Judge rules against gay students in Lubbock

[David__77]

LUBBOCK - A federal judge today ruled against a group of gay high school students who sued the Lubbock school district after they were prohibited from meeting on campus.

The Lubbock Gay Straight Alliance claimed in its July lawsuit that the district violated students' constitutional rights and a law forbidding discrimination against groups meeting on campuses of schools receiving federal funds.

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He found that the decision not to allow the group to meet on campus 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 found that the decision not to allow the group to meet on campus 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."

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2431689

(This judge is a rogue Reagan appointee. This issue has been decided again and again--districts cannot block access to these groups. I guess it will have to go to the Supreme Court. They will rule that gay student groups must be allowed. The law is called the Equal Access Act and the Christian right pushed it so that Christian student groups would have access to campuses. It also applies to gay student groups.)

[baby_bear]

1. He must be one of those "activist judges"

You know, the ones the Republicans say assert their own agendas instead depending upon rule and law...

s_m

[David__77]

2. This is extreme "activism" if there ever were such a thing.

This is blatantly against the law. While the judges the right is complaining about sometimes throw out statutory law they interpret as infringing on rights protected by the constitution, this judge is RESTRICTING rights on the basis of so-called "community standards" when there is no provision in law--statutory or otherwise--to do so.

[arcane1]

3. "legislating from the bench" as the Chimp likes to say

but it's ok with him when it's against gays :puke:

[Dogmudgeon]

4. How you can tell

Cheap irony.

Poke-in-the-eye tactics.

All in the name of Jeebus!

--bkl

[Mari333]

5. The ACLU will be all over this , the students have a cut and dry case

and the judge will be humiliated as he should be.

[ninkasi]

7. He's probably not capable

of realizing how wrong he is, but I hope he has to learn. And Mari, I pray daily for your family and your stepson, and all the other innocent victims of this illegal war.

[TopesJunkie]

6. Now that's an ACTIVIST JUDGE!

See, George. Here's a real activist. Whaddya gonna do about it?

[sonias]

8. Damn s.o.b. judge!

May you rot in hell you piece of crap. With all the discrimination these kids already face to call them "obscene and inappropriate" is unconscionable. You intolerant, ignorant, back asswards bastard!

This is Texas of course and he is a friggin repuke, what did we expect?

Sonia

[Zhade]

10. Indeed. OBSCENE?

I'll tell you what's obscene - using one's position as a judge to legislate morality from the bench, with no legal right to do so, while perverting one's Constitutional oath by restricting freedom of association.

THAT'S what's obscene!

[Vas Liz]

9. No worry

Just wait for the appeal.