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“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 …

According to a report on Emirates 24/7, Saudi Arabia has banned gay boys and “tom boys” from attending government schools and universities. The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the most feared law enforcement authority in the oil-rich country, has been asked to enforce the new orders, Sharq Arabic language daily said. “Instructions have been issued …

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 …

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 …

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)

In a move that is backed by the Louisiana Family Council, a state Senate committee has approved a GOP bill that would make it legal for charter schools to refuse admittance to gay children. The bill also authorizes schools to turn away students with poor English skills and with physical challenges. Charter schools are private institutions contracted by the state …

Knowing that they’d be eligible to vote in November, the administrators of a Minnesota Catholic high school held a seniors-only assembly in order to indoctrinate the entire class against same-sex marriage. The reaction of the students was unexpected. “The first three-quarters of the presentation were really good,” said senior Matt Bliss. “They talked about what is marriage and how marriage …

Linda Harvey of Mission America, a 2012 inductee onto the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of hate groups, has posted a World Net Daily column titled: “Ten Reasons To Walk Out On The ‘Day Of Silence.'” It begins: 1. A silent protest in support of immoral, God-dishonoring behavior is in itself profoundly deceptive. All sexual behavior outside man/woman marriage is …

Remember two years ago when Arizona banned ethnic studies in public schools? The same racist douchebag behind that move wants to expand the ban to state universities. An Arizona official who led the effort to suspend Mexican American studies from Tucson public schools is considering taking his fight to the state university system. Arizona’s superintendent of schools, John Huppenthal, says …

The NYC Department of Education is raising eyebrows after issuing a list of 50 words it plans to strike from standardized tests because they are “distracting to segments of the city’s diverse student population.” Such tests have been criticized over the years for using word problems that are alien to impoverished children, such as questions about silverware settings at the …

The Tennessee Senate has approved a bill that will allow teachers to advocate for creationism and against climate change. The bill’s wording is couched in terms of “protecting the right to open discussion.” Senators voted 24-8 to pass a bill that says schoolteachers cannot be punished for “helping students to understand, analyze, critique and review in an objective manner the …

As they’ve done the last few years, Focus On The Family has launched their campaign to thwart the nation’s largest in-school campaign to bring attention to anti-gay bullying, the Day Of Silence. This year Focus is telling kids to download a “conversation card,” which they can hand out to gay kids to let them know that they are are doomed …

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The U.S. Supreme Court today refused to hear an appeal of a lower court’s ruling that Christian student clubs cannot bar LGBT people from membership. The justices on Monday are leaving in place a federal appeals court ruling that found that the policy doesn’t violate the Constitution. The policy says officially recognized campus groups can’t discriminate based on religion or …

Not only does GOProud oppose a federal anti-bullying law, they are cloaking their support for school vouchers by claiming it would protect gay kids. In fact, what GOProud really wants is to further erode the crumbling public education system by having the government redirect funds to private religious schools. Or as in the case of the Santorums, pay the parents …

Score another ACLU victory in Missouri A U.S. district judge issued a preliminary injunction banning the use of filtering software by the Camdenton R-III School District. The American Civil Liberties Union had filed a lawsuit against the district, claiming it was deliberately restricting access to homosexual-themed websites while still allowing students to view what it describes as “anti-LGBT sites that …

Republicans in the Kentucky House Education Committee today squashed an anti-bullying bill because it would help prevent gay children from killing themselves. The vote came after parents and friends of teenagers who killed themselves to end incessant school bullying told lawmakers about the need for stronger protections for all students. Several lawmakers on the panel contended that existing anti-bullying laws …

The state of Florida has ruled that public school teacher Shawn Loftis was wrongly fired last year after his second career as a porn actor was exposed. Loftis — who starred in gay porn films under the name Collin O’Neil — was teaching at Nautilus Middle School when the principal learned of his past, according to WPLG 10 News. The …

Randy Thomasson, of the newly certified hate group Save California, says children are already being brainwashed and SB48 hasn’t even been implemented yet. “In an apparent attempt to keep children enrolled for the purpose of sexual indoctrination and average daily attendance funding, the California Department of Education is deceiving parents about the mandate of SB 48, which requires, through supplement …