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Remember the Pennsylvania school district that issued its students laptops and then remotely activated the machines’ webcams to spy on its students in their homes? They’ve agreed to settle one student’s lawsuit for $610,000. The tracking software came to light when Robbins, a student at the high school, was allegedly called into the assistant principal’s office and accused of taking …

In response to widespread criticism for publishing an anti-gay editorial from Family Research Council head Tony Perkins, the Washington Post has posted a response from the mother of 11 year-old Carl Walker-Hoover, who took his life last year after relentless homophobic bullying. An excerpt: I am a single mother and a devout Christian who had never been involved in advocacy …

City officials in Indianapolis say that a bakery operating on city property may keep its lease despite having refused to serve a student LGBT group. “We never intended for good businesses to be kicked out,” Jackie Nytes, a City-County Council member and ordinance sponsor, told The Indianapolis Star. “We sure never meant for the ordinance to be interpreted that aggressively.” …

Despite Porno Pete’s claim, I never said he had “partnered” with the KKK, I merely made the factually correct observation that both the KKK and LaBarbera believe that students at publicly funded universities should have the right to discriminate in the name of Jeebus. The truth, apparently, hurts. Good.

The life story of Constance McMillan, the lesbian Mississippi high school student who was banned from her prom, will be made into a television movie. One of the rare cases where the bullying led to a happy ending — the story of rural Mississipi lesbian high school student Constance McMillen who successfully sued the local school district for discrimination — …

We can’t wait to hear Focus On The Family’s reaction to THIS. Some schools in Colorado Springs have banned students from wearing crosses and rosaries during school hours outside their clothing. “Certain gangs have adopted crosses and rosaries as their gang symbols,” District 11 spokeswoman Elaine Naleski told the Colorado Springs Gazette. The newspaper reported that Mann Middle School sent …

Rutgers University’s Daily Targum has published an editorial denouncing the media frenzy around the suicide of student Tyler Clementi, arguing that gay activists have turned his death into a “cause based on false pretenses.” It is disappointing that everyone from news to celebrities picked up the story. Actress Brittany Snow and actor Neil Patrick-Harris are just two of the many …

You may recall Jennifer Keeton, the counseling graduate student who refused to treat gays because “homosexuality is immoral and changeable.” Keeton became the darling of the Peter LaBarberas of the haterverse when she sued Augusta State University for requiring that she undergo a remediation course on accepting gays in order to continue her education. Keeton lost that case, but while …

“Youth who embrace homosexuality are at greater risk, because they’ve embraced an unhealthy sexual identity and lifestyle. These alternative sexual identifications or lifestyles deny the reality that we are created male and female. To live or try to live in conflict with how we are made will invariably cause problems, e.g. emotional, psychological and social. Notwithstanding gay activist assertions to …

Excerpted from a single episode of Christian TV’s Jelly Telly.

JMG reader Jeff points us to this satirical website, which reads: Due to the media attention being given to suicides by bullied gay and lesbian youth, we have decided to create a list of straight kids who have been bullied by gays and lesbians until they were driven to take their own lives. Check back later to see if we’ve …

“The religious right points to the suicide rate among gay teenagers — which the religious right works so hard to drive up as evidence that the gay lifestyle is destructive. It’s like intentionally running someone down with your car and then claiming that it isn’t safe to walk the streets. “Which is why I argued that every gay teen suicide …

The Detroit News has issued a correction to yesterday’s story. An assistant attorney general who has attracted national attention for a controversial blog that ridicules and denounces a University of Michigan student leader for his gay advocacy, religious beliefs and character has taken a personal leave following intense public scrutiny, a spokesman for Attorney General Mike Cox said today. Cox …

Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox has reversed his position and suspended Assistant AG Andrew Shirvell (left) after a national media outcry about Shivrell’s cyber-harassment of openly gay University of Michigan student body president Chris Armstrong. The suspension came a day after Cox told CNN he didn’t intend to fire Shirvell, citing civil service rules that protect government employees from being …