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Originally Posted by Robin
...students should be able to organize any sort of club that does not promote illegal behavior...
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Anything goes as long as it is legal? Are you sure that's the standard? You're setting the bar pretty low.
How about a we like to masturbate while thinking about teacher club?
Should the "I like to eat my own feces club" have a faculty advisor? They could promote tolerance between the kids who eat their own turds and the kids who don't eat their own turds.
What about a neo-nazi group who believe that the world will be a much better place if everybody would just accept that whites are a superior race and should rule the world?
Just because it is legal doesn't mean it is right or that it should be in our schools.
The legal standard wont work. The law isn't the high mark it is the absolute minimum we will accept. The idea is to create an enviroment where children can learn.
Does having a thousand special interest/political activist groups on campus really lend itself to that goal?
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Originally Posted by Robin
GSA's all over the country have proven their significance in numbers
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Significant? So what? What does the fact that it is a significant group have to do with whether or not it has a place in public schools?
Many groups have proven their significance thru numbers. That doesn't make them appropriate.
Hell... The KKK is a hugely significant group. Does that doesn't grant them a place at Springville HS?
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Originally Posted by Robin
What about tolerant behavior toward gay people do you not accept?
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Nice line... That's like when Snipe asks people "What is it about freedom that you hate?"
Try to villanize me but the truth is that I'm just not buying your line of crap.
Is it tolerance that the GSA is really after? Do they want to be tolerated or accepted? How do the kids in the GSA feel about the right wing nut jobs who think they're all going to hell? Do they feel like they should have a place in the school?
Get right down to the bare bones. The GSA and other groups like it want people to accept homosexuality as a natural and appropriate behavior. They are intolerant of my belief that what they are doing is sick and wrong.
Now tell me how "closed minded" I am because I don't see it your way.