SNOQUALMIE, Wash. – What started as a speech on racial equality turned into something much more.

The controversial Rev. Dr. Ken Hutcherson of the Antioch Bible Church was asked to talk about equality and his personal struggle with racism growing up in the South at a Martin Luther King Jr. remembrance program at the school.

But teacher Kit McCormick, who is the advisor to the school’s Gay Straight Alliance, stood up and challenged Dr. Hutcherson’s anti-gay stand.

“I think the students of Mount Si needed to know the truth, that he is not about equality for everyone. He’s about equality for some people,” said McCormick.

“I am used to getting things thrown at me because that’s who I am and what I do, and what I stand for oftentimes is controversial,” he said.

Dr. Hutcherson says while he welcomes the debate on the issue of gay rights, the school assembly was not the forum.

“I felt that I had not been disrespectful. I had asked a question and I felt like I couldn’t sit and not say anything. I felt like this was a moment that I had to stand up and say something,” said McCormick.

“Certainly, it was very embarrassing,” Mount Si principal Randy Taylor summed up the day’s events.