Buttars’ Gay-Straight Alliance Obsession Continues

By Tracy Medley, 2-09-07

Sen. Chris Buttars isn’t happy with watered-down “school-club” legislation that just passed through the House. The bill, which was created by Rep. Aaron Tilton and the Senate Health and Human Services Committee isn’t tough enough for Buttars and he plans to remedy that by restoring the bill to its original form according to the Deseret Morning News.

If Buttars gets his way schools would be protected from being sued for refusing to accept certain non-curricular student clubs – and of course by non-curricular he means the Gay-Straight Alliance. “In my opinion, I hope they don’t allow them, they could, but I hope they don’t,” Buttars said concerning the Gay-Straight Alliance in the D-News.

Buttars revision would require “non-curricular” clubs to make all literature and materials available to parents in advance; which goes beyond Tilton’s measure that only requires parental consent for a child to join a non-curricular group.  The revision would also involve schools appointing faculty advisors to each group.