No Student Clubs, No Lawsuits ... No Problem (ACLU pushes homosexual agenda)

AgapePress ^ | 1/14/03 | By Jim Brown

[Buffalo Bob]

The Boyd County School Board in Kentucky has banned all student clubs in the district. That action comes after the American Civil Liberties Union threatened to sue the board if it did not allow a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) group to meet on a high school campus.

Christian attorney Scott Lively of the Sacramento-based Pro-Family Law Center had advised Boyd County High School officials to adopt a pro-civility curriculum that addresses issues such as bullying, but also teaches that homosexuality is wrong. If that step were taken, the GSA would have been classified as a curricular club and lose its protection under the Equal Access Act, thus allowing the school to regulate the pro-homosexual group.

But Lively says the community would rather have no clubs at all on campus than have a homosexual club. He explains why the district might consider that arrangement an advantage.

"The additional benefit for the school board, by not having any clubs, is that they don't have to deal with lawsuits from the ACLU," Lively says. "Our strategy of going forward with this curriculum [is] a novel legal strategy that potentially would be challenged by the left. I believe it would prevail in court and set a model for the whole nation to follow, but nevertheless this school board is trying to protect its budget."

Lively explains that school officials had few options. "The only way that's been proven to succeed in stopping the GSA clubs is to ban all clubs," he says. "That's the proven method, and there's the least legal exposure for doing that."

Lively is hopeful that next school year, Boyd County will adopt a pro-civility curriculum and reinstate all its student clubs -- except the GSA and other curricular clubs. In the meantime, a church across the street from the high school has offered to host the school's Bible Club at its facilities.

[Buffalo Bob]

The ACLU is at the forefront of the New Butt Order® (NBO)

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[John Jorsett]

I wonder how the ACLU would like to see "Junior NAMBLA" and "Aryan Nation" groups?

[cake_crumb]

"The only way that's been proven to succeed in stopping the GSA clubs is to ban all clubs," he says. "That's the proven method, and there's the least legal exposure for doing that."

We need to disband the ACLU.

[cake_crumb]

"I wonder how the ACLU would like to see 'Junior NAMBLA' and 'Aryan Nation' groups?"

NAMBLA yes. Aryan Nations, no. In the PC world, racism is bad (unless it's race race EXPLOITATION by Democrats) Exploitation of children is fine.

[Mark was here]

School Houses not Club Houses!

Great idea!

Added benefit - over worked teachers will be less overworked.

[Coleus]

NBO, that's a good one.

[Mark was here]

I think clubs should be joined for the sake of what the club is about, not to pad a resume.

Some one cant pad their resume... what a tragedy...at least the taxpayers are spared from padding the wallets of a bunch of lawyers.

[realistic]

Why can't they join a club? They just can't meet on the school grounds. If the students want a club, meet somewhere else. I don't believe clubs, even on college applications, require administrative endorsement. Also I believe there's a hugh differrence between academic clubs and 'life-style' gatherings.

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[MikeJ75]

An article at http://www.insidedenver.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_1656401,00.html describes a situation in a Colorado school where the shoe is on the other foot.

The Colorado school allows a gay/straight alliance but refuses to allow a Bible club. The ACLJ (that's a "J" on the end, not a "U") is suing on behalf of the students who want the Bible club. The school will probably concede the issue to avoid legal costs, but the school could decide to ban all clubs, as did the Kentucky school.

The federal Equal Access Act, is unambiguous. If a public school allows any (even one) noncurricular clubs, then it must allow all noncurricular clubs. The act specifically lists religious content as an impermissible reason to disallow a club.

What is the Colorado school afraid of? Does the school superintendent believe that a Bible club will detract from membership in the gay/straight alliance? If both clubs exist in the same school, will the message of one overpower the message of the other?