AlterNet: Gays Can't Do Abstinence?

Gays Can't Do Abstinence?

It's already pretty well established that abstinence-only education discriminates against gay and lesbian students, but this takes the cake.

A Florida high school has refused to allow a student to establish a Gay-Straight Alliance as an after-school club. After being called out on their bullshit reason that the school doesn't allow any clubs (it does), Okeechobee High School is now claiming that there can't be a queer club because the school has an abstinence-only policy.

Eh? Apparently only hetero teens can abstain.

The ACLU has filed a lawsuit against the school on the student's behalf.

Jessica Valenti is the executive editor of Feministing.