I believe in the separation of church and hate.
Some things you must always be unable to bear… Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash; your picture in the paper nor money in the bank either. Just refuse to bear them.
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Dads, the second you see your son dropping the limp wrist, you walk over there and crack that wrist. Man up. Give him a good punch. Ok? You are not going to act like that. You were made by God to be a male and you are going to be a male. And when your daughter starts acting too Butch you rein her in. And you say, “Oh, no, sweetheart. You can play sports. Play them to the glory of God. But sometimes you are going to act like a girl and walk like a girl and talk like a girl and smell like a girl and that means you are going to be beautiful. You are going to be attractive. You are going to dress yourself up.
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Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville, North Carolina (qtd. in “Amendment 1 Advances in North Carolina” via Autostraddle.com) Trigger Warning: Hateful anti-gay speech. |
This high school took anti-bullying campaigns to a whole new level!
The entire student body at Cypress Ranch High School in Texas (in the same district that Asher Brown went to school) participated in the lip dub of a song written and performed by one of their classmates.
They did this as part of a contest for an anti-bullying video, and you can vote for them here: http://nobull.votigo.com/contests/showentry/1042123?v=50
Being gay in high school is like being thrown into the Hunger Games arena as the only player without a weapon while Effie chirps, “May the odds be ever in your favor!”
Ravi is the man who used his webcam to spy on his roommate, Tyler Clementi, and another man in a sexual encounter and then broadcast it. Clementi committed suicide shortly after.
Ravi has been found guilty of several crimes including witness tampering and bias intimidation, and could face up to 10 years in prison. He could also be deported following his sentence.
MTV’s “It Gets Better” Episode
MTV has a new show called “It Gets Better” hosted by Dan Savage, and based on his project. It follows different queer young people as they come out, accept themselves, and face other daily challenges.
The first episode just debuted, and it was lovely. One of the kids was from my city, and our queer youth group, Growing American Youth, gets a shout-out. :) Heyyy!
You can watch it here: http://www.mtv.com/shows/it_gets_better/series.jhtml
The ELCA congregations in Minnesota voted overwhelming to oppose the legislation that would ban same-sex marriage. :)
You know what’s awesome? I go to an ELCA church.
You know what’s not awesome? I got to an LCMS school. The LCMS doesn’t like queers. Needless to say, my church, full of old people, is more accepting than my high school full of young teachers.
YESSSS!!!!
We’ve been waiting for this for so long. You know Michelle Bachman’s school district, the Anoka-Hennepin district in Minnesota that has had a suicide epidemic? The one where numerous gay kids killed themselves because the school environment was toxic, and the staff could say nothing about homosexuality, which ended up meaning that they didn’t protect gay kids? The one that this heart-breaking article in Rolling Stone was written about? Where the Evangelicals controlled the town and everyone told the gay kids that they were monsters who were going to hell?
Yeah. They finally changed the policy. Sometimes we win, you guys. :)
