Teens: Anti-gay bias rampant

The Mercury News ^ | Dec. 12, 2002 | Katherine Corcoran

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At a time when bullying and teasing in schools is a growing concern for educators and parents, a new study finds that students who are gay or thought to be gay are most likely to be targets -- even more than children who are overweight or have disabilities.

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Children pick up from the general culture that homosexuality is something weird, different or bad, many say.

It certainly has health hazards!

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Ping.

Homosexual Agenda

[ZULU]

Maybe instead of trying to "re-educate" the normal kids, they should try to "re-educate" the homosexuals.

[TomServo]

``We need more kids to stand up.''

Hard to do when you're bending over.

[billbears]

Mitchell's mother, Teri Erickson, helped found a Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network chapter in San Mateo County as a result of her son's harassment

I just got tired of it. I decided that I just needed to give my son the skills to protect himself.''

Well founding a chapter in support of deviants isn't really a way to protect him that I can see. Why not teach him how to fight?

[FreeTally]

Mitchell's mother, Teri Erickson, helped found a Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network chapter in San Mateo County as a result of her son's harassment. But she says little has changed.

Yeh, instead of keeping their sexual desires and thoughts to themselves, you encoraged the kids to identify themselevs and set themselves apart. Brilliant idea, lady. That would never lead to harassment.

[Paul Atreides]

``Most of my sixth-grade year was a living hell,'' said Jacob Rubin, 13, now an eighth-grader at Willard Middle School in Berkeley who said he was labeled gay because of his long hair.

A kid was called names....because of long hair....in Berkeley!

Yeah, right.

[Mr. Bird]

San Carlos middle-schooler Mitchell Erickson still endures gay epithets that started in elementary school, when he said he liked the Spice Girls.

Come on. HE was asking for it, and I'm only half-joking. Kids are going to pick on other kids, that's the reality. This kid handed them the rope, in my opinion.

[ClearCase_guy]

Maybe instead of trying to "re-educate" the normal kids, they should try to "re-educate" the homosexuals.

Totally agree. These kids won't be happy -- won't be gay -- until they learn to be heterosexual. Homosexuality is a mental illness. They don't have to live that way, but until society re-learns that lesson, these kids are going to suffer. What we, as a society, are currently doing is making more victims and making those victims more unhappy. How wonderful.

[Sangamon Kid]

"...One day I was actually sitting in class when four boys hit me.''

You would expect a girl to say this. What a weenie!

[John Lenin]

Children pick up from the general culture that homosexuality is something weird, different or bad, many say.

Total BS.

[ladylib]

I guess that means that the laws the CA legislature passed regarding tolerance of homosexuality aren't very effective.

[Grampa Dave]

Actually the pro Gay Agenda and pro Gay bias is rampant in our schools, our universities, the media, Follywood, left wing legislatures and of course with any rat politician.

They hate the normal side being presented as the normal side.

They prefer that their short perverted life spans be seen seen as normal instead of the perverted and diseased dark side reality that is the life of a homosexual.

Tough! Put some ice on it! The reality of the sick/perverted and ill life styles are being dragged out into the open for all to see!

[nolaw0ady]

"You would expect a girl to say this. What a weenie!"

Wow I thought only girls used the phrase 'what a weenie'.

[Chi-townChief]

"San Carlos middle-schooler Mitchell Erickson still endures gay epithets that started in elementary school, when he said he liked the Spice Girls."

How gay is THAT!?!?!

[Malcolm]

I'm glad there is still a stigma about it. This way, children learn at an early age that this is wrong. I'd be shocked if the opposite was true.....

[jimt]

Children pick up from the general culture that homosexuality is something weird, different or bad, many say.

And a major portion of the homosexual agenda is to be accepted as normal and good - which is ludicrous. It is weird, it is different, and it's bad for those who choose to live this way. While it's their choice, I DO NOT HAVE TO APPROVE !

[tm22721]

students who are gay or thought to be gay are most likely to be targets

Darwin at work.

Liberals should be happy.

BUMP

[Sangamon Kid]

Wow I thought only girls used the phrase 'what a weenie'.

Hey! Are you insinuating that I'm a girl? How dare you!! Just for the record, I'm a transgendered, lesbo-necromantic, neutered, Homo-American. So, there!!