ROCKTON, IL -- After months of controversy and warnings from the American Civil Liberties Union that blocking a gay-straight alliance club from forming would violate federal law, a school board in Rockton, Illinois voted late Wednesday night to allow the club to meet on campus. The board's 5-2 vote reversed an earlier decision by a board committee that had recommended the board ban the club.
"We're very pleased that the board has decided to follow the mandate of the federal Equal Access Act and treat all student clubs at Hononegah High School equally and fairly," said John Knight, director of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Project at the ACLU of Illinois. "And we're so proud of the students from the GSA for standing up for their rights and demanding the equal treatment that the law requires."
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I'm also quite proud of those students who had the testicular fortitute to stand up for what is right. It might have been easy to cave in (to the board of education), but they fought a good battle.
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