An Indiana teacher who supported efforts to hold a high school prom that would exclude gay students has been placed on administrative leave. Diana Medley, a special education teacher in the Northeast School district in Sullivan County, gained attention earlier this month after she voiced support for a "traditional prom" at Sullivan High School, which is part of the Southwest School Corp. Medley also criticized gays during a meeting related to the effort saying she did not think gays had a purpose. “A gay person isn’t going to come up and make some change unless it’s to realize that it was a choice and they’re choosing God,” she told a Terre Haute television station, WTWO. On Wednesday, the Northeast School Corp. superintendent released a statement announcing Medley’s leave. "As many of you know and appreciate, our school corporation is continuing to manage as responsibly and respectfully as possible the fallout from comments made by an employee as she attended a meeting outside of school or a school activity," Superintendent Mark A. Baker said in the statement. "We have conveyed our disappointment and our disagreement with these statements and have emphasized her comments do not reflect our schools' views or opinions." Baker also said that the district has had to place security outside its high school because of Medley's remarks. “This matter has created some heartbreaking differences in opinion," Baker said. "Please know we are always going to put the safety of our students and faculty first and any disruption of our educational process will be managed quickly. "In response to our concerns for the safety and security of everyone in our buildings, we have placed the employee at the center of this concern on administrative leave."