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"Well, of course, I must have an authority problem, because I should have kissed the fannies of all the rich, popular kids.... and those new Dells are SO much more important than creating a non-hostile, equitable environment for all students."

There goes that hostility attitude again. Bad for you. Sounds like there is a great big chip sitting on your shoulder. And a real grudge against anyone who has more than you do in life. A class envy thing. I still think you are a Dem. That's how Dems are, pushing class warfare and being envious of anyone rich.

"and I'll continue to remember it until I'm strong enough to look the perpetrators and their enablers in the eye and tell them EXACTLY how I feel."

And you know how to hold a grudge too.

"heterosexual people engage in risque behavior and contract sexual diseases as well."

Generally not Aids, though. And Aids is deadly. And besides, being gay is a form of sexual deviancy. I cannot believe you think it natural for a man whose parts are made for interaction with a woman, who decides to engage in sex with another man. Same goes for women. Nature did not make humans in such a manner as to engage in same sex relationships. Besides which, you wouldn't be around if your "parents" were gay, now would you.

"Another one of our acquaintances tried to commit suicide by OD'ing on pills after some of the varsity basketball players started nasty rumors about her being gay. The school's culture and atmosphere clearly contributed to her suicide attempt, and her parents contemplated suing the school after it, but didn't because they were more concerned with getting their daughter better"

In one of your earlier posts, you said your friend WAS gay, so guess the rumors were right. Your friend was messed up long before the poor school had the misfortune to have her as a student. And I'll bet her parents knew it. If she was gay, she should have told her parents and/or request they not send her to a religious school. The Catholic school just had the misfortune of getting her as a student. Sounds like that might apply to you too, with your axes to grind.

"because of the amount of hypocrisy found in U.S. Christianity, especially Catholicism."

You really are on the wrong website, you know. I now think you are a form of troll, even though you probably don't realize it. Much better suited for the DU website. This is my last comment to you, as further "discussion" is pointless. You have a certain childishness that is bothersome, and you really need to grow up. But I'm sure you'll continue making comments in the same vein, on other threads as well. I'll try to avoid any further interaction. Good luck in life; you're going to need it.

"There goes that hostility attitude again. Bad for you. Sounds like there is a great big chip sitting on your shoulder. And a real grudge against anyone who has more than you do in life. A class envy thing. I still think you are a Dem. That's how Dems are, pushing class warfare and being envious of anyone rich."

So it's okay in your book that the popular kids from my school BROUGHT beer to football games and the administration turned the other way. That they got arrested by the cops for drug possession, but didn't get expelled because Daddy promised to pay for the gym to be repainted. That they got to take two hour lunches or smoke in the parking lot without getting suspended??? Frankly, the only way someone would actually believe that is if they were one of the overprivileged brats at my school.

As for which Republican party you belong to, it surely isn't the same one that I do. While I respect people who have gotten where they are using their own talents, I certainly don't bow down to them and kiss their feet, and if their children go to my school, they better have to play by the EXACT same rules that I do. The only people who think otherwise are Oprah Winfrey, Barbara Streisand, and all the other limousine liberals out in Hollywood.

"And you know how to hold a grudge too."
One of my biggest regrets in life is that I didn't tell those brats off in high school. Instead, I just let them sit there and laugh about how it's TOO BAD my best guy friend didn't decide to OD on pills as well, but unfortunately I wasn't assertive enough.

And of course, since they got away with it, they still aren't repentant. I had the unfortunate experience of bumping into one of them recently, and they asked me if I was "still friends with those (derogatory word to describe gay people.)"

"In one of your earlier posts, you said your friend WAS gay, so guess the rumors were right."

Perhaps before you attack me, you should actually read my posts. There were two friends... one who was openly gay, one who was just "smeared" as being gay. It was the one "rumored" to be gay who attempted suicide.

"Your friend was messed up long before the poor school had the misfortune to have her as a student. And I'll bet her parents knew it. If she was gay, she should have told her parents and/or request they not send her to a religious school. The Catholic school just had the misfortune of getting her as a student. Sounds like that might apply to you too, with your axes to grind."

Do you actually stop and read what you're writing? I hope that you do because that's one of the most awful statements that I've ever read. It took my about ten minutes to calm down after reading this.

Frankly, I believe that NOBODY deserves to die and that EVERYONE deserves to be able to learn in a non-hostile environment and to be treated with dignity as a being created in the image of God. You, however, seem to believe that if someone isn't rich enough or is too fat or isn't pretty enough or happens to be gay, others, especially high school peers, should be able to torment them until they crack. And if they decide to take their own lives, then it'll decrease the amount of undesirables in the world.

Frankly, if you want to know why people, especially young people, aren't enamored with Catholicism, perhaps you should look at yourself and your own comments to get a hint. I'm not saying that you have to endorse GLAAD's political agenda (heck I don't) or even that you have to approve of their lifestyle. However, you do have to treat them with common courtesy and respect. The story of what happened at my high school is only an (extreme) example of what might happen if you don't.