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U.S. rights group sues Florida school for rejecting gay-straight club
Source: Reuters
U.S. rights group sues Florida school for rejecting gay-straight club
BY BARBARA LISTON
ORLANDO, Florida Fri Dec 20, 2013 6:32pm EST
(Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union has sued a central Florida school district for denying a seventh grader the right to form an on-campus club that promotes a safe and welcoming environment for students regardless of their sexual orientation, court documents showed.
Filed in U.S. District Court in Ocala, Florida, on Thursday, the complaint marks the second time this year the ACLU has taken up the cause of the Gay-Straight Alliance, as the club is called, at Carver Middle School in Leesburg, 45 miles northwest of Orlando.
Lake County School District spokesman Chris Patton said the district had yet to be served with the complaint on Friday so he could not comment.
The ACLU sued the school district for the first time in May on behalf of then-eighth grader Bayli Silberstein, 14, who fought for a year to establish a Gay-Straight Alliance at the middle school.
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BY BARBARA LISTON
ORLANDO, Florida Fri Dec 20, 2013 6:32pm EST
(Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union has sued a central Florida school district for denying a seventh grader the right to form an on-campus club that promotes a safe and welcoming environment for students regardless of their sexual orientation, court documents showed.
Filed in U.S. District Court in Ocala, Florida, on Thursday, the complaint marks the second time this year the ACLU has taken up the cause of the Gay-Straight Alliance, as the club is called, at Carver Middle School in Leesburg, 45 miles northwest of Orlando.
Lake County School District spokesman Chris Patton said the district had yet to be served with the complaint on Friday so he could not comment.
The ACLU sued the school district for the first time in May on behalf of then-eighth grader Bayli Silberstein, 14, who fought for a year to establish a Gay-Straight Alliance at the middle school.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/20/us-usa-florida-aclulawsuit-idUSBRE9BJ1FA20131220
