Just to clarify this...I am NOT against gays/lesbians.
Also, warning: Long rant.

You see...There's a group at my school called the GSA, or Gay-Straight-Alliance. They basically try to get rid of discrimination against gays and help them fit into society. Okay, that's cool. I don't have a problem with it; seems like a nice little club. But things are getting out of hand. =/

First of all, the GSA was started because gay and bisexual kids complained to the school that they were being treated like crap. The school didn't have the funds to make a new club, so they removed the ski club from the school to fund the GSA instead. Obviously, this pissed off the members of the ski club, as well as a lot of other people. Those funds could also have been used to help make the swimming pool that many students are requesting in the school (more than the amount of students who supported the funding of the GSA).

Then the signs started. Our school is COVERED with pro-GSA posters and rainbow signs. It looks ridiculous. And our school has even started supporting the Laramie Project (a project that was made to bring attention to the killing of a gay student at a town called Laramie). That's fine except that the funds set aside for the project could have been used for the ski club or swimming pool. >_>

And then there was the incident with the school board member who was forced to resign after he said the word "faggot" at a GSA meeting. He didn't say it in an offensive way. He just said 'My son should be able to call someone a faggot if he wants to". That stems from a problem that's been happening lately...It's suddenly a "terrible thing" to say "gay" or "fag" in school. Just the other day, a student started crying when someone said that a homework assignment was "gay". The student who said it also was close to getting a detention from the teacher. That's been happening more and more, because the GSA says that they are" derogatory terms that hurt our feelings".

So one day, some guy (I think he was a senior) decided to make a group called the SSA, or Straight-Straight Alliance. It isn't a real club, it's just a Facebook group. Also, the announcement board clearly says that the group was NOT made to discriminate against gays and bisexuals. It was made to support being straight and to point out why the GSA is a bad club. Over 100 people, including me and one of my best friends, joined it.

Now, somebody from the GSA has found out about the club and is trying to get all members in trouble with the school. They claim that it's a discriminative club that was made as an attack against gays and bisexuals. The school has been talking about taking some action against us now.

They clearly don't understand the point of the SSA. It's hard to take our school seriously anymore with rainbow "Erase Hate" posters and "Laramie Project" advertisements every 5 feet on the walls. The GSA is taking their mission too far by denying us our freedom of speech, using up funds that could be used for better things, and by giving our school an image that we'd much rather not have. =/

Sorry, just had to get that off my chest.

I was in the GSA last year in tenth grade.
It kinda died though, no one was willing to do anything and no one would support it.
The only thing we ever did was get shirts made for the Day of Silence.

My friend wanted me to join it, but I decided that I didn't really have the time. I don't really have anything against gay/bisexual groups or anything, but the GSA club at my school just sucks. =(

Sounds bad. :c

My school doesn't even have clubs =O

Really? That sucks. D8

... Come to think of it, I don't think any other school has them. =O

We don't have things like cheerleading and band either. These are american stuff :B

The school should have just ignored the GSA requests, no offense to those who requested. People are gonna complain now. It's not that I'm a homophobe or the people with the SSA are homophobe, it just seems wrong.

And in New York City, the majority of Manhattan schools have GSA. And three of them that I'm applying to.

Protection against someone calling you anything is a luxury, not a right.

Besides, if you're gay/bisexual, you should be proud of someone calling you something like that. If you're not proud of your life choices, then why have chosen them at all?

Well said.

Thank you.
Calling someone gay and a fag is better than other names I have heard. Thus being that gay is not an insulting word, nor is fag.

We don't have GSA at my school. However, we do have a Seminoles for Christ religious group (The Seminole is our mascot, in case you didn't know), so to have a GSA club at my school would probably cause a major problem.

I mean, there are gay people at our school. (I just saw two girls holding hands the other day, however that could just be a friend thing).

The Drum Major (leader of the band) at my school is either Bi or Gay, and a lot of people know that, but no one discriminates against her for it.

The only problem I've seen with "sectionalism" at my school was in American Government, when we've almost gone into the "Gay Marraige being Legal or Illegal" debate/arguement four times in as many weeks. Of course, the only person to speak out against gay marriage was someone who went with the "the bible says marriage = 1 man + 1 woman and nothing else" reasoning, which I can understand, but it's rather short-minded in the grand scheme of things.

Here, I'll explain that tangent:

My religion is against homosexuality, but my religion ALSO says that I should love my neighbor (gay or straight) as if they were myself. Just for TYOM, who may be against homosexuality, Jesus, when asked what the most important commandment, says that the first one "To love God with all of your being," is the most important, and you prove it through obeying the second "Love your neighbor as if they were yourself." In the Letters of St. Paul, he says "You can't love God, and hate your neighbor."

I don't mind gay people or bisexual people. I don't like it when they flaunt the fact, but that particular dislike is not reserved for them (I don't like when people flaunt how rich they are, for example).

My policy: "If you want to be gay, then be my guest, but if I am going to respect your decisions, you must respect mine."



Hatred only begets hatred.

BEGETS EH?!?!?

holy hell. i'm glad i didn't have to deal with this kind of stuff

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