What the fuck is wrong with Florida?

[sor_bet]

Read the down near the end, about the very specific state law, and then tell me, what century are Floridians living in? I guess I shouldn't expect better from a state that keeps electing Jeb Bush. An article I ran across over at Netscape, from the Gay & Lesbian news pages, and I'll copy and paste the text below in addition to the link above,

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[mnemosyne_1]

I... just.... *dumbfounded*

[sor_bet]

Seriously. There's just no words.

[yesido]

Woah... that's --just disgusting. I bet the students will win. I always wonder about the way schools have hard times with GSA groups but sanction bible study groups--I mean, shouldn't our tax dollars be not going to have teachers read bibles with students? The students at the Florida school sound amazing, though.

My freshman year of high school (class of 03, I think, so maybe... 1998 or 9 or something? Not so good with the maths, me) we had a GSA group, but only in secret. The teacher who ran it cautioned us constantly, "This isn't sanctioned, please be careful who you tell, my job is on the line." A year or two later a legitimate, school-sanctioned GSA was formed, but still, it was wierd. Cool of that first teacher, though.

[sor_bet]

I'm not sure the students will win, unless they can get that law struck down, which it should be, because, jesus, tell people how to live much?

You were class of '03? I can't process that number as a graduation year. Just...no.

I could see that teacher getting in more trouble for holding secret meetings than if he/she had tried to have them publicly. It's one thing to try to start a GSA and fail and get fired, it's another thing to have someone claim that a teacher is talking to underage kids about sex and keeping it a secret -- seems like that could land the teacher in jail, not just out of work. Very scary, and he/she had a lot of guts to help you out like that.