Out on a Limb - School District Pays $250k to keep Gay Student Club Banned

[Roland99]

http://www.csindy.com/csindy/current/cover.html

Also among the graduating seniors and the crowd in the stands were plaintiffs in an ongoing lawsuit against D-11, accusing their school district of violating the federal Equal Access Act of 1984 for its continuing refusal to allow a Gay-Straight Alliance as an official club.

Over the past six years, students have petitioned three different Palmer principals, seeking recognition of a Gay-Straight Alliance that would, if approved, become just one of some 3,000 such sanctioned clubs across the United States, including 50 in school districts across Colorado.

The clubs are designed to provide forums and a support network for gay and straight students alike. Palmer's club, as envisioned by its founders, would be a place for guest speakers, discussions and civic involvement.

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Neither have district officials explained their willingness to commit so many taxpayer resources -- $250,000 in legal fees alone so far -- trying to block the GSA in court. They have refused to disclose their efforts to involve Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family or the Alliance Defense Fund, a right-wing law firm that Focus CEO James Dobson helped found 11 years ago, in the litigation.

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[bryant69]

1. If only we had money for textbooks that told how the vietnam war ended

Oh well. Lets send off anther check to the anti gay attorneys.

Bryant
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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Wonder how many taxpayers in that district are aware of this

I could see mounting a publicity campaign, showing how that money could better have been spent, and explaining what the Gay-Straight Alliance is about. Bet a lot of people would go to School Board meetings about this matter.

[pie]

3. No amount of tax money is too great to propagate their hatred!

Where did our country go?

[Ian David]

4. The fundies spent over $300 million against gay marriage in Massachusetts

I wonder how many Catholic parishes they could have kept from closing with that money?

How many homeless people could have been fed?

How many abortions could have been prevented?

How many Tsunami victims could have been aided?

Stupid asses.

[beyurslf]

5. YOu would think the members of other clubs that have now been closed

would join the fight. The only way this is legal is to close all other student clubs on campus, which this school did at all 5 of its high schools.

[Juice45]

6. Dont cha love when...

our tax dollars go towards bigotry?

[beyurslf]

10. Bigotry... unjust wars.... lying to the country....At least it isn't being

spent to defend sex in the white house.

[Juice45]

11. "GOP puts constitutional ban on oral sex in the White House"- n/t

[kentuck]

7. My wife was on D-11 school board when this issue first appeared..

Very controversai.

[Juice45]

8. Did a majority

of the board go with it? what were those meetings like i wonder...

[Smarmie Doofus]

9. Grrrr..... What get's me is the damage these school boards...

.... do to *children*.