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The 1984 Equal Access Act – and the TruthIt’s used by the LGBT movement and the ACLU to force conservative districts to allow GSA school clubs.
MassResistance ^ | April 6, 2026 | MassResistance

Posted on 05/06/2026 9:00:02 AM PDT by fwdude

Given the offensive activities and destructive effects that GSA clubs have in schools, it’s not a surprise that many school officials, parents, and community members don’t want them in their sschools.

GSAs – now variously called “Gay Straight Alliance” or “Genders & Sexualities Alliance” clubs – actively push both sexual orientation and transgender identity propaganda on schoolchildren from elementary school through high school.

But when the existence of a GSA in a public school is challenged, the aggressive answer by LGBT movement’s legal groups, including the ACLU, is that the 1984 Equal Access Act (20 U.S. Code § 4071 – “Denial of equal access prohibited”) guarantees that the club is protected and may not be banned. Even the US Department of Education (2023, and still posted) has cited the Equal Access Act as foundational to GSAs’ legality.

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To: Pol-92064

True, gays can still be prosecuted for sex in a public
place despite the USSC decision (Lawrence v. Texas 2003).

The Court ruled that states cannot criminalize private, consensual sexual conduct
between adults, but specifically noted this does not apply to public sexual acts.


Yet, that does not prevent them from installing gay clubs in schools.


21 posted on 05/06/2026 10:28:56 AM PDT by Liz (Jonathan Swift: Govrnment without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery .)
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To: Pol-92064
SCOTUS ruled that the two Texas gay men engaged in sodomy were in a private home, so they couldn’t be prosecuted.

That's what they ruled, but that is not the case according to the Texas statute.

According to anti-sodomy law:

Sec. 21.06. HOMOSEXUAL CONDUCT. (a) A person commits an offense if he engages in deviate sexual intercourse with another individual of the same sex.

(b) An offense under this section is a Class C misdemeanor.

22 posted on 05/06/2026 10:32:47 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: fwdude

Reagan was in Hollywood. He knew all about that nonsense. He should’ve veto the bill immediately, knowing what was to come.


23 posted on 05/06/2026 10:44:39 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: fwdude

I can remember when the message was just, “don’t beat up on gays.” Now it’s, “You must hand them your children and then bow.”


24 posted on 05/06/2026 11:08:54 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: Liz

How the media helps the wrong on everything.

America’s legacy media is a cancer on our society, most especially CNN, MS NOW, NPR, PBS, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Some of their customers don’t use and excuse violence against us because we are Nazis. They call us Nazis so they can excuse and use violence against us / Rasmussen polling .


25 posted on 05/06/2026 11:37:31 AM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: fwdude
From the article:
Schools have been regularly threatened with severe lawsuits for violating the 1984 Act. Since the early 2000s, that tactic has been used successfully against conservative school districts across the country. And the courts have usually agreed – though it’s generally been the result of shrewd judge-shopping by the plaintiffs and unsophisticated or incompetent school district attorneys handling the cases.

26 posted on 05/06/2026 2:01:03 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens. --DJT)
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To: fwdude

They couldnt let boys have a boys only group,though.


27 posted on 05/06/2026 3:30:24 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: napscoordinator; Vaduz
Yes, 20 U.S. Code § 4071 (the Equal Access Act) was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on August 11, 1984. It prohibits public secondary schools receiving federal funds from denying equal access to student groups based on religious, political, or philosophical content.

Another RF chicken/egg impact on our Peace and Tranquility inclinations as defined in our Constitution; a Constitution that requires from US a peaceful political resistance to the underhanded but court supported Left thus leaving US at the courts mercy if/when the democrats/RINO's resume power.

From https://resource.rockarch.org/story/rockefeller-foundation-history-origins-to-2013/

Gender, Diversity and Equity.

Beginning with the 1972 appointment of its first female trustee, Mathilde Krim, (the wikipedia link is not part of RF's story) the Foundation focused more overtly on women’s issues, particularly the special problems affecting single female heads of household. It appointed a cross-divisional President’s Task Force on Women’s Programming in 1981.

