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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 …

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 …

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 …

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,” …

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 …

A Mississippi blog is claiming that the alternative prom attended by Constance McMillen was a decoy and that the “real” event was secretly moved to another location. According to the below report, only seven kids showed up at the event Constance was told was the real deal. The prom the school district promised at the country club in Fulton was …

The ACLU has declined a $20,000 donation from the American Humanist Association which the group offered to fund an alternative prom open to all students, including lesbian teen Constance McMillen, whose story made international news after her school canceled its prom rather than allow Constance to attend with a female date. “Although we support and understand organizations like yours, the …

Concerned Women For America have issued an endorsement of the plan for Christian children to walk out of school during GLSEN’s Day Of Silence. The pro-homosexual “Day of Silence” (DOS) is coming to your child’s school again. The nationally scheduled date is April 16, 2010. While wearing the mask of a “safe schools” program, this is actually a movement to …

This made me tear up a little. (Via – AmericaBlog)

Cochran, Georgia – home to gay teen Derrick Martin, used to be known as Dykesboro for its founder, B.B. Dykes. Maybe that’s why Cochran is so touchy about being known as a “pro-gay town.”

And the censors win. Last night Tarleton State University of Texas issued this brief press release: The four student-directed plays, including “Corpus Christi,” scheduled to be performed at Tarleton State University on Saturday, March 27, 2010, have been canceled this evening by the professor. The professor cited safety and security concerns for the students as well as the need to …

While Derrick Martin’s high school has grudgingly admitted that they had no rule in place to block him from bringing his boyfriend to the prom, some of his fellow students still don’t want him there. In fact, they’ve held an anti-Derrick rally. The rally’s organizer, Amber Duskin, sent text messages to high school students Wednesday asking them to show up. …

Merely moving the single performance of Terrance McNally’s Corpus Cristi to the ungodly (heh) hour of 8:00am wasn’t good enough for the censorious students of Tarleton State in Texas. Via Christian Newswire: Thousands of Catholic students and concerned parents are calling for the cancellation of a blasphemous play at Tarleton State University in Texas. The offensive production Corpus Christi portrays …

Dan Savage reports that the same Mississippi high school that canceled Constance McMillen’s prom also kicked out a trans student on his first day. Juin Baize was a student at Itawamba Agricultural—for a grand total of four hours. Baize, his mother, and his two sisters moved to Fulton, Mississippi, from New Harmony, Indiana, to live with Baize’s grandmother at the …

After receiving threats from the local Christian community, a college performance of Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi has been moved to 8:00. In the morning. Security concerns prompted Tarleton State University to change the start time and limit the audience of a play in which Jesus is portrayed as gay. The production called “Corpus Christi” was to be performed, at the …

Only yesterday we were cheering the news that Derrick Martin’s Georgia high school had approved his request to bring a male date to the prom. But now his parents have kicked him out of the house. Derrick is staying with a friend for now, but has been getting kind messages of support from the LGBT community. Many gay-rights activists are …

Syracuse University will now pay LGBT employees a $1000 bonus to defray the tax penalty of having their partners on their insurance. Syracuse University has adopted a policy — possibly the first in higher education — of paying $1,000 each to its gay and lesbian employees who use the university’s domestic partner program to provide health insurance for their partners. …

After a near riotous protest by thousands of University of Ottawa students angered by a racist remark Ann Coulter made yesterday an Ontario college, security officials canceled her speech at the school tonight. A spokesman for the group that organized the event said there were fears for Coulter’s well-being after about two thousand people gathered outside the venue to protest …

A judge in Mississippi has ruled that Constance McMillen’s school violated her rights when they canceled her prom rather than let her attend. But he won’t force the school to reinstate the event. U.S. District Judge Glen H. Davidson denied the ACLU’s request for a preliminary injunction. He said he’ll still hold a trial, but he did not set a …