Principal Davis ought to be sacked, then sued out of existence. If you have such bigoted notions about sexuality, go work in a school targeted to bigots like yourselves.

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"students at an Okeechobee, Fla., high school were told they couldn't form a gay-straight alliance because "sex-based" groups were banned" and then "Okeechobee officials tried a new trick, citing the law's language about protecting the 'well-being of students' to argue a gay-straight alliance would undermine abstinence-only education".

What does sexual intercourse have to do with this? The school officials actually tried to argue that students were coming to them to form a sex club? A gay-straight sex club to boot! How does that even work? The sad fact that deranged arguments like that can make it to Federal courts shows how much further we have to go for equality in this country.

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Perhaps some will be shocked that "Republican" judges(I assume the author meant judged appointed by Republicans) protected the rights of these students. Shock is not in order.

It's just one more Alternet-poster-expressed bigotry from time to time that party affiliation determines devotion to human rights. Republican, so-called, judges have opposed Bush on Guantanamo, and of course Republicans like Earl Warren and Harry Blackmun stretched the Constitution about as far as anyone could in their civil rights decisions in the past. Believe it or not, most judges take their jobs seriously and their oath to be impartial.

It is heartening to see the bully in this case, the principal, put in his "real" place.

It is also a good civics lessons for those who live and die by stereotypes about liberals and conservatives, Republicans and Democrats.

Now if a Democratic judge will only strike down some of those "speech codes" on our liberal college campuses, and restore the First Amendment to schools that are supposed to be all about the marketplace of diverse ideas.

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Well, one of those actions anyway:

asked whether her parents knew her sexual orientation. Jane said no. The principal informed them

The principal had information on a child that the parents did not have. It is his duty to give them that information.

There is nothing that is exempt from a parent's right to know about their child.

And even the fact that the child's father was a dumbass homophobe doesn't change the parental right to know.

Everything ELSE that the principal did, deserves him being crucified.

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So... you disagree with court decisions you obviously haven't read and know nothing about. Great. I suppose it would be a waste of time to go into detail about reports issued by the National Coalition for the Homeless about how many teens have been kicked out of their homes after their parents found out they were gay, or anything else, because you CLEARLY know better.

I believe young people should be allowed to come out to their parents on their own timeline, when they feel it's best for themselves and their families. Guess we're going to have to agree to disagree then.

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We may live in a dark and repressive time, but people still surprise by standing up and calling bullsh*t when they see it. Amazingly the same people who call for law and order will resist the court rulings by any means they have available to them.

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