LYONS ? Lyons school officials will start screening entertainment for the high school’s annual prom banquet after a couple of juniors hit a sour note with school board members last month with a racy skit about Adam and Eve.

The students, who had prepared the skit “The Apple Bit” for class, were asked by prom sponsors to present the piece during the pre-prom dinner April 17. Included among complaints by board members was that the skit insinuated that Adam might be homosexual.

“It’s making very light of God and … God’s sovereignty,” said Deberah Wiens, school board president. “Whether or not I believe that is irrelevant. It’s the fact it’s being presented in a setting where it was known there would be people who were offended.”

Wiens said several of the five school board members who attended the dinner were offended, and she had the same reaction after reading the script.

While there have been no complaints from students or parents, Wiens said, administrators are taking measures to make sure nobody else is offended in the future.

High School Principal Gary Sechrist said he would start previewing the entertainment that juniors provide each year for seniors before prom. Graduation speeches already are screened in advance, he said.

Lyons Supt. Edwin Church said the students were “top-notch” youths who didn’t mean to offend anyone.

“The sponsors invited these students to perform, and if they’d had any idea it would have been offensive to anyone, then they would not have had it presented,” Church said.

Board member Sam Cline said the act was nothing all that unusual, considering the times.

“I just think it’s the type of material that’s prevalent today and considered to be art, and it’s not something the principal is going to cure,” he said.