New Zealand Schools Ban Gay Rights Group

According to Radio New Zealand News:

A youth support agency says some schools are breaching human rights by refusing to allow students to set up gay support groups.

Rainbow Youth says the refusal is a breach of human rights and another form of homophobia.

Education officer Serafin Dillon says she knows of four schools that have refused to allow students to set up the support groups.

Ms Dillon will not name the schools, but says staff told her that school authorities feared the groups could trigger an outbreak of homophobia.

She says the schools are not the same ones that recently banned same-sex couples at school balls unless they signed a contract confirming that they were gay or lesbian.