Judge OK’s Student Gay Rights Club
A federal judge has ruled that Florida's Okeechobee High School must grant the same privileges to the Gay-Straight Alliance that it grants to other student clubs.TRUTHDIG’S JOURNALISM REMAINS CLEARAP via Yahoo:
U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore ruled Friday that Okeechobee High School must grant the same privileges to the Gay-Straight Alliance that it grants other clubs, as mandated by the federal Equal Access Act.
The American Civil Liberties Union sued the Okeechobee school board in November on behalf of the high school’s Gay-Straight Alliance after school officials said the group was a “sex-based” organization that would violate its abstinence-only education policy.
In his 12-page ruling, Moore wrote that the group and its founder, high school senior Yasmin Gonzalez, have “demonstrated a substantial likelihood of success” on their claim that the school violated federal law when it prohibited the club from meeting.
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