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Citing the recent spate of suicides among LGBT youth, the “ex-gays” at Exodus International announced yesterday that they were ending their opposition to the Day Of Silence, an annual student-led protest of the bullying of queer kids. “All the recent attention to bullying helped us realize that we need to equip kids to live out biblical tolerance and grace while …

“As Rahm Emanuel famously said: ‘You never let a serious crisis go to waste. It’s an opportunity to do things you could not do before.’ It makes me physically ill to watch as the HRC and other ‘gay’ militants lick their chops and rub their hands together over the tragic suicides of these troubled, sexually confused young men. Before they …

“To the angry folks: I admit that IGBP doesn’t do the impossible. It doesn’t solve the problem of anti-gay bullying, everywhere, all at once, forever. The point of the videos is to give despairing kids in impossible situations a little thing called hope. The point is to let them know that things do get better. For some people things get …

At almost the moment that Dan Savage shared his idea for helping LGBT youth, I began pondering the inevitable backlash from the queer theorists who relish attacking any project (no matter how innovative, effective, or sincere) merely because it came from a member of the “patriarchal ageist classist gay white cis-male privileged ruling class.” I’ve read a few such predictable …

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 …

“In some young lives come the bullies. They are a part of life, especially for boys. But for the young person with same-sex attractions, this is the final straw where they feel totally trapped, with internal feelings they have been carefully taught ‘cannot be changed’ on the one hand, and harsh peer rejection on the other. Yes, it looks hopeless …

I’ll probably lay off the celebrity clips a bit after this, but this one from Project Runway’s Tim Gunn relates his actual suicide attempt at the age of 17.

“The religious right is seeing the fruit of their efforts: DEAD CHILDREN.” Watch every second of this. Dan says to gay kids: “Don’t believe the lies of the bigoted children of bigoted adults.”

“Learning about the suicide deaths of Tyler Clementi, Seth Walsh, Asher Brown, Billy Lucas and Justin Aaberg has been heartbreaking for me. These young people were bullied and tormented by people that should have been their friends. We have a responsibility to be better to each other, and accept each others’ differences regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, race, ability, …

Last night CNN’s Larry King hosted Nate Berkus, Tim Gunn, Wanda Sykes, Kathy Griffin and Lance Bass for an extended discussion on bullying and gay teen suicide. Bass revealed that he used to bully gay kids himself in order to provide cover to his own sexuality.

“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 …

“Words have consequences, particularly when they come from a faith leader. This is exactly the kind of statement that can lead some kids to bully and others to commit suicide. When a faith leader tells gay people that they are a mistake because God would never have made them that way and they don’t deserve love, it sends a very …

Using quotes from Maggie Gallagher, Theodore “Vox Day” Beale, and Sen. Jim DeMint, Box Turtle Bulletin contributor Rob Tisinai created the above Christianist hate flow-chart. Hit the link for Rob’s post.