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(Via Equality Matters)

JMG reader Alan points us to this AP story: In a rare and forceful act of advocacy, an Iowa newspaper devoted the entire front page of its Sunday edition to an anti-bullying editorial after a gay teen committed suicide. Relatives have said 14-year-old Kenneth Weishuhn Jr. suffered intense harassment, including threatening cellphone calls and nasty comments posted online, after coming …

From the Obama administration. Valerie Jarrett explains: Earlier today, we screened BULLY at the White House. We were joined by bullying prevention advocates from a range of communities – LGBT, AAPI, faith, disability, and others – as well as educational partners and key Obama Administration staff who work on these issues every day, including Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. Before …

Today the White House thoughtfully picked the Day Of Silence to endorse the federal Student Non-Discrimination Act (SNDA) and the Safe Schools Improvement Act. Chris Geidner reports at Metro Weekly: White House spokesman Shin Inouye tells Metro Weekly, “The President and his Administration have taken many steps to address the issue of bullying. He is proud to support the Student …

Clip description: We dug up some old photos from Day of Silence back in the day. Look how far we’ve come! We’re so proud of everyone who participates in Day of Silence each year, working together to end the bullying and harassment that LGBT students face in school each day. Together, we’re building safer schools!

Taking a page from the bigots in Tennessee, the Missouri House has advanced a bill that effectively outlaws any mention of homosexuality in public schools. The bill is aimed at thwarting anti-bullying measures and would also prevent the formation of Gay-Straight Alliance clubs. The bill reads: 170.370. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, no instruction, material, or extracurricular activity …

Advocates for LGBT students have pulled their anti-bullying bill from consideration after the Louisiana Family Forum pressured legislators to strip the mention of sexual orientation from the bill. Because being gay does not subject a student to bullying. In what has become a near annual rite at the Louisiana Legislature, civil rights and gay rights advocates failed Wednesday to win …

“It’s sad to see groups like GLSEN be accepted by the teacher’s establishment and then allow the platform to go into the public schools and try and indoctrinate children. For example, they have something called the Day of Silence. Now they chose April 20 of all days to be the Day of Silence, I looked that up, I was like, …

“This is not about tolerating any issue or person. It is about a radical and forced agenda of homosexuality that these [days] of silence are promoting, sponsored by the GLSEN organization and sometimes under pressure by the schools. In that situation, parents and students ought to protest. They should not be forced to participate, or bullied or pressured in any …

The Ontario Assembly is considering Bill 13, which mandates that schools must organize programs to thwart anti-gay bullying. This has made one Catholic group extremely angry because ordering an anti-bullying campaign is bullying itself. From the petition campaign launched by Parents As First Educators: – Bill 13 privileges one group of students (LGBT) over others.– An anti-bullying bill should treat …

And contact the ADF for legal assistance if anybody doesn’t want your kid shoving his religion in the faces of unwilling gay students.

While some theaters have agreed to run the film without a rating, yesterday word came that Bully has been re-rated PG-13, a move made without cutting what some consider the film’s most crucial scene. The film studio exults via press release: This decision by the MPAA is a huge victory for the parents, educators, lawmakers, and most importantly, children, everywhere …

A coalition of the nation’s most infamous and repulsive anti-gay figures have joined in the call for Christian parents to keep their children out of school on the annual day to bring attention to anti-gay bullying. Because Christian children should never be denied their God-given right to use violence against gay kids. Endorsing the campaign to continue the physical and …

The Advocate reports: “Last week, the student body at Cypress Ranch High School came together to create a anti-bullying video to the song “Who Do U Think U R?,” a song written and sung by student Kaitlyn K. The project was filmed and performed entirely by the students in Cypress, TX.”(Via – Zack Ford)

Sadly, Canada is not immune from the American disease of religious leaders who distort and lie about pro-gay legislation. Here’s the actual text of the anti-bullying bill that the speakers are so boldly lying about.

After the MPAA gave Bully an R rating, its filmmakers decided to release the film today without a rating at all. In response, AMC Theatres announced that it would allow children under 17 to see the movie with a parental permission slip. All this has infuriated the Christian “watchdogs” of the entertainment industry, the Parents Television Council. “They’re doing an …

A former student at Manhattan’s exclusive Calhoun School is suing the school and his tormenting bully for abuse that he suffered in 2004. In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Eric Giray — now a sophomore at Brandeis University — accuses Daniel Dworakowski — now a sophomore at Cornell — of taunting him for years before shoving him into …