Walt Bayes: Schools need separate bathrooms for gay students
Mike Butts mbutts@idahopress.com
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
TREASURE VALLEY — Homosexual and heterosexual students should have separate bathrooms and showers in Idaho schools, a Wilder Republican running for the Idaho House said Friday...
...The topic came up after Bayes mentioned it in his campaign literature, where he wrote, “It is absolutely wrong to force any student to share the same bathrooms and showers with homosexual teachers or students.”
Now just how does he plan to accomplish that? Will he require everyone to carry a card saying that they are straight or gay? On the other hand, maybe you will have to sign an affidavit that states that you are straight before going to the bathroom.
And from the “Didn’t the Supreme Court already rule that you cannot do that” file…
Principal Questioned in Gay Rights Case
Monday, May 12, 2008 - 07:17 PM Updated: 10:02 PM
By Mark Jenkins
A principal takes the stand Monday, for allegedly violating the civil rights of some students.
David Davis, the principal of Ponce de Leon High School.
He's accused of preventing students from wearing clothing or showing homosexual symbols…
…The string of incidents began last September, when a student who was ridiculed for being gay approached Principal Davis to file a complaint.
Monday in court, Davis says he told the student not to discuss her sexual orientation with other students.
Days later, Davis heard of students making gay rights signs, and reports of 25 of them coming to school with the letters "GP" or "Gay Pride" written on their hands.
Gillman says she is not gay, but her cousin (a student at PDL High) is.
Gillman made t-shirts with slogans like:
-"I support equal marriage rights"
-"I support gays"
-"Equal not special rights"
Principal Davis said the t-shirts violate the school board dress code.
But…
…Another interesting point, Davis says clothes with the confederate flag are allowed at school. He says they haven't caused a distraction. Of the 406 students at the high school, none of them are African American…
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