Just when I think there's hope for the future, someone comes along and makes me ashamed to be human. Iowa has a law that makes bullying in school illegal. Two Iowa legislators want to change the law so that GLBT students will be excepted from it's protection. The actually want to make it legal to bully GLBT students while leaving the anti-bullying legislation in place for all others. They want to make it legal to bully GLBT students in school. It boggles the mind.
Read more about it in this article.
The article contains contact information if you want to e-mail the two homophobic idiots yourself. ( My letter to the idiots )
I decided to write my letter from the POV that "bullying is bad" without even bringing "le gay" into it. Perhaps they'll be less knee-jerk "Oh, it's written by one of them, so I can ignore it." Besides, I'd write the same letter if it were any minority group they were approving bullying for.
They're in favor of bullying, and people actually voted for them! It really, really, boggles the mind.
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Read more about it in this article.
The article contains contact information if you want to e-mail the two homophobic idiots yourself. ( My letter to the idiots )
I decided to write my letter from the POV that "bullying is bad" without even bringing "le gay" into it. Perhaps they'll be less knee-jerk "Oh, it's written by one of them, so I can ignore it." Besides, I'd write the same letter if it were any minority group they were approving bullying for.
They're in favor of bullying, and people actually voted for them! It really, really, boggles the mind.
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