I meant to post this a few days ago, but with one thing or another...

From the Statesman.com (via Bookslut):

This month, the St. Andrew's Board of Trustees officially released Cary McNair and his family from their $3 million pledge to the school's capital campaign after McNair objected to the use of "Brokeback Mountain" as reading material in a 12th-grade English class.

"Brokeback Mountain" tells the story of two male ranch hands who fall in love and have a homosexual relationship over many years. The story contains details of gay sex acts. It appeared first in the Oct. 13, 1997, issue of The New Yorker magazine, then as part of a collection of Proulx's short stories, titled "Close Range."

"St. Andrew's has a policy not to accept conditional gifts, whether it's $5 or $500,000. When the McNair family looked at their gift in a conditional manner, then the school could not accept it," said Bill Miller, who was asked by St. Andrew's to serve as its spokesman for this story.

It's even more impressive:  This was actually the last year that the school was going to teach the story (the teacher only uses texts that haven't been made into movies), so the school pretty much refused the money as a matter of principle.  Kickass.