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Now that she has submitted a letter to them formally revealing that she is gay, the ROTC may force University of North Carolina senior Sara Isaacson to repay nearly $80,000 in tuition scholarships. Isaacson, 21, said she thought the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy was unfair years before she realized she was a lesbian and realized she had the …

Well, this is pleasantly shocking. In reaction to yesterday’s news that the son of two lesbian moms was denied enrollment at a Catholic school, the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston has issued a letter saying that it will not fund any school with a discriminatory admissions policy. Any such practice “is at odds with our values as a foundation, the intentions …

Once again, a Catholic school has refused to admit a student because he has lesbian parents. A Roman Catholic school in Massachusetts has withdrawn its acceptance of an 8-year-old boy with lesbian parents, saying their relationship was “in discord” with church teachings, according to one of the boys’ mothers. It’s at least the second time in recent months that students …

Whoops, who used to occupy this faculty page for the University of South Carolina? Man overboard! Box Turtle Bulletin’s Timothy Kincaid asks: I’m curious as to the exact criteria for removing any mention of Dr. Rekers. Was it because the University of South Carolina was delighted to have an anti-gay activist as a respected and privileged emeritus professor, but not …

Three Washington DC teenagers have been charged in the murder of popular and openly gay high school principal Brian Betts. According to police, Betts was set up for an attack after speaking to one or more of the suspects on a phone sex chat line. Sharif Tau Lancaster and Alante Saunders, both 18, were charged with murder, robbery and a …

Seton Hall is preparing to offer a course on same-sex marriage and Newark Archbishop John Myers isn’t having it. “This proposed course seeks to promote as legitimate a train of thought that is contrary to what the Church teaches. As a result, the course is not in synch with Catholic teaching,” Myers said. “Consequently, the board of trustees of Seton …

Some folks are at mad at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University because Glenn Beck, a Mormon, has been chosen as their commencement speaker. Steve McConkey, founder of the apologetics ministry 4 Winds, believes the university is sending a dangerous message by allowing Beck to speak at the ceremony. “We believe that…Christians, at supposedly the largest evangelical university in the United States…should …

The Arizona Department of Education has begun telling schools that must remove teachers whose English is heavily accented or ungrammatical if they are teaching students who are still learning English themselves. State education officials say the move is intended to ensure that students with limited English have teachers who speak the language flawlessly. But some school principals and administrators say …

Anti-bullying bills passed yesterday in both Massachusetts and Georgia! Both bills passed unanimously.Massachusetts: Invoking the suicides of Phoebe Prince and Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, lawmakers unanimously approved a sweeping measure to crack down on school bullying, saying its strict requirements for reporting student harassment make it one of the nation’s toughest. Yesterday’s legislation emerged with broad prohibitions against any actions that …

Saying there is not enough evidence to support felony charges, a judge in Kentucky has reduced the attempted murder charges against two teenage girls who have been accused of trying to throw a lesbian classmate off a cliff. After a hearing Thursday, District Judge Henria Bailey-Lewis reduced the charges against Ashley Sams and Corinne Schwab to fourth-degree assault and menacing, …

A Vancouver music teacher says she was fired after co-workers at her Catholic school learned that she and her lesbian partner had just had a baby. Lisa Reimer said Wednesday her music classes were cancelled and she was told to work from home marking papers until her one-year temporary employment contract with Little Flower Academy expires in June. She said …

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)

(Via – Library & Information Science News)

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …