Experts Question Legality of High School for Gays (Another Update)

FoxNews ^ | 08/19/03 | C. Spencer Beggs

[bedolido]

NEW YORK

[.cnI redruM]

I'd love it if someone pulled the plug on Queer Eye High. Anyone with the nuts to sue on this one deserves a Medal of Valor.

[jwalburg]

On the other hand, Goldberg said, separating gay students can be legally justified in the same way that special-education classes, gifted classes and before-school prayer groups are justified.

Yeah, just like before-school prayer groups.

[nothingnew]

"Ironically, because [gays] don’t have equal protection under the Constitution, there's nothing wrong [with] segregating them legally, particularly if they're doing it voluntarily," Goldberg said.

Big part of the push for this one folks. You want to stop the school, you're going to have to give them equal protection, something they been demanding all along.

FMCDH

[EdReform]

"I thought it was a joke when I first read it," Krista Kafer, senior education analyst at The Heritage Foundation (search), said of the New York City high school. "It seems like an unfortunate and controversial use of taxpayer money. I would have no issue with it if it were a private school."

Yeah, maybe the homosexual community could take some of the money they've been using to fund the campaign to undermine the Church, marriage, the public schools, and the Boy Scouts and pay for their own private school.

[EdReform]

"Sarah Strauss, a doctoral candidate at Columbia Teachers College who is studying the needs of gay students, said projects like Harvey Milk are desperately needed to address problems such as bullying, as well as the high dropout and suicide rate among gay kids.

Jonathan Plucker, director of the Indiana Education Policy Center at Indiana University, said that not enough research has been done to justify the Harvey Milk program.

"Coming at it from a research perspective, I'm a little perplexed about where the research is that says, 'This is a good idea,'" he said."

It will be interesting to see what the GLSEN propaganda machine will have to say.

[wideawake]

Yeah, just like before-school prayer groups.

This is so obviously factually incorrect that it makes the bias of the author glaringly obvious.

There is no legal comparison between voluntary activity groups using the facilities that their families' taxes pay for and state-mandated "tracking" of students.

And of course, there is no legal comparison between "tracking" students within a school based on standardized test scores and segregating students into a separate school building based on a supposed predilection for sodomy.

[randog]

I've read many surveys that say that gays are better educated than the rest of the population. That seems to suggest that they aren't having many problems in school.

[Bryan]

The real purpose of this school is not to protect them, but to indoctrinate them -- without being seen by heterosexual students, or anyone else.

If you think Fistgate was bad ...

[batter]

Ironically, because [gays] don’t have equal protection under the Constitution, there's nothing wrong [with] segregating them legally, particularly if they're doing it voluntarily...

So, that means hetero-only schools may also be established in the NYC area?...Gee, I bet the ACLU would encourage that.

[EdReform]

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[First Amendment]

The real purpose of this school is not to protect them, but to indoctrinate them -- without being seen by heterosexual students, or anyone else.

You are right. Note the "questioning" students. This is sick.

"In the short term, at least the Harvey Milk school serves a pressing need for certain kids, but there are other gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and questioning students in public schools in New York," Strauss said. "I think the next step is for the state to pass a law to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation."