S.C. Principal To Resign After Gay Club Approved For School

[CatWoman]

what a fucking idiot

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The principal of a South Carolina high school plans to resign rather than share his campus with an organization for gay students.

Irmo High School principal Eddie Walker confirmed Wednesday to The Associated Press he is stepping down at the end of the 2008-09 school year. Walker said he gave his reasons in a letter sent to teachers and others and he refused to talk about the issue further.

In a copy of the letter obtained by WIS-TV in Columbia, Walker said allowing the Gay-Straight Alliance club on campus would conflict with his professional beliefs and religious convictions because there are no other clubs on campus based on sexual preference or activity and the school teaches abstinence-based sex education.

"I feel the formation of a Gay-Straight Alliance Club at Irmo High school implies that students joining the club will have chosen to or will choose to engage in sexual activity with members of the same sex, opposite sex, or members of both sexes," wrote Walker, who said he prayed about the issue before deciding to step down.

In the letter, Walker wrote he wanted to resign at the end of this school year, but he felt like he would break the trust of students and teachers who were already planning on him to come back. Walker would not release the note to AP.

Lexington-Richland School District 5 couldn't stop the club from forming because federal law prohibits discriminating against a club based on its purpose, spokeswoman Michelle Foster said. The district would have had to ban all clubs from campus or face a lawsuit it would likely lose if it kept the club from the school, Foster said.

http://www.wsoctv.com/education/16354902/detail.html

[The Magistrate]

1. Good Riddance To Bad Rubbish, Ma'am

[Indenturedebtor]

2. No kidding.

Don't let the door crush the back of your skull on the way out jackass!

[Breeze54]

3. Good! It's better he go now then cause any trouble later on next year!

At least that would be my thinking with dealing with any potential troublemaker.

At least he didn't sit and fume about it and cause problems and bring church ladies and lawsuits.

:hi:

[libnnc]

4. Irmo...figures

the stinky belly button of SC.

I *hate* that state.

[N4457S]

6. Hate It...

...or not, it's one of the fastest growing parts of the south.

It's become a total hotbed for auto manufacturing. They're sucking the life out of SE Michigan.

[libnnc]

7. I was born and raised in NC

we've always hated SC

[N4457S]

9. Yes...

...I've been there and it's hillbilly but it's also becoming very prosperous.

[libnnc]

11. I really don't give a shit how prosperous it is

it's still a shithole state.

[N4457S]

14. Money...

...is how we measure accomplishment. You know that as well as I do.

[libnnc]

17. you don't know shit

but keep kicking the thread :hi:

[N4457S]

18. I Know...

...plenty.

I also know from years of experience that I'm one hundred percent right about this.

[underseasurveyor]

5. Good! don't like his kind anyway

He's a bad influence to have around.

[JackBeck]

8. Looks like a modern-day remake of Footloose could be in the works.

Is John Lithgow available?

[CatWoman]

10. give that man a DUzy!!!

[xchrom]

12. calling the first meeting of Gay Straight alliance here at Irmo high --

First item on the agenda is a teacher student orgy in the gym.

partcipation is mandatory for those wishing to hold office.

all thos in favor vote 'aye'.

those opposed vote 'nay'.

:eyes:

[KamaAina]

13. Maybe Bob Jones will open up a prep school

this asshat would be perfect. :eyes:

[Bluebear]

15. 'and he refused to talk about the issue further.' - Well, that's adult.

[DRoseDARs]

16. I guess the anti-gay marriage nuts were right: If we allow gay marriage, then straight marriages wil

...falter. The circumstantial and ultimately meaningless evidence they love to use so much is staring us in the face: This guy is being forced to not participate in a gay club, so now he is going to go home, molest children, and stuff box turtles up his ass, all because of Teh Gheys being given equal rights. Quelle horreur!

[northernsoul]

19. Enjoy your self-inflicted unemployment.

Idiot.