Gay teens seek support and safety

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | May 8, 2005 | Charles Yoo

[StonyBurk]

I like Samuel Clemmons view on raisig children-- shove them in a barrel and nail the lid shut -feed and water them through a hole -until they get about 20 or so -then let 'em out.

[Nathan Zachary]

"A year and half ago, White County High School student Abby Farrar told a friend she had a crush on a classmate --- a girl.

And by doing so, she victimized this girl. She caused her embarasment, and probably a feeling of being stocked, a subject of someones sick fantasies of performing lewid sexual acts, which may be against HER beliefs, and how she was born.(normal) The abnormal who is sick and needs help, cries "victim", and a hoard of imoral sinners decend on an otherwize peaceful town and slander it.

[longtermmemmory]

Thinking equals responsibility.

Actually if you really want to take it to an extreme.

Thanks to hate crime (thought crime laws) and the constant PC double speak, Thinking equals LIABILITY in the courts.

Fear is strength, and all those other orwellian mottos.

[StonyBurk]

cannabalism is ok today as it seems practiced by homosexuals most often let the eat each other for their last meal.

[SupplySider]

White County Public Schools Superintendent Paul Shaw opposes the club, which has met twice and so far has fewer than 10 members, because he believes that an organization based on sexuality does not belong in a high school.

At least one bit of common sense from an adult involved in this.

This is a sex club. In high school! It is not for teens interested in friendships with members of the same sex. It is for teens practicing or wanting to practice certain specific sex acts. Why not form a club for teen age boys wanting to make out with girls?

[No Dems 2004]

A one-sided story, indeed. Read between the lines, though, and you'll see this as one of the only sentences that made any sense:

"Shaw acknowledges bullying incidents and says that they are being investigated, but he isn't convinced that all gay students are victims. "They have strong personalities as well" and invite trouble, too, he said."

Ah, gays asking for trouble??? After all, they're PROUD of being something they should be ashamed of. It's amazing, though, to think that queers will go through all the harrassment just so they can remain el disgusto. Why not just be normal and good? The gays are totally deluded.

[grellis]

How about a support club for straight students? Like a teenage dating service? Would the school think that was okay? I worked last night so my logic switch is off, but I recall a sizeable handful of gals I went to high school with who were known to be "easy." Their extracurricular activities brought them a helluva lot of name-calling and taunting and ostracization.

Oddly enough, they didn't seem to need a support group. I wonder what that acronym would be? Students Living Under The Sheets? No, that name would never fly. Too much truth in it.

[MilspecRob]

College is an extreme waste of time and money for most kids - unless they're pursuing the type of advanced education that requires that kind of technical background - medicine, engineering, etc.

So a world devoid of Historians, Writers, Artists (all sorts), Philosophers, Anthropologist, Linguists, etc, etc, is a good world to live in? Education really is more that just a job.

[BibChr]

LOL, and Whoa!

Dan
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[starfish923]

I absolutely agree with you. Most of high school is a complete waste of time - kids should go to trade school if they're not going on to college. College is an extreme waste of time and money for most kids - unless they're pursuing the type of advanced education that requires that kind of technical background - medicine, engineering, etc.

As far as this girl goes, the answer here is to teach these children to treat each other with respect even if they disagree. There is no excuse for bullying, unkindness or rudeness in school. If kids were taught how to act properly there would be no need of these clubs (which should be outside of the school anyway).

[starfish923]

I like Samuel Clemmons view on raisig children-- shove them in a barrel and nail the lid shut -feed and water them through a hole -until they get about 20 or so -then let 'em out.

Good one.
I always advocated sending teenagers (13-19) to isolated mountains or islands, having them work from dawn til drop, teaching them nothing but the ethic of hard work.
When 20 they may return to civilization.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"Abby is a gay teenager in this postcard sliver of the Appalachian Mountains..."

"The only things missing were the banjoes."

And probably a few teeth! :D

[DBeers]

ping.

