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Gay-Straight Alliance Club formed at MCHS
School board hears opposition at Tues. night meeting
Sixty-six students at Madison County High School have joined a newly-formed club — the Madison County High School Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA).
Proponents of the club say it’s a support group for gay high schoolers, while opponents say it promotes a harmful lifestyle and has no business in a taxpayer-funded setting.
“We, as an organization, seek to evoke positive change toward a society in which gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people can participate free of negative stereotypes and as fully equal members of society,” states the preamble of the GSA Constitution. “We seek to achieve our aims by promoting awareness of, education about, setting a positive example for, and providing support to the sexual minority community and their allies.”
Superintendent Keith Cowne said the GSA met all school guidelines in forming a club. MCHS’ club signup day was Aug. 26.
“They got 15 signatures and got sponsors and did a Constitution; they did all the things that other clubs have to do,” said Cowne.
While Cowne says acceptance of the club is an equal rights issue, opponents of the GSA said the club promotes a deviant lifestyle and that taxpayer money should not be used for such a cause.
“The cost to the individual and to society is too enormous for us to allow our children to in anyway believe it is O.K. for them to dabble and experiment in this kind of behavior,” said Dee Lee in a letter to the editor in this week’s issue. “It is deadly dangerous. Our elected officials, educators and citizens of Madison County must stand up to whoever is behind the scenes creating this kind of deadly chaos in our county.”
Two school counselors, Angelia Bruce and Carrie Olson, are serving as sponsors for the club.
Contacted Tuesday, Bruce referred questions to MCHS principal Wayne McIntosh, who said the club is not aimed at recruiting students to a gay lifestyle. Instead, he said it’s a “student-initiated” program aimed at helping people with alternative lifestyles feel less ostracized in a high
For the rest of the story see this weeks Madison County Journal.
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