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Don Nickles: “I may be off base, but I am reading the amendment, and it says: . . . State educational agency, may deny equal access or…”

On the recordJune 14, 2001
I may be off base, but I am reading the amendment, and it says: . . . State educational agency, may deny equal access or a fair opportunity to meet after school in a designated open forum to any youth group, including the Boy Scouts of America, based on that group's favorable or unfavorable position concerning sexual orientation. Maybe I am misreading that, but it looks to me as if it is an invitation for gay activist groups, for all kinds of groups, to meet. If you give access to the Boy Scouts, then you have to give access to gay activists in elementary schools, grade schools, schools up to the 12th grade, senior high schools.
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Don Nickles
Oklahoma
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Discussing an amendment related to equal access for youth groups in schools.

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