2 FL students challenge school's gay c

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Fri, 03-06-2009 - 12:23pm
Amazing.  My DD's former HS had a Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered & Straight Alliance!  Never a problem here.
2 Fla. students challenge school's gay club ruling
By RON WORD
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- An attorney for two gay students at a north Florida high school told a federal judge Thursday they should be allowed to form a campus club promoting tolerance toward gays, despite a school prohibition.


But a lawyer for the Nassau County School Board said the group's name, Gay-Straight Alliance, is against school policy.



ACLU Attorney Robert F. Rosenwald Jr. argued that Page and Brock had been the target of anti-gay epithets and threats of violence at school and wanted to start the Gay-Straight Alliance to open a discourse among students.


Attorney Frank Sheppard, who represents the school board, said the district's main complaint is the name of the group, saying it does not approve of groups dealing with sexual orientation and noted the school has an abstinence-based sex education curriculum.


"If they change the name and comply with Nassau County School Board policies they can meet," he said.


The judge questioned Sheppard over the school's objection to the name.


"A Gay-Straight Alliance, that covers everybody doesn't it?" Adams asked.



Rosenwald noted that the Fellowship of Christian Athletes meets on campus. He told the judge that an FCA booklet includes references to sexual issues, including a student pledge to remain sexually pure and an article about dealing with homosexuality in the locker room.



 


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Fri, 03-06-2009 - 12:49pm
Sort if scary that people in charge of childrens "education" don't know the difference between sex and sexual orientation.


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Fri, 03-06-2009 - 1:42pm
Yes :S
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Fri, 03-06-2009 - 8:43pm

No kidding.