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Illinois school bans "safe zones" - remove multicolor triangles signifying safe zones for gays
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Posted on 01/14/2003 7:01:59 PM PST by chance33_98



Illinois school bans "safe zones"

Members of the Rich Township High School school board in suburban Chicago voted 5-1 Monday to remove multicolor triangles signifying safe zones for gay and lesbian students from more than 100 classroom doors, the Chicago Tribune reports. The vote came after some parents accused the district, which includes schools in Olympia Fields, Richton Park, and Park Forest, of promoting homosexuality and discriminating against nongay students by allowing the triangles. The triangles signify that teachers in designated classrooms are comfortable talking about gay and lesbian issues.

The vote was a blow to many students, according to David Claudon, a language arts teacher who is a sponsor of a gay-straight alliance. "They are very disappointed," he said. "I think one of the things to work through for a few kids is, Does this mean the support is no longer there?"


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To: shadowman99
Hey SySop!!!! Do we have a rule about racial slurs and hate speach in here or not?

Oh heck, let's just cut to the chase and implement summary executions for thoughtcrime.

41 posted on 01/14/2003 8:33:58 PM PST by Slainte
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To: shadowman99
It's called freedom of speech...

Go cry somewhere else ya dork.

42 posted on 01/14/2003 8:34:13 PM PST by sit-rep
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To: chance33_98
Oh, I guess your safe then.........
43 posted on 01/14/2003 8:34:45 PM PST by Joe Hadenuf
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To: Buckeye Bomber
There is a good reason teenage homosexuals commit suicide at a much higher rate than other teens: people treat them like human waste.

It has more to do with self-loathing. And "human waste" is certainly part of it. Before their consciences become completely seared, they intuitively know that a man who has sexual congress with another man's rectum must have a serious, serious problem.

44 posted on 01/14/2003 8:35:06 PM PST by Kevin Curry
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To: ErnBatavia
That website needs a pink triangle!!!

;>)


Stay safe; stay armed.
Eaker Freeper Status

45 posted on 01/14/2003 8:37:13 PM PST by Eaker (I assemble automatic weapons in my sleep.......no wonder they never work!!!!!!. . . . .;>)
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To: Joe Hadenuf
"Get out of Illinois while you still can..... "


Amen. The Illinois Axis of Evil - Gov. Rod Blagob*tch, Mayor Daley, and IL House Speaker Mike Madigan - are going to turn Illinois into a ' RAT cesspool.
46 posted on 01/14/2003 8:38:03 PM PST by Kuksool (The NEA is the Great Satan)
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To: dogbrain
Just what WERE you searching for? ...nevermind, I DON'T wanna know!

Please trust me, this is NOT a "Don't Axe, Don't Tell" scenario! Believe it or not, I think I was trying to find some sort of Hillary picture....

47 posted on 01/14/2003 8:38:13 PM PST by ErnBatavia ((Bumperootus!))
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To: Ciexyz
"Why would homosexual groups today want to embrace a Nazi symbol?!"

Because they intend to portray themselves as permanent victims, entitled to various state-enforced privileges. The use of the triangle is intended to make straight people feel guilty toward homosexuals so we will give them whatever they want.

48 posted on 01/14/2003 8:41:47 PM PST by Irene Adler
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To: sit-rep
....the more you post a pic of a couple faggots, the more fame they get.

They pull the trigger on themselves. Like Lemmings, they simply can't help it, I guess (as in each and every 'gay pride parade' that gets held)

49 posted on 01/14/2003 8:41:52 PM PST by ErnBatavia ((Bumperootus!))
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To: Buckeye Bomber
There is a good reason teenage homosexuals commit suicide at a much higher rate than other teens: people treat them like human waste.

Welcome to FR fellow ohio freeper. You will find the biggest problem people have here with gays is the pushing of an agenda. No one wants to see teens killing themselves, and there are a multitude of reasons they do. No one is suggesting they not talk to a counselor, or even discuss it with a teacher. No one is saying for the schools to teach that gays are evil.

The anger in these cases comes from kicking all semblance of god out of schools, whether jewish, christian, et al and not allowing any symbols of a person's faith/beliefs to be there - even if a community is 100% christian and it is considered the community standard. The left has pushed and preached exclusion for one main reason (but not the only one) - they say kids are impressionable and putting such symbols/information in classes could make them feel uncomfortable and could cause them problems.

The left got it's wish, perhaps now it wishes it hadn't. Symbols are not allowed. Christmas can't be mentioned. Jesus could get you fired. And now what does the left want to do? Put symbols in the class room. When we protest they say 'it won't hurt, your just being fanatic hate filled freaks.' Funny how things change.

