The principle of "equal access" means that if a public schools allows students to create any after-school clubs, then they cannot be restrictive about the subject of the clubs that exist. This is usually used to make sure that schools do not prevent the creation of religious clubs in the misguided assumption that allowing them violates the separation of church and state. Some Christians, however, do not believe in extending these same freedoms to other students.

Agape Press reports on how some parents in the Lubbock Public School System want to deny students the ability to create a club for gay students:

Judy Strickland is a former member of the Texas State Board of Education. She fully supports the Lubbock school district's resistance to homosexual activism, and has been vocal about making sure the school officials -- as well as the public -- know she is on their side. ... "It's deplorable that we as Christians are sitting back and letting this small minority just move like gangbusters," she says, "and of course, with the very sad ruling of the sodomy law in Texas's Supreme Court, they are moving very rapidly."

Of course, it's just fine when national organizations help create Christian clubs for young students in order to promote an Evangelical Christian Agenda, and I'm sure that Strickland would be among the first to fight to make sure that such Christian groups be allowed to use school facilities. Why, then, would she and others like to see the same freedoms denied to other students and other ideas? Probably because she sees the government, including the public schools, as vehicles for her vision of Christianity and Christian beliefs. Any time the government allows something non-Christian (in her understanding) to occur, then that is illegal and should be stopped.

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