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Georgia Office Seeker Blasts Ruling Favoring High School Gay-Straight Club
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| News Date | Thursday, August 3, 2006 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A federal judge recently issued a ruling requiring White County High School in Cleveland, Georgia, to allow students in the Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) club "Pride" to meet on campus. However, the Republican nominee for attorney general in that state says he would like to see homosexuality-affirming student clubs banned from the state's schools.
McGuire, a former corporate attorney and one-time state senator, feels the court's ruling in this case has turned the Equal Access Act on its head. "I think the problem here, and I think where the court substantially erred, is that the intent of the Act was never to allow organizations that advocate illegal activity [to have campus access]," he says. "And in Georgia, sex between minors is illegal; statutory rape laws apply."
GSAs and their ilk should be denied access to school campuses, the AG candidate says, because they promote activities that are against the law. Allowing such groups is "much like allowing a pedophile club or a gambling club to meet at school," he contends.
"So there really should be no clubs permitted in school, period, that deal with illegal activity," McGuire continues. "Homosexual activist clubs in schools are detrimental to students and to the moral well-being of society," he asserts. |
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