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How To Ruin Graduation

1. Turn your student invocation into an attack on the “worship of the intellectual mind” which is what everybody present is celebrating, really.2. Go on for a long, droning, unbearable time.3. Finish with a sobbing seizure in the the blood of the lamb.4. Force call for ambulance over public address system.5. Christianity jackpot! (Tipped by JMG reader Michael)

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Coming To A School Near You

(Via – Library & Information Science News)

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KENTUCKY: Defense Lawyers Claim Murder Attempt Was Staged Prank

Lawyers for the three Kentucky girls charged with attempting to murder a lesbian classmate are claiming that the entire incident was a staged prank with the full participation of the victim. Cheyenne Williams, 18, and supporters have said that on April 16, three girls with whom she’d been friends for years took her against her will to picturesque Flat Lick …

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Catholic Group Continues To Peddle Fake Pediatricians Group

Remember two weeks back when the anti-gay American College of Pediatricians was exposed as a fake group invented by Christianists to spread lies about LGBT families to the nation’s teachers? Well, that hasn’t stopped the Catholic News Agency from creating the below lie-filled clip. The ACP is comprised of a dozen or so doctors affiliated with NARTH, the most notoriously …

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Tweet Of The Week – GLSEN

Some excellent news to close out a mostly crummy week. Congratulations to GLSEN and their fellow advocates for LGBT youth! UPDATE: GLSEN executive director Eliza Byard writes: “Thank you so much for the shout out for GLSEN! However, the real champions on that legislation are Shannon Sullivan and the Illinois Safe Schools Alliance, our amazing friends and partners in this …

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Westboro Baptist Church To Picket Constance McMillen’s Graduation

Westboro Baptist Church has announced on their website (NFSW) that they will be picketing the graduation ceremony of Constance McMillen’s high school in Mississippi. WBC will picket the graduation of Itawamba Agricultural High School to remind the parents, teachers and students of this nation that God said “Thou shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind, it is abomination.” Leviticus …

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Tonight: Protest At Ohio’s Miami University After Assault At Gay Fundraiser

Miami University junior Ben Collings says he and his boyfriend were assaulted after objecting to anti-gay comments he heard while attending a Gay/Straight Alliance fundraiser held at an off campus bar. Police are saying Collings initiated the fight. Collings said that when he was in the restroom, he overheard others using derogatory words for homosexuals. Things got heated after that, …

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Day Of Anti-Gay Truth: Three Kentucky Girls Charged With Kidnapping And Attempted Murder Of Lesbian Classmate

Three high school girls in Kentucky have been charged with kidnapping and attempting to murder an openly lesbian classmate by pushing her off of a cliff. The attack took place on the Day Of Silence, which some students at the school observed as the anti-gay Day Of Truth, as instructed by Christian hate groups. Cheyenne Williams, 18, of McKee, signed …

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ACLU Sues Over Decoy Prom

The ACLU has amended their lawsuit against lesbian teen Constance McMillan’s Mississippi school district to include charges of conspiring with parents to lure Constance to a “decoy prom” while most students attended a much larger event in another town. Via press release: On March 23, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi issued a preliminary ruling in …

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Photo Of The Day – Prom Night For Derrick

Without incident, this weekend openly gay teen Derrick Martin (right) and his date Richard Goodman attended Derrick’s senior prom in Cochran, Georgia. About 7:45 p.m., couples started to arrive at the high school in a line of stretch limos, a bus, a John Deere tractor and even carriage and buggy, and afterward walked through a crowd of parents and friends …

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SCOTUS To Hear Case Of Gays Barred From Christian Club At California Law School

The Supreme Court will hear the case of gay students who were barred from joining a club at the University of California’s Hastings College Of The Law in San Francisco. The college, which requires officially recognized student groups to admit any Hastings student who wants to join, may be well-meaning, says the student outpost of the Christian Legal Society. But …

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Big Brother: School Took Thousands Of Photos Inside Students’ Homes

Remember the Pennsylvania high school accused of spying on its students via their their laptop webcams? Student Blake Robbins says Lower Merion School District officials secretly activated the webcams and captured him sleeping in bed and partly undressed. They say the school also took screen shots of instant messages he exchanged with friends. And his lawyer says they have evidence …

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AGAIN: Threat Cancels Gay Jesus Play

After death threats caused Tarleton University to cancel their single 8am performance of Terrance McNally’s Corpus Cristi, a local Texas theater offered to host the student production. Now that venue has rescinded their invitation, citing a threat made to them too. The board of directors of Artes de la Rosa, which runs The Rose Marine Theater on North Main Street, …

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PFOX: Give Our Flier Out At Day Of Silence

“Ex-gay” group PFOX wants their anti-gay flier given out at any school that participates in GLSEN’s Day Of Silence this Friday. Their flier (PDF) reads in part: Every year thousands of people with unwanted same-sex attractions make the personal decision to leave a gay identity through non-judgmental environments. Their decision is one only they can make. However, there are those …

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Marching Orders

Anti-gay groups are issuing their final directions for Christian students to walk out of any school that participates in this year’s GLSEN Day Of Silence next Friday. The below is a joint message to parents from evil twin vipers Laurie Higgins (Illinois Family Institute) and Linda Harvey (Mission America). Explain to your children why you’re taking a stand:a. Homosexual behavior …

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Anti-Gay Liberty Counsel Peddles Fake Anti-Gay Pediatricians Group

The Liberty Counsel has issued an alert that the so-called American College of Pediatricians has sent a warning to the nation’s educators to be on the lookout for students “experiencing same-sex attraction or gender confusion.” The letter reminds school superintendents that it is not uncommon for adolescents to experience transient confusion about their sexual orientation and that most students will …

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50 Most Stressful Colleges

The Daily Beast has ranked the 50 most stressful colleges using a weighted system examining tuition costs, campus crimes, acceptance rates and other factors. Stanford tops the list. 1. Stanford2. Columbia3. MIT4. University of Pennsylvania5. Harvard6. Princeton7. Vanderbilt8. Carnegie Mellon9. California Institute of Technology10. Northwestern Hit the link for the rest of the list, which includes much of the University …

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Remembering Carl Walker-Hoover

It was one year ago that 11 year-old Carl Walker-Hoover hung himself in his bedroom closet after being relentlessly tormented by anti-gay bullies at his school. GLSEN requests that you honor Carl today by signing their petition that Congress pass the Safe School Environments Act, a federal bill that would provide funding for schools to prevent and respond to incidents …

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Students To Wear Empty Holsters In Protest Of Rules Against Concealed Carry

Because it’s the God-given right of every American college student to bring a loaded handgun to class, the Students For Concealed Carry On Campus are staging a national protest during which they’ll wear empty holsters to school. The group claims that school won’t even allow them to discuss the issue. “Colleges aren’t content to ban the right to self-defense anymore,” …

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DC’s Gallaudet Plans Gay Jesus Play

DC’s Gallaudet University is the latest school under attack for planning a performance of Terrance McNally’s Corpus Cristi. Last week an 8am private performance of the play was canceled at Tarleton University in Texas after death threats rained in from God’s gentle people. Fresh from their intimidation campaign in Texas, the red-caped Catholic loons known as the American Society for …

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