Tag Archives: education

Linda Harvey: Protecting LGBT Students From Beatings Is Fascist

Linda Harvey at Mission America is screaming about Rep. Jared Polis’ federal bill to protect LGBT students from bullying and assault. Because beating the gay out of kids is the Christian way. The purpose of this bill is not what is being stated, but is quite simply to mandate in public schools one acceptable viewpoint on the issue of homosexuality, …

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ACLU Demands California Professor Stop Teaching Anti-Gay Health Lies

The ACLU has sent a letter to Fresno City College demanding that health professor Dr. Bradley Lopez stop teaching anti-gay lies to his students. The ACLU letter includes several examples of Professor Lopez teaching sectarian views and personal bias as “fact.” In recent lectures, Professor Lopez: * Presented a slide listing “homosexual facts,” including that homosexuality is a “biological misapplication …

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Teacher Ties Boy’s Hair Into Pigtails, Encourages Class To Mock Him As A Girl

An Ohio woman has filed a federal lawsuit against her son’s elementary school after his teacher mocked his long hair by tying it into pigtails. According to the suit, the teacher then brought the boy to the front of the class and encouraged his classmates to mock him with feminine versions of his name. Allegedly, the teacher finished by taking …

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“Ex-Gay” Fliers Distributed At Maryland High Schools

Due to a 2006 lawsuit, some Maryland high schools have been forced to allow the distribution of “ex-gay” fliers by PFOX. Some Montgomery County high schools passed out fliers this week from an organization that contends gays can become heterosexual through therapy, and the schools say they cannot prevent the use of their distribution system by such groups. The fliers, …

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Students At Jesuit School Shut Down Basketball Game Over LGBT Rights

As the band played Hot Stuff, students at John Carroll University occupied center court during a basketball game to protest the school’s decision to exclude LGBT people from its non-discrimination policy.

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School Pulls Filthy Anne Frank Diary

A school system in Virginia has pulled a revised version of The Diary Of Anne Frank after a Christian parent complained about the book’s inclusion of previously redacted bits about homosexuality. Culpeper County public school officials have decided to stop assigning a version of Anne Frank’s diary, one of the most enduring symbols of the atrocities of the Nazi regime, …

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Notre Dame Students Protest For More Inclusive LGBT Policies

Spurred by the recent anti-gay cartoon published in the student newspaper, yesterday a large group of Notre Dame students rallied at the school’s administration building to demand that the school president accept a letter calling for a more inclusive and welcoming campus environment for LGBT students.

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Today In Wingnuttery

A California school district has pulled all the dictionaries from its libraries after a parent complained that a student was able to look up the definition of “oral sex.” School officials will review the dictionary to decide if it should be permanently banned because of the “sexually graphic” entry, said district spokeswoman Betti Cadmus. The dictionaries were initially purchased a …

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Colorado Students Protest Phelps Family

But the Phelps didn’t show. Via the University of Colorado’s Daily Camera: Hundreds of University of Colorado students gathered around the Dalton Trumbo Fountain on Monday night in a show of support for gay rights. The demonstration came before a same-sex marriage debate on the CU campus organized by the Aquinas Institute for Catholic Thought. “I want to promote love …

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Federal Court: No College Credit For High School Creationism Courses

A federal court has ruled that the University of California does not have to certify Christian high schools that teach creationism and other dumbass ideas. Calvary Chapel Christian School in Murrieta, Calif., and the Association of Christian Schools International claimed the university’s review policy was unconstitutional because it refused to certify courses that taught creationism and other beliefs. “The district …

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Notre Dame Editor Resigns

The editor of Notre Dame’s student newspaper, Kara King, has resigned in the wake of an anti-gay cartoon published last week. King resigned in a letter published in the paper Monday. In the letter, she wrote, “A miscommunication between another editor and myself led to the comic running without me first reading and approving the material. Regardless, no excuse can …

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Anti-Gay Cartoon Runs In Notre Dame Student Newspaper, Editor Apologizes

The editor of Notre Dame’s student newspaper has issued an apology for a viciously anti-gay cartoon that ran in this week’s edition. “What’s the quickest way to turn a fruit into a vegetable?” A baseball bat. The punchline in the cartoon was originally going to be “AIDS,” but the artist “didn’t want to make fun of fatal diseases.” GLAAD is …

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Yale Drops “Sissy” Shirts

To stoke up student fervor for their annual football game with arch rival Harvard, Yale students voted to sell a t-shirt using a quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald: “I think of all Harvard men as sissies.” On the back, the students added: “WE AGREE.” But after complaints from a campus LGBT group, the shirt has been dropped. The LGBT Co-op …

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Shorewood Lip Dub

Shorewood High School was challenged by a rival school to a lipsyncing contest, resulting the below video which was performed to music playing backwards. As the kids walked backwards. I think. I’m a little confused how they did it. Amazing. (Via – Slog)

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Scholarship Opportunity For Philadelphia’s Young Gay Men

If you are a young openly gay man in the Philly metropolitan area, tuition scholarships are available. The Lax Scholarship Fund was established in 1994 by the late entrepreneur and inventor Jonathan R. Lax for the purpose of encouraging gay men to obtain additional education; aspiring to positions in which they contribute to society; being out about their sexual orientation; …

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CA: Alameda County Pulls Anti-Bullying Program Under Threats From Christianists

Score one for the Christianists that endorse the beating and taunting of LGBT students. The school board blinked. Under the duress of a lawsuit and threats of recall, the Alameda Board of Education has voted to phase out an elementary school curriculum it adopted in May to prevent anti-gay bullying. The so-called Lesson 9, which had become an opposition centerpiece …

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Hot For Teacher

NYC’s tabloids will have a field day with this for awhile. Two female Romance language instructors were tossed out of their Brooklyn high school after being caught “undressed” in an empty classroom, sources told the Daily News Tuesday. Students at James Madison High School in Midwood were watching a talent show in the auditorium while Alini Brito and Cindy Mauro …

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SCOTUS To Decide Case Of LGBT Students Excluded From Christian Group

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of LGBT students barred from membership in a college Christian group. The Christian Legal Society had appealed a lower court’s decision to uphold a California university’s denial of recognition over anti-gay discrimination. The case could set new rules for campus groups that receive funding through fees paid by the students. The …

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Photo Of The Day

Students at Yale really know how to handle wingnut street preachers, don’t they?

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Tweet Of The Day

Via NOM’s blog: DC Councilman Tommy Wells — who not that long ago actually supported school vouchers — has just written an open letter to Senate subcommittee Chairman Dick Durbin strongly opposing the reauthorization of the DC school voucher program this year. Why? Because some of the kids in the program use the vouchers to attend Catholic schools, and the …

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