Anti-Gay School Plan Approved By Georgia House

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/02/021506gaSchool.htm

The Georgia House voted 143 - 25 on Wednesday to approve a bill that requires students to notify parents before joining school clubs. It also allows parents to block their children from joining clubs they don't approve.

The measure does not specifically name LGBT clubs, but its intent is clear say LGBT activists in the state.

"It's our obligation to the stockholders in this state, in the school system, that they should know what's going on with their children," said state Rep. Bobby Reese (R-Sugar Hill).

A similar bill is in committee in the Senate and likely to be approved.

[niyad]

1. do these people get stupider by the day, or does it just seem that way?

STOCKHOLDERS in the state? what happened to "citizens"? is this an unintentional reference to corporate-controlled america?

[Glorfindel]

2. I used to be so proud of being a Georgian...

now I never mention the subject. It's so embarrassing to see the state that produced Martin Luther King and Jimmy Carter descend into ignorance and hatred. And it's a DELIBERATE CHOICE - Georgia was once the most progressive and enlightened southern state, proudly "too busy to hate," and spared the wrenching battles over civil rights that rocked Alabama, Mississippi, Lousiana, et al. I live in Mississippi now, and say what you will about the Magnolia State, it has nowhere to go but up.

[saltpoint]

3. I wouldn't be very surprised at all if next week the Georgia House

reinstitutes slavery.

What a regressive bunch of jerks running the show in Georgia. Perdue, Reed, Chambliss, etc. Yuck yuck yuck.

[TaleWgnDg]

4. As the South drifts farther and farther away from the 20th

.
As the South drifts farther and farther away from the 20th and 21st centuries in its rightwingnut reactionary ideals thereby miring themselves in religion-in-law/state, I wonder how long will it take? That is, to undo all this crap? Then I muse that America has paid many times over for its isolation from the progressiveness of Europe caused by the Atlantic Ocean . . . our ocean-as-border serves us well in wartime; however, during peacetime that isolationism turns in upon itself.

Georgia is so damn backward but for downtown Atlanta and immediate surrounds!

[bigscott]

5. Northerner here

I travela lot across the nation and have noticed a big change in the attitudes in GA. It used to be fairly tolerant - not accepting of GLBT by any means, but tolerant - especially Atlanta, Savannah and the larger towns. But that has changed. Now it is just as bad as rural Fl, SC or TN
I feel bad for my brothers and sisters in the South

[sui generis]

6. "stockholders?" corporate interest vs. individual?

is that what they mean? In a real corporation you have the option not to be a stockholder. Not so in parenting. If you can't instill your bigoted homophobic views in your kids ALL ON YOUR OWN then why rely on the school to help you?

It's not the vendor's job at a corporation to set corporate policy.

Where do they find these idiots?

[triakis36]

7. That's just hate in the disguise of concern

|Rep. Len Walker (R-Loganville) said things have changed a lot since he was a student.

|"The clubs and organizations in our public schools at that time were honorable and right for kids," he said. "Isn't it a tragedy that we |no longer live in such a state as that?"

I'm sure in his day misogyny and Jim Crow were considered honorable and right for kids too. What a dick! I hate it when people reference the past as if it was better. That's only because America in the recent past was completely white washed.