Hutch, as he is known, was introduced to the student assembly by his daughter, a senior at Mount Si. The kids applauded, but some of the teachers were less enthusiastic with their greeting.

“At the assembly last Thursday my daughter got up and was the one to introduce me. She said, ‘I just want to introduce you to my dad, Ken Hutcherson.’ And several teachers booed.”

Hutch’s daughter was in tears. The speech focused solely on his experience as a black man in the early south. But, at the end of it, he was confronted publicly by Kit McCormick, the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance teacher representative, who told her story to King5 News in Seattle.

“I felt like the students of Mount Si needed to know the truth, and they needed to know that he’s not about equality for everyone. He’s about equality for some people.”

A few days later Hutch’s son was pulled from his middle school MKL Assembly for fear of what parents would say. The high school has since apologized, but the teachers haven’t. Hutcherson is furious.

“Treat me which way you want, but when you start dealing with my kids, you got a whole different story.”

David Almasi of Project 21 says most people don’t believe gay rights should be included in the civil rights movement.

“They see it as the politically motivated. The politically astute gay rights crowd is trying to include themselves in something that they don’t belong in.”

Militant gays and their supporters don’t seem to care.