"After a teacher at an Upstate New York middle school asked students to visit the Keith Haring Foundation's website for an assignment, a prominent conservative legal group got involved, claiming that children were "forced: to look at imagery that the organization termed "pornographic," without specifying what that imagery was. The American Center for Law and Justice said in late November that 7th graders at Case Middle School in Watertown, New York,"
"were assigned to look at an "unvetted website containing graphic sexual images as part of an art project." The website was that of the Haring Foundation, according to a letter sent by the ACLJ to the school. In so doing, the school "violated the constitutional rights of parents and traumatized children," per the ACLJ's release. On its website, the ACLJ has repeatedly spoken out against abortion rights, denounced "anti-Israel" causes,"
"It wasn't clear which artworks students encountered by Haring, whose art of the 1980s directly addressed the AIDS epidemic and gay rights. (Haring died in 1990 of AIDS-related causes.) Though widely known today for iconic symbols such as the Radiant Baby, Haring also produced a range of images that featured sexually explicit subject matter. In 2016, a publishing house even put out a book of his so-called "penis drawings.""
A teacher assigned seventh-graders to visit the Keith Haring Foundation website as part of an art project. The American Center for Law and Justice accused the school of exposing students to an "unvetted website containing graphic sexual images" and said the assignment violated parents' constitutional rights and traumatized children. The ACLJ has promoted conservative causes and previously supported Donald Trump's interests. Keith Haring's 1980s work addressed AIDS and gay rights and also included sexually explicit images; a 2016 book collected his so-called "penis drawings." The Haring Foundation site displays sexual material with mature-audience warnings and also operates HaringKids.com with child-focused lesson plans.
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