Pie, don't apologize. My daughter is gay and I would and have defended her right to live without harassment. What is described in the article is assault and battery and it confounds me why anyone would condone this behavior for whatever reason, whoever the victim is.

My daughter and her fiance moved into the Bachman woman's district last year so that is 2 votes against her. Her district is so strange.....in some areas there are the worst of the worst trailer courts and then there is the TPC golf club and its surrounding nice neighborhoods.

Oh Pie - please don't apologise. I feel angry all over again hearing this. If I was your big sister that pellet-gun wanker would have had a hard time a-walkin' back to school with his gun wedged sideways up his ass.

I am a FIERCE sister-hag.

No one, not Pie, not brothers, sisters, children, family, or friends should be dismissed this way; gay, straight, disabled, or minority in any way, shape, or form. Another group of kids that are marginalized and bullied are kids who have parents in prison. It makes me sick that some people feel entitled to torture others. And that people in positions of authority either condone it or just look the other way.

^^THAT. I posted pretty much the same thing to my Facebook wall earlier when I shared the Rolling Stone article.

That town is apparently full of the fundie fanatic churches. I love how the superintendant of that district tries to say that they aren't anti gay, and there isn't anything of that caliber happening there.

Right. Nine kids just kill themselves because there was nothing on TV that day.

Pie, if you were my brother, like Wah Wah said, I would have beat that pellet gun fuckwad into oblivion. I love/hate my oldest brother, but you can be damn fucking sure NO ONE messes with him, or they go through me. Even know, when I'm 35 and he's 33.

It's disgusting that if the one little girl was bullied for being fat, the administration of the school would step in, but because she's bullied for being a FAT DYKE, they don't say a word, or try to give her feeble comebacks.

I hope there is a way that the federal department of education can step in and give this district an extreme home makeover.

I am furious at this. FURIOUS. Clearly, Marcus, praying the ghey away doesn't help or you wouldn't need to enlist vicious bullies to do your dirty work.

I hope everyone involved in this dies horribly in a fire.

I have a friend from college who grew up and attended the Anoka public schools. He graduated from that high school in the 90's, right about the time that first policy was passed. The Rolling Stone article did not over dramatize the atmosphere one bit. It's a horrible place.

If any kid does anything...anything thing at all that derogatory or demeaning in my classroom, I'm glad I have the support of my administration to do something about it. Sadly, much of the hurtful things kids say and do come from attitudes at home. I only wish I had the authority address that.

Sometimes you just hate people, you know?

Yeah, I guess these assholes who hate on gay kids to the point of driving them to suicide is exactly like me hating pedophiles, murderers, rapists and animal abusers. Sometimes you just hate people.

Easy there, I meant I hate the Bachmannites, not these poor kids.

Edit: I'd like to apologize if I wasn't entirely clear. I figured it would be clear because I posted the article that lead to this discussion, but I neglected to realize that it was on the previous page. My bad.

The fucktards at Anoka-Hennepin have officialy, albeit reluctantly, changed their bullying policy.

Link

Here I thought PROTECTING THE CHILDREN meant not allowing them to be bullied for any reason. Zero tolerance. But, apparently to rabid, stupid, homophobic twats, that means protect the straight ones, and let the gay ones kill themselves.

I still hate this fucking area of the US, and I'm embarrassed that those fucktards also call themselves Americans.

Protect them from what? Fashionable clothing choices? I really wish they'd go into that and explain what they're protecting their kids from.

This argument is totally nonsensical. Unlike organised groups like "Champlin" and other deluded fundies operating under various banners, there is no organised group of homosexual activists seeking to plot the teachings of a "gay agenda" (a term seemingly invented by anti-gay preachers).

There are certainly many organised groups supporting gay causes from same-sex marriage, to adoption, to support of gay teens - but the dangerous message spread by these hate groups is that there is somewhere a group of gay people called "The Homosexual Activists" whose job it is to convert school kids, teenagers and others into becoming homosexuals* - and seemingly this mythical group of people lurk in the halls of schools across the nation.

The only insidious group of individuals I see lurking around schools trying to promote their agenda are Barb Anderson's pathetic group and the dozens like them.

*If that was the case, I'd have a house full of toasters by now!

There's really no point dissecting what these people say, they're so steeped in ignorance they'll immediately reject a rational argument.

It's like arguing with a pig. You waste your breathe and only piss off the pig.

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