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Free Republic and similar sites are going ballistic over the news that a Fort Worth high school student was suspended for telling another student that he believes that “homosexuality is wrong.”

In observance of this month’s Banned Books Week, Focus On The Family is asking its members to donate anti-gay books to public school libraries. Want a creative way for your family to act as the “salt and light” in your local community? Consider this idea for a family project: Donate books to your neighborhood and school libraries that communicate a …

From Richard Dawkins.

JMG reader Marc reports that anti-gay groups are collecting SB 48 repeal signatures at the Los Angeles County Fair, which hosts its first-ever Gay Day today. Skip the fancy brunch in WeHo and go have some corn dogs, Bachmann-style!

Calling it an act of “cultural cleansing,” some Christian activists are furious that Australia’s schools have decided to drop the abbreviations “BC” and “AD” from textbooks. Via the Christian Institute: The curriculum will replace BC (Before Christ) with BCE (Before Common Era). And AD (Anno Domini – which means ‘in the year of our Lord’) will be replaced with CE …

With all this anti-Christian oppression, only the Liberty Counsel can legally reinstate Jesus to his rightful place as the focal point of all public schools.

The Friendly Atheist reports that numerous Christian brainwashing titles were openly hawked to defenseless elementary school students at a public school book fair in Wichita, Kansas. Parents were not advised in advance of this flagrant indoctrination attempt and were given no chance to opt-out of this pro-Christian agenda. In fact, no other religions were even allowed to have table space …

A new message from the Courage Campaign calls for help in fighting the repeal of California’s LGBT history bill.

“Any day of the week starting in January, children as young as kindergarten will be told that a homosexual, a bisexual, or even a cross-dresser or someone who has had healthy body parts in a sex-change operation cut off — that this is a positive role model. They’re not going to be told that it’s unhealthy. They’re not going to …

“The Constitution does not specifically enumerate nor does it give to the federal government the role and duty to superintend over education. That historically has been held by the parents and by local communities and by state government. To put that into the federal government as we saw a Department of Education in the late 1970s has eviscerated the constitutional …

The head of Equality California this week predicted that our side will lose, should the attempt to repeal SB 48 make it onto the ballot. The good news is, the other side faces a tough time making the ballot deadline, largely because the Mormon and Catholic groups that backed Prop 8 have stayed out of this one so far. “If …

The new head of Equality California says that the prospect of thwarting a repeal of the LGBT education bill does not look good. It may not be what the LGBT community wants to hear, but Equality California Executive Director Roland Palencia was quite blunt on a conference call with reporters last week when he acknowledged that should the referendum to …

(Tipped by JMG reader Brandy)

Eagle-eyed JMG readers have picked up that Orlando’s WFTV-ABC has edited their original story about public school teacher Jerry Buell. The station’s earlier claim that the KKK had threatened to picket the Lake County School Board has vanished. As WFTV was the source for several JMG posts on that issue and since no other news outlet appears to be making …

After being suspended for posting anti-gay comments on his Facebook page, last week Florida teacher Jerry Buell was reinstated when the KKK threatened to picket the local school board in his defense. The defiant Buell said that he did not intend to change his teaching philosophy, which includes speaking “as if Lake County had hired Jesus Christ himself.” Today Equality …

Months after sweeping into power in the state legislature, Indiana’s teabaggers instituted the nation’s strongest school voucher system, which allows parents to use taxpayers’ money to pay the tuition for private Christian schools. And things are turning out exactly like you’d expect. Weeks after Indiana began the nation’s broadest school voucher program, thousands of students have transferred from public to …

Shortly after the below school board meeting, teacher Jerry Buell was reinstated. The KKK had threatened to picket the school board if Buell didn’t return to his classroom.

This is the second clip by the FRC on this topic today.