announcing that there would be “No Same-sex Delivery” of their singing Valentines, reports The Salt Lake Tribune.
The flier was reportedly considered offensive by at least some students.
Dylan Lukes, co-president of the Copper Hills gay-straight alliance club, told The Tribune it “upset a lot of the