Embattled Barnegat Township Mayor Alfonso Cirulli stood by his comments at last month’s township committee meeting in which he denounced upcoming changes in the New Jersey schools curriculum that will require alldistricts on the high school and middle school levels to instruct students on the political, economic and social contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

Speaking before a packed meeting room Sept. 3 where antagonists and supporters seemed equally loud, Cirulli said his…