[grellis]

Okay, so the acronym is a little over the top...but not really. Whatever student Pacer and her pals want to call their club, its very foundation was a "gay-straight alliance." I can almost live with that--the name, at least, because it is more honest about the club's mission: the normalization of abnormal sexuality. That is the mission of the club. I don't for a second buy any of that "anti-bullying" nonsense. All teens deal with bullying--all of them! Cheerleaders pick on each other when one of them gets a bad acne breakout, or when a "monthly bill" comes early. Jocks pick on each other. Brains pick on each other. Mods pick on each other. Why don't they run off and start clubs such as Pacer's? Because, right or wrong, it is normal behavior. Pacer's club exists because she and others desperately want homosexuality to be considered normal behavior. The very fact that they have formed a club, to me, illustrates just how abnormal they are. I hate euphemisms!!! And another thing--the kids (what, all ten of them?) that belong to this club are going to be the citizens, five years from now, who bitch and moan about how their bedroom activities are nobody's business but theirs when they, in fact, MUST shoulder 100% of the responsibility for their bed sitting out in the public square. SHEESH! We are watching the death of common sense, right before our eyes. You know, I was a weird kid, really weird. I had horses on the brain from birth on. I didn't want to grow up and be a jockey or a cowgirl or a steeplechaser, I wanted to grow up and be a horse. Until I was twelve or thirteen, I mean, not just as a kid. I really used to hope that one day I'd wake up in the backyard with a mane and tail and 1,200 extra pounds. I wanted to frolic and jump fences and eat oats. I didn't want to form a club called "Weird girls who want to metamorphose into equines" because I had a shred of commom sense (horse sense, wacka wacka). I knew my equine desires weren't normal. Forming a club would certainly have drawn attention to the fact that I had some pretty freakish notions. Yikes, what a tirade!

[F.J. Mitchell]

How many fifteen year olds have even made a career choice, much less been past puberty long enough to proclaim that for the rest of their un-natural life they shall selfishly reserve their sexual lusts and acts to members of their very own gender? Not a damn one, is the correct answer. Anyone who argues otherwise, has a homosexual driven agenda that they crave to force upon innocent youth, before they have enough sense and experience to realise
how stupid that premise is.

The same sonovabitches who are out to abort as many babies as they can possibly get away with, are the same ones desperately trying to convince the kids who survived the threat of being aborted, that they are hoplessly and incurably, homosexuals.

Ever notice how the liberal Democrats tell us that the government can fix everything-everything that is except for what is more benefical to the liberal's perverted agenda, if it is defined as un-fixable? Homosexuality, for instance.

[Reagan79]

"That reflection was evident in March when eight members of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., staged a vitriolic protest in Cleveland on a Sunday morning. They hurled insults at worshippers for not condemning homosexuality strongly enough. Many Christian moderates were disgusted.

"We don't need these people to tell me how to live," said Rolland Hunnicutt, 43, who has two daughters attending the high school. He opposes the PRIDE club but doesn't appreciate outsiders entering the fray. "We were told to ignore these people, bite our tongue, but it's hard. It makes it very difficult to pray for people like these."

- Good Grief, not those psycho liberal plants created to bolster the gay agenda. The superintendent makes a great point about there not needing a club based on sexual orientation, but of course the lawyers would destroy any thoughts of that. What is needed is for the pervs to be ignored because they lavish and crave the attention. Just ignore them!

[Reagan79]

Great post! You had me laughing.

[TaxRelief]

It is normal for a certain percentage of heterosexual 13-year-olds to have crushes on someone of the same sex (usually someone older, like a senior, college student or teacher). They get over it.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

I've made this observations numerous times. Starting with the Boomers, we're a culture terrified of what we may hear in silence.

It is interesting the "hippie" generation that is for "peace" has to have a lot of loud, frenetic, amplified music...

[BibChr]

LOL, cool rant. You go, girl!

(WAAH -- Werehorses Are Allright, Honest?)

Dan
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