Posted on 07/26/2011 6:03:10 AM PDT by massmike
The first was TJ. Then came Samantha, Aaron, Nick, and Kevin. Over the past two years, a total of nine teenagers have committed suicide in a Minnesota school district represented by Rep. Michele Bachmann—the latest in May—and many more students have attempted to take their lives. State public health officials have labeled the area a "suicide contagion area" because of the unusually high death rate.
Some of the victims were gay, or perceived to be by their classmates, and many were reportedly bullied. And the anti-gay activists who are some of the congresswoman's closest allies stand accused of blocking an effective response to the crisis and fostering a climate of intolerance that allowed bullying to flourish. Bachmann, meanwhile, has been uncharacteristically silent on the tragic deaths that have roiled her district—including the high school that she attended.
Bachmann, who began her political career as an education activist, has described gay rights as an "earthquake issue," and she and her allies have made public schools the front lines of their fight against the "homosexual agenda." They have opposed efforts in the state to promote tolerance for gays and lesbians in the classroom, seeing such initiatives as a way of allowing gays to recruit impressionable youths into an unhealthy and un-Christian lifestyle.
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Liberals can be the most despicable people on the planet sometimes.
Only 9? Our county of about 200,000 has had nearly 70 this year alone. Highest suicide rate in the nation. Our excuse is a lazy Coroner. Any overdose, any unwitnessed violent death including single car accidents have been ruled suicides.
How are the statistics for poverty and crime in Zero’s district?
Libs just keep on showing how scrambled their brains are.
Major effort under way to fight child pornography in Illinois
It’s like a doctor being neutral about sickness and health. Either’s okay???
Sexuality under the dual influence of teenage hormones and emotional immaturity is all over the place, it is chaos to those experiencing it. The kids need clear guidelines as to what is healthy and what is not. Healthy at and individual level, and also just as important, healthy at a society-wide level.
Homosexuality is unhealthy at both levels. And just like at times we are more prone to being sick, our immune systems are weaker, the same thing applies to sexuality. Just as vibrant healthy societies encourage for health things like cleanliness, exercise, optimism, healthy lifestyles, family formation, protection of marriage and birth within marriage, so too do vibrant healthy societies encourage proper and modest sexual behaviors.
Of course a person gets weak and prone to sickness at times, and of course that applies in sexuality too. When a person is weakened we take extra effort to protect them from exposure to germs, and we advise rest and attention.
The same thing must apply to bringing kids through the high hormonal era of the teens and young adulthood with regards to sexuality.
But the modern culture does two things at once, and both make the sexuality sickened much worse. One is the modern cultural fad especially among elite and educators to take the sexuality weakened and amp up their exposure to sexuality in the name helping them better identify with the sickness, not to offer relief from the extreme symptoms felt by the emotionally immature high-active-hormone young adult.
The second thing is the counter-action in the peer group, the bullying. The peer group bullying against the sexuality confusions included those added by and amped up by the cultural elite is fierce. Nature tries to protect itself.
The target of the counter reaction is the weakened. The target of the elite’s misanthrophic policies are the weak. So what to higher percentages of the weak do? Higher suicides are to be expected.
Late note: And by sexuality I mean all sexuality, don’t focus so much on homosexuality, the proper focus is upon
teaching proper sexual behaviors, primarily that means personal modesty, secondarily encouraging family formation and marriage as the proper location for actual sex.
Proper sexual modesty is not just dress, it is stance, approach to others, speech, vision control. How to gracefully and effectively deal with public immodesty when encountered.
Mother Jones is one of the predominant Commie-pinko rags that rarely gets noticed...
I think these kids are off-ing themselves because AL FRANKEN stole the Minn senatorial election...
I would too.
Imagine that!
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It’s the liberal way.......
How horrible that nine kids have taken their lives.
Too bad the Left will butt bait it the problem as usual.
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