In my elementary school days we were more inclusive of things. We had jewish kids and we learned about hannukah, we celebrated christmas stuff too. Went to school with black kids and never thought twice about it, and we discussed things relative to their heritage as well as others. Sex? That was for adults. We had a sex ed class where we covered the basics in a three hour course. We knew what made someone get pregnant.

Nowadays everyone tiptoes and checks with attorneys before they do anything in class. The left won finally, and now they have to live with it. How do they christian or jewish kids feel now? If they make drawings for the class board that has a cross it would probably cause some sort of controversy followed by a meeting. The left wants us all to check our differences at the door so as not to offend anyone, unless it is one of their pet causes. They don't want diversity, they want control and cookie cutter people all believing the same religion they follow - socialism.

50 posted on 01/14/2003 8:47:07 PM PST by chance33_98
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To: ArGee; EdReform; yendu bwam; RonF; scripter; MEGoody; Remedy
Ping
51 posted on 01/14/2003 8:48:00 PM PST by Kuksool (The NEA is the Great Satan)
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To: ErnBatavia
Point being my man, is, do you really think they care about us brow beating, name calling and the flaming that transpires? They do not...they look at their selves in the pic and worry how they look, self admiration would describe it best. And, the other faggots get a free poster boy(s).

SR

52 posted on 01/14/2003 8:48:48 PM PST by sit-rep
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To: netmilsmom
There was a letter to the editor yesterday in the Burlington [VT] [notso]Free Press (a Gannett paper). Writer was
complaining that the media and pols here spend so much time on homosexuals, given that there were about 3K Civil Unions, and
about 1K AIDs cases in VT.
53 posted on 01/14/2003 8:54:03 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: sit-rep
do you really think they care about us brow beating, name calling and the flaming that transpires? They do not...

Of course they don't - check any 'gay pride parade' to see how stereotypically they treat themselves; it must be another of those uncontrollable urges...

54 posted on 01/14/2003 9:00:24 PM PST by ErnBatavia ((Bumperootus!))
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To: ErnBatavia
"Believe it or not, I think I was trying to find some sort of Hillary picture...."

now THAT'S disgusting!!

55 posted on 01/14/2003 9:09:25 PM PST by dogbrain (If you can be "born gay", how the the "gay gene" survive?)
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To: rwfromkansas
Is it just me, or does everyone deserve respect? I'm not saying they deserve special priveleges. But people act like respecting those who are different than us is some great moral evil.
56 posted on 01/15/2003 6:51:53 AM PST by Buckeye Bomber
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To: Doctor Raoul
....flip....flip.....(paging through my copy of "Liberalism for Dummies"....

LOL!

57 posted on 01/15/2003 10:11:14 AM PST by Ciexyz
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To: chance33_98
"Gay-safe" zones in schools? Hey, soon maybe we can have "polyamory-safe" zones too.

Want to make a difference? Get sex-ed out of school altogether. That's where all this BS nonsense started.
58 posted on 01/15/2003 10:22:12 AM PST by Antoninus
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To: Buckeye Bomber
There is a good reason teenage homosexuals commit suicide at a much higher rate than other teens: people treat them like human waste.

No, it's because same-sex attraction disorder is a mental pathology. Nearly all mental pathologies show higher rates of suicide among those suffering from them. Self-destructive behavior is part and parcel of the homosexual deathstyle. They are afflicted. They can be healed. Pray for them.
59 posted on 01/15/2003 10:25:44 AM PST by Antoninus
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To: Buckeye Bomber
There is a good reason teenage homosexuals commit suicide at a much higher rate than other teens: people treat them like human waste.

NOT! They realize they are abberent and, like their straight peers who also commit suicide, they are slow in developing the psychological tools to protect themselves from self destruction. The additional pressure of knowing they are abberent merely pushes them harder toward giving up than normal.

News Flash for all "alternate lifestyle" (puke) types who are so self-pitying as to blame straights for their "alternate lifestyle" mental problems: You're screwed up! It's not anyone else's fault but your own! Stop blaming others for YOUR choices!

ANYone knows that under ANY circumstances, one can talk to a selected clergyman without condemnation, but that might make an alternate lifestyle type feel uncomfortable because....

Oh, well, why bother! Alternate lifestyle types aren't about to listen to anyone who disagrees with them, anyway - kinda like liberals - think maybe there's a connection?

60 posted on 01/15/2003 11:25:39 AM PST by mil-vet
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