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Judge rules against gay students in Lubbock By AP from the HoustonCronical.com on the Web, March 3, 2004 LUBBOCK, TX -- A federal judge today ruled against a group of gay high school students who sued the Lubbock school district after they were prohibited from meeting on campus. The Lubbock Gay Straight Alliance claimed in its July lawsuit that the district violated students' constitutional rights and a law forbidding discrimination against groups meeting on campuses of schools receiving federal funds. U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings ruled in his summary judgment order that "the local school officials and parents are in the best position to determine what subject matter is reasonable and will be allowed on LISD campuses." The judge ruled that the group's goals violate well-known policies at Lubbock High School and the district, and that the case has nothing to do with denial of student rights. He found that the decision not to allow the group to meet on campus is "an assertion of a school's right not to surrender control of the public school system to students and erode a community's standard of what subject matter is considered obscene and inappropriate."
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