By Jim Brown
November 12, 2002

(AgapePress) - More than 2,000 pro-family advocates in one Kentucky county have rallied in support of an effort to stop a pro-homosexual club from forming at a local high school.

On Sunday, concerned parents and students gathered in Canonsburg to protest Boyd County High School's recent decision to allow a Gay Straight Alliance student group to meet on campus. Just one week earlier, nearly half of Boyd County's student body stayed at home from school to protest the GSA.

Scott Lively of the California-based Pro-Family Law Center was at the rally and addressed those in attendance. He says homosexual activists made a big mistake trying to push the club in a conservative community like Boyd County.

"Normally you see these clubs only going in where the homosexuals already have significant political power and where the population has already been indoctrinated with their propaganda," Lively explains. "But [in Boyd County] none of that's happened yet. I think [the homosexual activists have] misstepped."

That blunder, Lively says, may prove to be beneficial to pro-family advocates. "It provides us a wonderful opportunity to actually put a system in place that will teach the kids to be civil to each other, but completely block the pro-homosexual political agenda," he says.

The Christian attorney says his office has laid out a strategy that is going to set a model for the nation.

"If the schools adopt curriculum that addresses some of the basic issues that the GSA clubs say they want to deal with -- tolerance, anti-harassment, those sorts of things -- but does it in a pro-family way, the school would then retain the power to deny the club on the grounds that it's curricular, since the Equal Access Act only covers extra-curricular clubs," he says.

Lively says the people of Boyd County, as well as some district officials, have shown interest in pursuing that approach, which may result in a win-win solution.

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