School board member, parents challenge LGBTQ club at Bennington (NE) High School

[Omaha Steve]

https://omaha.com/news/local/education/school-board-member-parents-challenge-lgbtq-club-at-bennington-high-school/article_3e3e8d80-0931-11ee-a683-9791730c5601.html

By Lauren Wagner Jun 12, 2023 Updated 7 hrs ago

A Bennington school board member, backed by several parents, challenged the district’s administration for allowing an LGBTQ club at Bennington High School during a lengthy meeting Monday night.

Steve Shannon, who was elected in November, expressed his opposition to the Prism Club. He said the organization “pushes ideology” and causes “irreparable harm” to Bennington students. The club became part of Monday’s discussion after the administration asked the board to pay several staff members, including the Prism Club sponsor, for their time overseeing clubs. The board approved the payments on a 4-2 vote, with Shannon and Tim Dreessen voting no.

Since Shannon was elected in November, he has been posting on social media anti-LGBTQ content, conspiracy theories and false information about the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Before Monday’s meeting, he posted on Facebook that he believes Bennington’s Prism Club is “centered around sex.”

Several parents used the meeting’s public comment period to criticize the funding and existence of the Prism Club at the high school. Prism clubs are sometimes called GSA clubs, which can stand for gay-straight or gender and sexuality alliances. They are student-led organizations that “provide support to LGBTQ students and educate others about LGBT issues, while engaging in awareness activities,” according to the American Civil Liberties Union.

FULL story at link above.

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1. I hope the whiny snowflakes got a full and fair hearing before the Board

Right before the Board voted to tell them to go piss up a rope.

[msongs]

2. dear mr shannon, most usa sex crime is committed by xtian hetero white men. do something bout that

[Grins]

3. How about objecting to having a Christian Club?

Don’t they also “push ideology” and cause “irreparable harm” to Bennington students? A case can be made….