Thread: One Town's War on Gay Teens

In Michele Bachmann's home district, evangelicals have created an extreme anti-gay climate. After a rash of suicides, the kids are fighting back.

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The policy became unofficially known as "No Homo Promo" and passed unannounced to parents and unpublished in the policy handbooks; most teachers were told about it by their principals.

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After Dylon was hit in the head with a binder and called "fag," the associate principal told Dylon that since there was no proof of the incident she could take no action. By contrast, Dylon and others saw how the same teachers who ignored anti-gay insults were quick to reprimand kids who uttered racial slurs. It further reinforced the message resonating throughout the district: Gay kids simply didn't deserve protection.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...teens-20120202

Oh my God. It's insane how evil people can be towards those they hate, and amazing how passive and indifferent people can become when pressed just a little bit by evil men.

gay people don't really count as people though sycld.

People are dumb.

Originally Posted by Vengeful Scars

gay people don't really count as people though sycld.

I was talking about the evil gays/straight people taunted for being gay, trying to corrupt the pure Christians by killing themselves and getting syyympathy.

THERE'S NOTHING IN THE GOSPELS THAT'S ABOUT MERCY OR NON-CONDEMNATION

There's plenty about other subjects like

Originally Posted by Genesis 38:8-10

Then Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform your duty as a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.” Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so when he went in to his brother’s wife, he wasted his seed on the ground in order not to give offspring to his brother. But what he did was displeasing in the sight of the LORD; so He took his life also.

Originally Posted by Psalm 137:9

Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!

http://bible.cc/psalms/137-9.htm

Concordance: 138 Crushing Dashed Dashes Dasheth David Happiness Happy Infants O Ones Psalm Rock Rocks Seize Seizes Stones Sucklings Takes Taketh

I read this article earlier and was very disgusted. This brings back memories from high school back in 2003-04 when there was a Gay Straight Alliance that was shutdown by the school administration. I don't know if a school can still do that. I think homosexuality, bisexuality, and transgenderism and the awareness of how common those lifestyles have always been that a place of learning should have nothing to fear from a student formed organization. In regards to Sarah Palin, she's so dumb and a product of lack of intelligence and party politics.

Originally Posted by gwahir

are they not?

No, no they're not.
The civil rights in question for the respective groups are as different as the groups themselves. Equating the hatred of LGBT individuals to racism just serves to endear those who are uneducated or sit on the fence concerning issues like gay marriage.

EDIT: It's largely the same reason many people will become indignant if someone suggests that homosexuals aren't born gay, or that homosexuality is a choice. I find that ridiculous.
WARNING WARNING I'M DIGRESSING: A group of people should have the same rights irrespective of whether their group chooses to be a group or if they're born into it, no?

no.
If I choose to join the KKK does give me a right to lynch black people?
After all it's not my fault the KKK hates black people enough to kill them, you're just a bigot

Somebody ban him for trolling? Because it has to be trolling, it really does.

Who? Me or Daviwhatever

davidsidadouche

Oh.
Because I was totes trollin'

Originally Posted by DAVIDSDIVAD

strawman fallacy.
Everyone recognizes that the most basic concept of rights means that yours end where mine begin.
Thus, anything that infringes on the rights of another is not a right. It's not that difficult of a concept.

Anyway, no, but you have the right to join and feel what you will.

But they don't have the right to discriminate if it infringes on someone's rights, right?

I don't remember seeing racism mentioned in the article in correlation to the LGBT group's treatment. They're just being discriminated by ideologic ignoramuses thanks to the misguided influence of religion and Sarah Palin's fervor.

Originally Posted by DAVIDSDIVAD

The kids in that town deserve to be respected and treated well because they're human beings with rights, not because some ill advised supporter of their movement tried to take the easy way and piggy back the issue onto racism..

Are you completely stupid or just trying to make some weird point that isn't coming across?

Of course the kids in that town deserve to be treated as human beings because they're human beings. That is also why black people etc. deserve to be treated as human beings. How can you not see how it's similar to civil rights issues?

Originally Posted by DAVIDSDIVAD

No, they don't have the right to discriminate against them. Where are you even coming from? You should probably work on your reading comprehension.

They don't have the right to discriminate against the LGBT community. People shouldn't be treated differently based on their sexual orientation. That's where I'm coming from.

yeah but it's different because blacks are property and US law is meant to protect property not human rights

or they're drawing a relatively accurate parallel between symptoms in both cases

Someone just save me some time. Can I discriminate against fat people or not?

yes because they're not human

Because they chose to be revolting?

being fat is not a choice

fat rights 2012

phat rights 2012

Are you really insinuating that people choose to be gay?

I think he's insinuating that gays choose to stick their penises in other gay's asses and therefore deserve to discriminated against.
But then that's what I always interpret dl as saying.

Well if it isn't a choice, there must be a genetic basis.

And if there is a genetic basis, then...

(we can fix them. then we can fix them.)

It's not a logical follow-on unless you have no meaningful science education, or would like to imply homosexuality it a disease, disorder, or similar defect. Since the gay community will not allow the latter...