But the Foundation concluded that integrating rather than separating women’s issues was more in keeping with its long tradition of tackling the full complexity of any problem. As then-President Lyman explained, this did not mean that the RF viewed gender inequity as a minor issue:

The Rockefeller Foundation does not pretend to be neutral on the questions of gender role or the exploitation and oppression of women. What we do seek is to operate on the basis of knowledge rather than stereotypes. Getting past the heat and into the light on gender issues is itself a worthwhile goal for a foundation. Most of our work is still in progress, but we have been able to demonstrate, for example, that it simply is not true that women are not interested in issues such as national security or that girls ‘naturally’ shun the quantitative sciences.

Rockefeller Foundation Annual Report, 1984 Show Citation 27X

The Rockefeller Foundation, Annual Report 1984 (New York: The Rockefeller Foundation, 1984) 6.

Rather than establish a separate program dedicated to women’s issues, the RF chose instead to tackle gender inequity within each of its existing programs. A major initiative of the 1980s was a six-year demonstration program that trained women heads of household for employment in four cities. Similarly, the key role women play as small-holder farmers in Africa permeated AGRA’s work in the 2000s.

Investing in Community-based Organizations

There were other reasons for Foundation leadership to be concerned with the concept of “leverage.” When the Rockefeller Foundation was founded in 1913, it was one of a mere handful of large-scale philanthropies. By 1982, there were over 22,000 foundations in the United States. Yet these foundations (and their governmental and international counterparts) still struggled to eradicate poverty, hunger, and poor health.

In the United States in the 1980s, as the Reagan administration signaled significant federal budget cuts, the RF pondered its most effective role in a complicated context. For the RF, especially, its historical contributions encouraged high expectations. As then-president Lyman explained in 1982:

To most people, names like Rockefeller, Carnegie, Ford, and Mellon connote money, lots of it… Not only are the foundations’ resources wholly inadequate to assume the burdens of the modern welfare state, or even a substantially reduced version thereof, but to look to them for this purpose is to misread their role in American life. That role is not a simple one, given the diversity of foundations as to size, stated aims, and methods of operation.

Rockefeller Foundation Annual Report, 1982 Show Citation 28

In re-examining its role, the RF began to look to a different kind of grantee. In earlier decades, the foundation had generally channeled its funds through large, established institutions, from university research laboratories to international organizations like the Red Cross. The 1980s and 1990s introduced smaller community-based organizations that worked directly to help the poor gain access to essential goods, services, and economic opportunities. The RF began to support and collaborate within this arena, particularly when it came to issues of urban poverty.

As it had with gender, the RF took an integrated approach to the root causes underlying racial inequity, focusing once again on cities. It connected and collaborated with community-based organizations and sought to improve public schools, access to resources, and employment opportunities. In the late 1980s, the Foundation retooled its ongoing Equal Opportunity (EO) program to examine persistent urban poverty. Based on studies it conducted, the Foundation identified school reform as the root cause that might effect the largest social change. By 1999, it phased out a general EO program in favor of the Working Communities initiative, which aimed to revitalize urban neighborhoods on multiple levels.

The Global and Urban Turn

Rockefeller Foundation work had always been international in scope. In the 1990s, the Foundation began to envision its work as not only international but global, recognizing the interconnectedness of economies, markets, environmental factors, technology-driven communication, and populations. While once it might have been described as an American philanthropy working internationally, its leaders came to conceive of it as a “truly global foundation,” dropping distinctions between international and domestic programs.

At the same time, Foundation staff recognized a global population shift toward cities. They crafted approaches to address urbanization’s interconnected web of poverty, race, gender, education and economics, as well as to city planning and environmental resilience. The complexity of urban concerns — not to mention global social, economic, and environmental problems — required the Foundation to work at a systems level, from multinational to local...

28 posted on 05/06/2026 4:39:04 PM PDT by MurrietaMadman (The Gates of hell shall not prevail against you)
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To: MurrietaMadman

The Foundation began to envision its work as not only international but global.
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One world order comes in many names all for one until it happens then the blood letting get worse only one is to own that title.


29 posted on 05/07/2026 6:22:16 AM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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