Gay scholarship material draws protest from Baptist church in GA

Anyone who supports the ban for these scholarships are ignorant themselves. Look at other scholarships and compare them. You have to meet certain standards to qualify. Also, did you forget the rules and regulations that come with offering scholarships? If you have the money, you have every right to spend it however you want. These companies that offer scholarships submit their "own" standards.

This is dumb. Get a life people.

Well, that was the whole point of this story. There are so many special interest groups that offer scholarships and should be grateful in this slumping economy that they still help those in need. May we not agree with the organizations message, it still provides much needed help.

NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund .. so would those against Guns say it's terrible for an organization like that to sponsor scholarships? And should we then ban them from helping students that need the funds? Does that mean the student who accepts the funds from the NRA will eventually become a gun toting lunatic?

Shame that the Baptists had to complain about that. Many familes need these contributions, without help they can not afford highschool. The fact that it is sponsored by LGBT has nothing to do with it. They support familes and friends of somebody who is Gay and may have issues because of that.

Here is a link to a website that lists organizations that provide High school scholarships for those in need. Most offer scholarships based on simple essay writing others have different criteria.
http://www.highscholarships.com/high-school-freshman-scholarships.html
Top 5 I saw:

1) The Fountainhead Essay Contest
For high school students who participate in an essay contest on the novel Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. 236 scholarships are available, each worth $10,000.
(www.aynrand.org)

2) NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund:
For all high school students participating in a writing contest. 1 award of $4,000 is available.
(www.nradefensefund.org/writingcontest.aspx)

3) American Legion National High School Oratorical Contest:
For high school students enrolled in public, parochial, military, private, or state accredited home schools. Several scholarships of up to $18,000 are available.
(www.legion.org)

4) McKelvey Entrepreneurial E-Scholarship:
For young entrepreneurs across the USA. 100 scholarships of $10,000 are available.
(www.mckelveyfoundation.org)

5) NetAid Global Action Scholarships:
For high school students in the United States who are willing to build a brighter future for the poorest people in the world. 4 awards of $5,000 each are available.
(www.netaid.org)

You can lie as much as you want, the organization that receives the applications can still screen you and decide on who will receive the scholarship. There are many people that can not afford highschool and that is what scholarships are for. It doesn't matter what the students are, gay, straight or have 2 heads .. it goes by the qualifications that the scholarship provider sets.

Giving a homosexual scholarship ..???? Any school can give whatever scholarship they chose, christian, public, closed, private or stand on their head school. Thats a right of the school, not the organization that will provide the money.

Say NO to this scholarship.

Ignoring anti-homosexuality, there is no way to prove if a person is actually gay or lying. There is probably many men that will claim to be gay or do one gay thing for $5,000.

Additionally public schools should not be giving scholarships to one type or group of people anyway. A public school giving a homosexuality scholarship is just as controversial as a public school giving an only-Christian scholarship. They are public tax paid schools provided by and for everyone, Catholics, atheists, homosexuals, or heterosexuals. Public schools are not their to help one certain group.

Shame isn't it. They mean well, it's a good organization that spends it's collection money (yes they operate as AA or any support group does by individual collections) on giving somebody who cares a scholarship. There are thousands of scholar ship funds in this Country, just because this one touches on gay subject doesn't make it any less valuable for some student that needs the money to attend school.

I hope whoever gets the scholarship a member of his church is a big FLAMER!!!!

The scholarship is provided by PFLAG and hence they should be able to stipulate any qualifications they want. G.E., Disney, Capital One and thousands of other companies and organizations do .. so only because this is an organization that supports Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays it turns into a Paid to be gay propaganda?? Come on Rev. you can even start your own scholarship fund if you like. Only requirement you can have is to be a Baptist..?