Comments on: Focus on the Family Seeks to Exempt Alabama Gays from Antibullying Protection

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News bytes: your semi-weekly* news roundup | PunditCountry — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:18:19 +0000

[...] Truth Wins Out: Focus on the Family Seeks to Exempt Alabama Gays from Antibullying Protection. [...]

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:16:57 +0000

I was accused of being a lesbian from the time I was in the 7th grade on. I had been raped in the 7th grade (not related; the kid who raped me was not from the area), but, needless to say, after that I did not like boys. I started developing attractions to both women and men when I was in high school, but the only people I told I was bi was a few trusted teachers, and I did have a few boyfriends in 11th and 12th grade, but the rumors (and teasing) persisted. It was very difficult to live through.

By: Priya Lynn

Priya Lynn — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:53:46 +0000

Josh, you work to deprive vulnerable kids of the protection they need from bullies and then you want to claim you’re not hateful because you perform the utterly useless act of praying – it doesn’t come much dumber than that. You’re despicable. You try to excuse joking about this serious subject where children have died as a result of bullying by saying you don’t take yourself too seriously. You obviously don’t take the deaths of gay children and children perceived to be gay too seriously either. Your hate agenda comes first.

By: DaveTheWave

DaveTheWave — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:05:33 +0000

Hate groups like Focus and AFA and their ilk continue to spew bile because their anti-gay activities are how they make most of their living. When the day comes that Americans see how wrong they have been, the haters will find themselves without incomes! And they know that not only will they be without income, they will be reviled for their ignorant, hateful oppression of millions of fellow American citizens, and might have difficulty finding jobs because fewer and fewer will want to associate with them. They will do anything to stave this off for as long as possible, and opposing anti-bullying legislation is part of that.

By: Priya Lynn

Priya Lynn — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:40:06 +0000

Yuki points out this bizarre statement:

“Well, young people are highly impressionable. And for the schools to provide some special status for those who would perceive themselves to be homosexual…would be to legitimize and therefore to encourage these unhealthy lifestyles.”

So, now its “special status” to be protected from bullying like all the other kids? That’s messed up. Extremely.

By: Can someone define the “gay agenda?” « Dating Jesus

Can someone define the “gay agenda?” « Dating Jesus — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:14:13 +0000

[...] September 30, 2009 · Leave a Comment Because Focus on the Family recently said that Alabama’s Student Harassment Prevention Act — which goes into effect tomorrow — opens the door for the “gay agenda.” [...]

By: Yuki Choe

Yuki Choe — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:45:19 +0000

This statement pretty much sums up the kind of mentality that defines their unthinking thought:

Someone please ask Smith what kind of “unhealthy” lifesyle a pre-kindergartener till a 12 year old could be living. I doubt most anyone straight or not has any lifestyle within that age. The only “unhealthy” lifestyle the LGBT kids are probably living in, is the “get bullied” lifestyle, almost wholy aggravated by these people with the even unhealthier lives of heaping misery upon our children by assisting bullies.

By: David in Cambridge

David in Cambridge — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:33:41 +0000

FOTF (particularly James Dobson) has their own unique view of “reality”. Consider how, after the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, Dobson sent out a newsletter claiming that HE (Dobson) was the TRUE victim in this crime:

http://www.focusonthefamily.com/docstudy/newsletters/A000000225.cfm