Gay/Straight Alliance called a sex-based club and banned by school

[cynatnite]

Sex-based clubs — including the Gay/Straight Alliance at South Rowan High School — are now banned in the Rowan-Salisbury School System.

Without comment, the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education voted unanimously Monday night to approve an amendment to the school's extracurricular activities policy banning sex-based student clubs.

Board member Jim Shuping read aloud the complete text of the amendment. The policy uses the system's existing abstinence-only sex education policy as the basis for the ban.

In April, the board agreed to ban clubs such as the Gay/ Straight Alliance, voting to instruct the staff and attorneys to develop a policy.

The club at South Rowan, which sparked the controversy, had continued to function through the end of the school year.

The board waived its usual requirement of two readings for policy adoptions, allowing the policy to be in effect when school opens next week.

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[zbdent]

1. There's a joke somewhere here about the Boy Scouts and

"circle-jerks" ...

[azurnoir]

2. WTF planet do these folks live on?

I have a daughter who was in GSA for several years, when people would ask her the obvious question she would simply repete the name v e r y s l o w l y in case they didn't get it.

[gator_in_Ontario]

3. I get so tired

of the "gay=sex" analogy. :eyes:
It ain't all about that.....