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Gay-Rights Groups Hit Back At Anti-Gay Fliers In Maryland Schools | Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), along with the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Equality Maryland Foundation, launched a $3,000 flier campaign today in response to anti-gay leaflets that were distributed to students at Albert Einstein High School in Montgomery County, Maryland this past February. The offending fliers originated from Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX), a Virginia-based group, and claimed “that homosexuality is not innate and gay people can change their identities,” a notion that has been largely refuted by the scientific community. The PFLAG leaflets, meant to counter the misinformation being broadcasted by PFOX, maintain that “individuals do not choose to be homosexual or heterosexual, nor is it something ‘that voluntarily can be changed.’” As of Wednesday morning, PFLAG had distributed 50,000 fliers to all 25 high schools in the county. — Fatima Najiy