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HB 1017 No LGBT School Clubs

Zedler

TAGS: schools, freedom to assemble, lgbt

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by MEGABITE on Feb 1, 2007 11:29:01

Kids shouldn't be secretly joining homosexual school clubs without their parents knowing, IMO.

Poor legislature

by karltm on Feb 13, 2007 8:46:28

Yeah megabite, instead they should be getting beat at home for coming out to their parents without any support network. This bill is shortsighted and not needed. Where does the banning of organizations end? Should we allow schools to ban farm clubs because vegans don't approve of children handling animals? It's just silly.

Getting beat? Did you just make that up?

by MEGABITE on Feb 13, 2007 11:08:02

No secret school clubs, karl.

First Amendment violation

by davidsmith on Feb 27, 2007 17:58:09

The section restricting clubs to only talking about topics that meet with the Legislature's approval has already been declared unconstitutional. That's what triggered the school district in (what was it, Utah?) to ban all after school programs rather than allow gays the ability to assemble. The best way to kill it is for the ACLU to show up with an alternate fiscal note showing their estimated legal costs. Oooh, that would be fun to watch.

by MEGABITE on Feb 28, 2007 6:59:44

Why can't they just start their own non school-affiliated club? Oh that would just make too much sense, nevermind. Abd BTW, not everybody bows down to aclu threats.

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Summary

Prohibits clubs which present information outside the school sex curriculum or about sexual activity outside of marriage as recognized in Texas law. Also prohibits clubs which which encourage criminal or delinquent conduct or promote bigotry. Requires schools to required students get a signed permission slip to join all school clubs.

Background

A Gay-Straight Alliance club at a Houston high school led to controversy in 2003. The school district attempted to block the formation of the club but lost a suit brought by a student./1/ This law would attempt to give opponents another tool to block the formation of such clubs in Texas schools.