Homo Gay Student Group = KKK
posted by on March 20 at 8:51 AM
So say school administrators in Osseo, Minnesota, which has banned a gay/straight student alliance on the grounds that the groups isn’t “curricular.” Unlike the school’s synchronized swimming and cheerleading groups.
“We need to control who can talk to students and how they can talk to them because we could have groups like the KKK come in then and if we no longer have any right to decide if that is an appropriate curricular or not, that is where we run into trouble,” Osseo District spokesman Pat Brink said.
One federal judge has already sided with the gay group—Straights and Gays for Equality (SAGE)—but the school district is appealing that decision. And, hey, someone needs to let the kids behind SAGE know that that acronym is already taken.
I definitely agree that the KKK should not be allowed to come in and speak to Straights and Gays for Equality. Good to see that the school administrators are capable of making fine distinctions here.
Gay Student Group != KKK except when Gay Student Group = KKK.
My opinion is that the school should accommodate any group, be they SAGE or KKK or IRYFKQJFO. They're probably right, though, that if they do accommodate one extra-curricular group (i.e. SAGE) they'll legally have to accommodate all (e.g. KKK). Because, under the law, SAGE=KKK in such circumstances. What's interesting is the groups they fear. Is the KKK really gonna show up in Osseo HS?
i'm sorry we can't give the the freedom of speech or the freedom of assembly because you might use it.
Orono High School pulled this back in the late nineties.
Orono High School in MN did this in the late nineties. They said our GSA had "too narrow of a focus."
It's also the System Administrators' Guild--the E is silent(?).
I'm glad I'm not a school administrator or any other public official... half the people adore everything you stand for and the other half despise everything you stand for.
Maybe high school should just be run like a police state though... get the kids educated and out of there so they can get on with their real lives and leave the assholes behind.
Just so people understand, MN is 50+% Lutheran, and there are two kinds of Lutherans: Happy Lutherans and Dark Lutherans. Happy Lutherans, including most Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) branches, are the ones you think of when you think of progressive, secular Scandinavian society.
But Dark Lutherans are the insular, Calvanist ("You Are Not OK"), judgemental, reactionary type of Christians. Many Missouri Synod and Wisconsin Synod Lutheran churches are chock full of Dark Lutherans. I had a crush on a woman in college who was a Dark Lutheran. I eventually found out that, despite the fact that she had gone to one of the finest public high schools in MN, she believed public education to be wicked and in fact UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Whereas my Happy Lutheran friends are some of the most liberal people that I know- the only Christians that are more liberal are a few Liberation Catholics and an odd Methodist church here or there.
Anyhow, this Osseo think is the work of Dark Lutherans.
Isit me or is the admin bemoaning the fact he doesn't have the right to have the KKK come talk at his school?
We had an Asian student association and a Christian Athletes association. How are these curricular? I think that a Gay Straight alliance includes everyone gay or straight. Curricular my ass.
Ah, Lutherans. A religion centered entirely around pot lucks and hot dishes.
Some of my husband's extended family would be classified as the dark Lutherans. You're probably right that this is the work of the Dark Lutherans...But I bet they make the BEST mashed potatoes.
@11: Don't forget akvavit!
On a broader note, am I the only one who thinks that some students from the local GSA need to get together and burn an inverted triangle on the district spokesman's lawn?
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