SC School Begrudgingly Allows Gay Club

[WillParkinson]

(Irmo, South Carolina) A high school whose principal announced he would resign rather than allow a gay student club to meet on campus will gets its club after all.

Irmo High School principal Eddie Walker said last month he would quit at the end of the next school year because the group conflicts with his beliefs and religious convictions.

The resignation announcement sparked a fury of controversy in the community and led to demands by parents that the Gay-Straight Alliance be officially barred from organizing.

Faced with the threat of a lawsuit in support of the gay students the Lexington-Richland School District 5 school board considered a proposal to ban all extra-curricular clubs.

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon08/06/062408school.htm

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1. I hope this group flourishes. The kids will lead the way to LGBT acceptance. nt

[Flarney]

2. Holy crap, Irmo High is 3 miles away from where I live! That's awesome.

Signs of progress seem too few and far between here in the heart of South Carolina. I must not pay enough attention to local news because this is the first I've heard of this "controversy." I pay taxes in this school district...I wonder if there's any way I can support them...

[dsc]

4. yes

You can give money directly to that club via the high school and it is tax deductible.

[msongs]

3. good riddance to religious bigot principals who want to impose their religions on EVERYone nt

[Smarmie Doofus]

5. Then we should begrudgingly allow it to continue to receive federal funding.

These kids in backwater Dixie states that start these GSA clubs astonish me. Some kind of rare breed. HS is brutal enough... the constant need for social acceptance ( i.e. FITTING IN) plus the added pressure of grades, getting into college, etc. etc.

That they have the *crust* to take on this added burden... on *principle*... in the kind of hostile environment described, boggles the mind.

They're a lot braver than I was.