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Seth Walsh, a California teen who spent the last 10 days on life support after attempting suicide over relentless bullying because he was gay, died today. He was 13 years old.
Seth’s family took him off life support this afternoon, reports KGET-TV.
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Seth was found Sunday, September 19, unconscious and not breathing, and it appeared he had tried to hang himself from a tree branch, according to police reports. He was rushed by helicopter to Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield.
According to reports, Seth was openly gay and was taunted by bullies for years, at school and at a local park.
He attended Jacobsen Middle School last year and for only two weeks this year, before being transferred to independent study — reportedly because he had been bullied relentlessly. But school officials at Tehachapi Union School District claim there have been no reports of bullying.
Because they ALWAYS claim there have been no reports of bullying, because they’re too damned preoccupied with Whatever-The-Hell to notice when kids are being relentlessly teased, and hell, some of the teachers and administrators have Perfect Snowflake Babies too, and it never crosses their minds that maybe these kids are not “Just Being Kids,” and perhaps they should step in; meanwhile, well-meaning groups like GLSEN and others try to step in and educate the schools on how to combat this problem, but nothing ever seems to get done; and blocking their path, you have motherfuckers like Focus on the Family and Laurie Higgins, and many others on the Religious Right who fight tooth and nail against any anti-bullying program that deigns to consider gay kids fully human, lest you interfere with their “God-given Religious Freedom” to hate anyone that doesn’t conform to their ridiculous, uneducated worldview, even though half the faggots raised in this world come from their homes, and…
Oh, excuse me, did my foul language offend the purest white virgin ears of the Religious Right?
More than the dead body of a child offends you, a child who killed himself because people like you work every day to create a climate where kids like him learn to hate themselves?
Look up at the picture, Higgins. You too, Glenn Stanton. Then look at this one. Then read about this one. A thirteen year-old, a fourteen year-old and a fifteen year-old, all in the same month.
This is the result of your work, Focus, Laurie Higgins, Peter LaBarbera, Matt Barber, Bryan Fischer, Scott Lively, Tony Perkins, Peter Sprigg, and all the rest of you. These are dead kids. Happy yet?
But it doesn’t matter to you, does it? They’re just dead faggots. What else, in your worldview, would please your Jesus more?
Goddammit.
More proof that when they say pro-life for children, they mean before birth, and when they say pro-family, they mean pure heteronormative upper-middle-class Christian nuclear family.
More proof that they don’t actually care about the lives of anyone, except with regards to how they can control them.
More proof that “hate the sin, love the sinner” is the biggest lump of steaming, maggot-infested horse s**t.
How many more have to die before people get a f*****g clue?
These needless deaths are tragic. Has anyone written to Focus to lay the blame at their feet? They really need to be alerted to the fact that the gay community is aware of their perfidy, aware that their lies are actually KILLING kids! m***********s, indeed!
God MADE us gay…. prolly to test the tolerance of others. They are failing. Miserably. Sad.
[...] may have noticed that we’re boiling over here over the fact that three gay kids that we know of have killed themselves this month, [...]
Dear Religous Right,
Does the statement below ring a bell with you?
“Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]”
In all your holier-than-thou rantings, have you given even one thought to this concept?
Shall we take it to mean that since you feel so rightious in treating members of the LGBT community so appallingly, that you would like to be treated the same way? is that what you really think Jesus Christ would say?
You are NOT Christians. Christ taught acceptance, love and tolerance, not hate, rejection and violence. You are ANYTHING BUT Christian.
To all of you Religous want to be’s, remember you will be judged in the end by Jesus Christ, he will be the Judge and Jury, you will pay for your sins, all of your sins. I thank God for Jesus, and I believe his words. By the way, I am Gay also!!!!!
Such a hypocrite, you use a lot of hate to call out people for “hating” others. Look in the mirror and you will find someone who hates just as much as the people you are calling out in this article. Grow up and time to engage in a conversation like an adult if you want to be taken seriously…
So I guess we can count Jeff among those are are more upset about the word “m**********r” than they are about the bodies of dead children.
There’s that Christian morality we’re so used to!
They’ll be no changing the gay hating RR.
They are the biggest, most vile pieces of s**t on this planet.
@7 Jeff, here’s the key difference. We hate people who bully gay children to their deaths. They hate children who are gay and not yet dead. Think I’ll side with those who hate killers instead of those who hate a*s-sex.
In other words, f**k you.
Switzerblog, you win the internet.
@Jeff — September 29, 2010 @ 2:59 pm
f**k you a*****e. How’s that for some hate.
‘because people like you work every day to create a climate where kids like him learn to hate themselves?’
That about hits the spot. Even if you survive it, 20 years later it’s still there every day. Every minute. You never trust anyone again, and question the motives of everything anyone says or does to see what harm they mean to you. And there’s a big emotional void – while all the other teenagers were building relationships & social experience you had to seek sanctity in solitude just to survive – at least ‘they’ couldn’t get you then. That stays with you – it was the coping mechanism you learnt. And they call that living?
Jeff is one of those losers who attempts to deflect the blame from his side (religious wacko righties) by playing the helpless victim when he knows full well that his side is the true perpetrator of hate. It is a standard tactic of the religionistas, when they know they are in the wrong and will be called on the carpet for it, they shrink back and say oooh you hate me for being religious, you misunderstood, etc. Standard uneducated religious scum.
BTW A. Grees, your words are right on, the damage done from an early age by not only the direct bullying, but by the bullying of society at large (the media, e.g.) is very difficult to heal from, and leaves the victim isolated and alone.
Jeff, shove your projection of hate onto us up your a*s! This kid and others like him were bullied to the point that they took their own lives. I admit, I hate people who hate someone to the point that the person who is hated sees no way out but death. This child harmed no one, but hatred of people like you drove him to kill himself. Your side of this is utterly contemptible and utterly responsible for this and the deaths of thousands of kids like him every year.
What people don’t understand is that no one *chooses* to be gay. We are what we are. It’s hard enough for us to come to terms with it w/out others mockery adding to it. Bullying isn’t the source of the problem. It’s starts at HOME. Kids hear the hate spewed by parents and feel justified in taunting others. We need school programs to correct this. To teach kids tolerance and that bullying is WRONG and will not be tolerated. Ignorance breeds ignorance. These kids need to be better educated about what it is to be GLBT.Focus on the family needn’t be so self righteous.
Romans 3-23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
[...] It gets better. I was bullied and taunted throughout my school years because I was ‘perceived’ as different (or as they said, a ‘fagot’, queer, sissy and other names). I was threatened, pushed,shoved, beat and lived in terror until I became mature enough to realize that one day I would leave these people behind and could, WOULD, live my life as I pleased. I was a Junior in High School when this realization came to light. Before this realization, I prayed that God would let me die and thought about suicide many, many times. I could have been Seth Walsh. This is why we need to tell them… I gets better! Amplify’d from http://www.truthwinsout.org [...]
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Who in their right mind would CHOOSE to be gay. NO ONE would. No one would chose to be an outcast, to be rediculed, to feel so out of place and so very different. So if no one choses to be gay. maybe there is no choice. You just are. God bless you.
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