Judge Rules Against Gay High School Students

[rodbarnett]

Who Wanted to Meet on Campus in Texas

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - A judge has ruled that a group of gay high school students cannot meet on campus, saying parents and school officials should determine what subject matter is allowed at school.
The Lubbock Gay Straight Alliance claimed in a July lawsuit that the school district violated students' constitutional rights and federal law by refusing the group's requests to meet at a high school in 2002.

Judge Sam R. Cummings said his ruling is "an assertion of a school's right not to surrender control of the public school system to students and erode a community's standard of what subject matter is considered obscene and inappropriate."

He said the district's policy banning discussion of sex or sex acts differentiated it from six similar cases in Utah, California, Indiana and Kentucky that sided with similar groups.

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Lubbock school board president Mark Griffin said the decision "accurately reflects the community perspective as a whole."

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA1Y3YUERD.html

comment : difference being located in texas

[Davis_X_Machina]

1. They all must...

...sit around in stony silence in Monday morning homerooms all over Lubbock if 'discussion of sex or sex acts' is banned.

I mean, football is over, and the prom is months away.

What are they doing, factoring polynomials?

[saigon68]

2. factoring polynomials

I doubt these cretins have the ability to pull that off.

[megatherium]

7. I wonder if they teach evolution there.

They certainly don't a f***ing clue about academic freedom. Bigoted morons.

[renegade000]

8. i wouldn't even give them algebra at all...

[SoDesuKa]

3. Community Standards

We're talking about Lubbock Texas, after all. This is not exactly the hub of the world.

[Bill McBlueState]

4. "sex or sex acts"

This falls in line nicely with the homophobes' thinking. What could gay students possibly talk about besides sex?

Geez... as if a Gay Straight Alliance is nothing more than a how-to seminar for gay sex. These rightwingers' minds are in the gutter.

[BiggJawn]

5. So now they can't teach Abstinence?

That concerns "Sex Acts", or more exactly, how to avoid same.

Fuckin' "Activist" Judges....

Judge CUMMINGS.....LOL!

[Sabriel]

6. Cognitive dissonance moment

At the same time I'm asking my secondary and elementary ed students to consider starting GSAs in their schools and to include GLBT students in their curriculum, their government is giving them the opposite message. It's a tad difficult to promote the idea of safe, democratic classrooms, when my own government doesn't support it.