Posted on 04/11/2006 1:17:20 PM PDT by Between the Lines
The Rowan-Salisbury School Board denied permission Monday night for the Gay-Straight Alliance to form a club at South Rowan High School.
The decision came in a meeting that drew more than 100 spectators at the board office in Salisbury. Television video taped at the meeting showed much of the crowd erupting into cheers after the board made its unanimous decision.
A large group of people held a rally outside the board offices Monday evening, voicing opposition to formation of the club.
According to its national Web site, the Gay-Straight Alliance serves to help members create a school environment in which all students and staff feel safe, regardless of their sexual orientation.
The issue had come before the school board at its March 27 meeting, and the board had decided to delay a decision and get more information about the club.
During the March 27 meeting, board member Jim Shuping told fellow members that he had received a number of complaints from parents about the club. Several board members also said they were concerned that the club could become a distraction at South Rowan High.
According to a recent publication by the National Education Association and several other organizations, the Equal Access Act of 1984 allows organizations such as the Gay-Straight Alliance the right to form and meet at schools -- provided school systems permit other clubs to do the same.
In a number of cases, including Kentucky and Utah, federal courts have supported the right of students to form clubs such as the Gay-Straight Alliance..
Several Charlotte-Mecklenburg high schools have similar clubs, which operate the same as other extracurricular clubs and organizations.
If all these weird clubs were permitted.....they would eventually be asked to approve the 'boy love' club that Google plays host to as we speak!
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49680
Of course.
Juries have the responsibility to judge the validity of the law as well as its application. The jury is the final check against an overreaching government.
The vote was to ban sexually-oriented clubs in Rowan-Salisbury schools.
I wonder if this includes groups like the Boy Scouts.
we have it at our school. it doesn't turn straights into gays I'm pretty sure. LOL. hetero boys and girls will tend to stay that way.
Only if they allow other sexually oriented clubs to meet there. Denying all equally is equality.
and by that I mean the healthy biases haven't disappeared regardless of how hard the Xmen try.
Get with the program. Reality is irrelevant. Perception is everything. /s
Again...if the school board was the defendant in the case, it WOULD NEVER BE A JURY TRIAL...THE PLAINTIFF'S WOULD CHOOSE A BENCH!!!!
A booger joke. Ha Ha! You said booger!
Really! In all the talk about safety and bullying, the assumption always seems to be that all offenses are aimed at only one group. The truth is, kids are imperfect creatures who tease each other, and sometimes cross a bigger line and hit each other. The reasons are quite varied. I wouldn't think perceived homosexuality was even the number one reason. Certainly Christians get teased and bullied. Since no one is perfectible, and since the government forces attendance,and since there seems to be wide disagreement on the core issues, I think the path of least interference is the best. Kids will be kids. When the offense is words, let the kids sort it out. Teach them to take it and to fight back with words. If the offense is physical, adults must intervene. No hitting for any reason should do it. Words should not disrupt, but you can't play the role of telling kids what to think on issues that are this sensitive, especially when moral relativism rules the day. Let them work it out themselves. If a kid is having big problems, deal with that specific situation. Don't design curriculum, or allow immoral themed clubs, around one specific thing, especially when that thing is of grave moral consequence.
School is not group therapy. Specific problems should have individual solutions. You don't burn down your house because you have a leaky faucet. You address only the problem, only where the problem exists.
Restated, the thing is that these gay acceptance pushers frame every problem as though there is one side -- the gay side. They never ask whether making the homosexual feel good about his gayness will have any kind of negative effect on anyone else. It is so one-sided. Where are the studies about the moral and emotional effect on kids who have to sit through this group sex therapy? You know, the ones that were living normal, moral lives before school became all about sex.
I wonder if this includes groups like the Boy Scouts.
The Boy Scouts, unlike the homo-clubs, is not a group which focuses on (I would say obsesses over) its members' sexual orientation.
Which "clearly established federal law" do you refer to?
No, because the Gay/Straight Alliance is a political organization, and you can't stop any political organization as long as it "does not materially and substantially interfere with the orderly conduct of educational activities within the school." Now maybe you could persuade a jury that the club's existence is disruptive, but I wouldn't count on it.
See #34. Federal Equal Accesss Act of 1984. 1984-AUG-11.
Shh! Listen! I hear the frantic footsteps of the ACLU!
The fact that they exclude gay scout masters would argue otherwise.
Yay, Big Brother telling kids what to think! (claps hands in unison with other fundie busybodies).
Then the people need to get involved and put this stuff, via the courts to them. It's either our country or not.
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