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If possible, we might be able to change it back to what it was before.”

Sparks said he had never heard a word about the policy from other headmasters.

“The reason I never heard it was because the school does NOT, nor has it EVER, discriminated,” he said. “There was no simmering, hidden problem with any of these issues, at least as far as the school, or school personnel, or school policy was concerned: Nor was there a simmering problem within the student body.”

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However, in a ruling last October, U.S.

District Judge James Dever threw out that portion of the case.

A trial is set to be held in August on the remaining issues, including whether Benjamin was defamed or discriminated against due to a perception that he had a mental illness. “Frankly, no one but you wanted it in there… Please stop implying it was something the [Board Of Trustees] wanted to do, it’s the law….

It has nothing to do with racism or vestiges of Jim Crow. It comes down to 1) Money and 2) Culture.”

Sparks also upbraided Benjamin for changing the school’s chapel program to teach the “Christian equivalence of Islam and Judaism.” Sparks faulted Benjamin for adding “sexual orientation” to the list of protected groups in the school’s non-discrimination policy.

“About the non-discrimination policy you keep bringing up: please remember that sexual orientation was NOT in there originally, and that the only reason it was added was that YOU insisted it be specifically be [sic] added,” Sparks wrote.

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Nicholas Sparks Responds as LGBT Discrimination Claim Resurfaces

Nicholas Sparks, the prolific author of romance novels, is facing renewed allegations that he discriminated against gay students at his Christian school in North Carolina.

The allegations were first leveled by Saul Benjamin, the former headmaster of the Epiphany School of Global Studies, in a wrongful termination suit he filed in 2014.

Not allowing them to have a club is NOT discrimination.”

Sparks’ suit alleged that he was fired in part because he spoke up against the school’s discriminatory practices. I am currently engaged in a several years-long lawsuit with a former headmaster of the school. Very importantly, the Court has dismissed all claims of discrimination or harassment against me.

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‘The Notebook’ Author Nicholas Sparks Affirms Support For LGBTQ Community; Opposing Attorney Says Writer’s Emails “Speak For Themselves” – Update

UPDATE, with attorney responseThe Notebook author Nicholas Sparks has released a lengthy, 500-word-plus statement in which he expresses “regret” and apologizes for his words that “have potentially hurt young people and members of the LGBTQ community, including my friends and colleagues in that community.”

But an attorney for the former headmaster of the faith-based school co-founded by Sparks responded to today’s statement by countering that the bestselling author’s old emails “continue to speak for themselves and demonstrate Nicholas Sparks’s unmistakable lack of support for an LGBT club or the students affected by anti-LGBTQ+ bullying at the school.”

Sparks’ new statement arrives four days after the publication of an article on The Daily Beast website that quoted and/or reprinted old emails written by Sparks that suggested anti-gay bias.

My greatest regret, however, is not my lack of deliberation, but first and foremost that I failed to be more unequivocal about my support for the students in question.

“It’s never been my intent to be unresponsive to the needs of the LGBTQ or any minority community. I am an unequivocal supporter of gay marriage, gay adoption, and equal employment rights and would never want to discourage any young person or adult from embracing who they are.

“When in one of my emails I used language such as “there will never be an LGBT club” at Epiphany, l was responding heatedly to how the headmaster had gone about initiating this club – like most schools, Epiphany has procedures and policies for establishing any student club.

Similarly, when I referred to a prior headmaster addressing the presence of gay students “quietly and wonderfully,” I meant that he supported them in a straightforward, unambiguous way – NOT that he in any way encouraged students to be silent about their gender identity or sexual orientation.

“In 2013 I was embroiled in a rapidly escalating conflict and besieged by vociferous complaints about a wide range of incidents involving the headmaster’s behavior.

It’s not because of what we as a school has or hasn’t done. I only wish I had used those exact words. The emails came to light during a legal battle pitting Sparks and the faith-based Epiphany School of Global Studies against former headmaster Saul Benjamin.

In today’s statement, Sparks, whose The Notebook currently is being adapted as a Broadway musical, produced by Kevin McCollum (Avenue Q, Rent, In the Heights) and Kurt Deutsch, affirmed his “unequivocal” support for “gay marriage, gay adoption, and equal employment rights and would never want to discourage any young person or adult from embracing who they are.”

Here is today’s Sparks statement in full:

“As someone who has spent the better part of my life as a writer who understands the power of words, I regret and apologize that mine have potentially hurt young people and members of the LGBTQ community, including my friends and colleagues in that community.

“Thirteen years ago, I founded the Epiphany School of Global Studies anchored in the commandment to love God and your neighbor as you love yourself.

According to the article, written by Tarpley Hitt, Sparks (a trustee of the school he co-founded in 2006) “chastised” Benjamin for (in Sparks’ own words) promoting “an agenda that strives to make homosexuality open and accepted.”

Following the release today of Sparks’ new statement, Benjamin’s attorney Lawrence M.

Pearson issued the following response to Deadline:

“The emails continue to speak for themselves and demonstrate Nicholas Sparks’s unmistakable lack of support for an LGBT club or the students affected by anti-LGBTQ+ bullying at the school. I believe in and unreservedly support the principle that all individuals should be free to love, marry and have children with the person they choose, regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation.

Ironically, as a writer I should have understood the power and enduring nature of my words, but like many people sent emails off in haste under stressful and tumultuous conditions. As a result of that suit, several e-mails from me have been released to the public that on the surface, portray me as someone intolerant of having an LGBTQ club at the school.

This new and belated statement by Mr. Sparks will be subject to cross-examination at trial, where it will be contrasted with other statements he has made on the subject of LGBTQ+ inclusion. My concern was that if a club were to be founded, it be done in a thoughtful, transparent manner with the knowledge of faculty, students and parents – not in secret, and not in a way that felt exceptional.

“I am pleased that the Court has dismissed nearly every claim against me, my Foundation and Epiphany. This is and has always been a core value of mine.