[scripter]

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

It certainly has health hazards!

[Blue Screen of Death]

These folks need to listen to Johnny Cash singing "Boy Named Sue". It explains a lot about how things are not, as the liberals would have it, the way life ought to be.

[John O]

The word ``gay'' is used widely among schoolchildren as a term for anything bad, students and adults say. Children pick up from the general culture that homosexuality is something weird, different or bad, many say.

Exactly as it should be.

God Save America (Please)

[StopGlobalWhining]

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

It certainly has health hazards!

It certainly is weird!

[daisymae]

"It's the influence of society or some religions," said Greg Muller, a San Jose High Academy senior who started a Gay-Straight Alliance club this year.

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The above is a "Big Fat Lie". It is not a matter of religion. My son and I are both believers (born again) and my son (13 years old) is constantly picked on at school. No one hits him but they call him all sorts of names. I think it hurts me more than it hurts him.

I told him that he needed to stand up for himself and to give back what he got from his tormentors. He said that he hated bullies and if he bullied back then he became what he hates most. He's a better Christian than I am on this subject. Myself -- I'd like to knock their blocks off!

[GSWarrior]

a new study finds that students who are gay or thought to be gay are most likely to be targets

Why do we need a "study" to determine what anyone who has ever attended a public school already knows?

[Godel]

Average kids don't want to be gay and recognize it as something sick and wrong. No amount of social engineering will change nature.

[Grig]

Cry me a river. Stupid mean kids will abuse any peer or below they can get away with teasing, for any reason they can invent.

[weegee]

While large numbers of students in the survey also reported harassment of kids who have disabilities, who dress differently or who are fat, 24 percent said students perceived as gay are harassed all of the time, compared with 11 percent who say fat kids are teased constantly and 6 percent who say kids with disabilities suffer constant taunts.

So "homosexual" students are "harassed" while overweight students are "teased".

The article mentions kids who "dress differently" but we never see a percentage of how many of them are "teased" (certainly they aren't "harassed").

And again geeks and nerds are excluded from any discussion of classroom taunting.

[FreedomCalls]

In other news headlines:

"Increase Seen in Number of Gay Teens Who Falsely Report Being Harassed"

A large part of gay culture in the US entrenched in being seen as a victim.

[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[Old Professer]

At a time when bullying and teasing in schools is a growing concern for educators and parents

Another graduate of the Bulwer Lytton School of Rotten Writing, I see.

[scripter]

The Gay Gene?

Is there a Gay Gene?

The Fading Gay Gene

[eyes_only]

"It's nature's way of telling you somethings wrong..."

 

From the lyrics of a sixties rock band named Spirit'

[RansomOttawa]

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

I've got a blue-and-red Adidas bag and a humongous binder,
I'm trying my best not to look like a minor niner.
I went out for the football team to prove that I'm a man;
I guess I shouldn't tell them that I like Duran Duran.
- Barenaked Ladies, "Grade 9"

[HumanaeVitae]

The one "out" homosexual at my high school walked around (or, pranced around) campus in a black jumpsuit and carried a purse.

Can't say he didn't ask for it, but surprisingly he never got attacked to my knowledge. Teased, yeah.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

``The teachers are afraid to talk about it,'' she said. ``After working so hard for so many years, every time my son was teased or harassed, asking the school that something be done, I just got tired of it. I decided that I just needed to give my son the skills to protect himself.''

That should be the Prime Directive for parents. Maybe Johnny will stop bullying other kids when he comes home one day with two black eyes and a broken nose...

[Psycho_Bunny]

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

Uh....from the standpoint of "general culture" homosexuality is weird.  And unless the word "different" no longer means "different", homosexuality is different.

[Centurion2000]

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

That's because it is ...

There's hope for the next generation thank God.

[Lancey Howard]

The word ``gay'' is used widely among schoolchildren as a term for anything bad, students and adults say.

I have noticed my own kids using the word "gay" as a perjorative. They see something they don't like and it's, "That's so gay..."

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

Uh, natural instinct probably has a lot to do with it as well.