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(Atlanta, Georgia) Perry McGuire, the Republican candidate for Georgia Attorney General says that allowing Gay Straight Alliances in schools is "much like allowing a pedophile club or a gambling club to meet at school."
McGuire made the remark to the Agape Press, a Christian news service. He was responding to a question about a court ruling involving a Georgia school sued by gay students.
A federal judge ruled last month that White County High School must allow students in the gay-straight alliance club to meet on campus.
U-S District Court Judge William C. O'Kelley said that the school cannot deny the GSA, called P.R.I.D.E., equal access or a fair opportunity to conduct meetings on school premises during noninstructional time.
O'Kelley said that school officials had violated the Federal Equal Access Act by barring the group from meeting on campus, while allowing other non-curricular clubs to do so.
McGuire, who would become Georgia's top law enforcement officer if elected disagrees with Judge O'Kelley's reasoning.
"I think the problem here, and I think where the court substantially erred, is that the intent of the Act was never to allow organizations that advocate illegal activity [to have campus access]," he told Agape Press. "And in Georgia, sex between minors is illegal; statutory rape laws apply."
"Homosexual activist clubs in schools are detrimental to students and to the moral well-being of society," he said.
In February 2005 students at White High were told they would be allowed to organize a Gay-Straight Alliance, which later became Peers Rising In Diversity Education, P.R.I.D.E..
About two weeks later about 250 angry parents attended a White County school board meeting to protest the club and the board decided to ban all non-academic clubs.
The move staved off a threatened suit by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of the students, but when some of the non-academic clubs began holding meetings on school property and have their meetings promoted during morning announcements the ACLU filed a federal discrimination suit.
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