SHS sends wrong message by endorsing GSA Club

The local school board recently met to discus establishment of the "Gay/Straight Alliance" student club at Sandpoint High School. One of the board members saw fit to lavishly endorse this homosexual club from the podium.

The meeting was stacked. Sentiment inside the room ran 10 to 1 in favor of the GSA. Sentiment in the community seems closer to 100 to 1 against.

The number of students who claimed to be homosexual was stunning. Perhaps that alone best demonstrates the danger of allowing our schools to reinforce misdirected sexual urges at a confusing age.

Our kids have to attend school. Now their math and chess clubs have to share space with those who demand a public place to affirm and celebrate their gender-identity disorders.

Yes, it is clear that prevailing law supports the GSA, but that means little in an increasingly Godless and unconstitutional America. Yes, it seems unfair to do away with all other student clubs simply to prohibit this homosexual club. Clearly, the GSA is a done deal and is not going away. Nevertheless, approval of a homosexual organization sends the wrong message to our children.

Is it just coincidence that identical homosexual clubs are being established right now at other high schools this year? Now that we have decided it is OK to have students clubs that revolve around sex (no, it isn't just about "tolerance" or "lifestyle,") how long before the North American Man-Boy Love Association seeks to establish a chapter at our local schools? Or how about a Holocaust Denial Club? No, I don't think so. Those who preach tolerance always seems least inclined to tolerate other points of view.

EDGAR J. STEELE

Sagle