GOP lawmakers want to exclude gay students from anti-bullying bill
A pair of Republican state legislators has introduced a bill that would remove protections for gay, lesbian and transgender students from an anti-bullying law passed in 2007.
State Reps. Jason Schultz, R-Schleswig, and Matt Windschitl, R-Missouri Valley, sponsored the legislation to remove sexual orientation and gender identity as definitions used for purposes of protecting students in public and nonpublic schools from harassment and bullying.
Schultz told NBC affiliate WHO-TV that the rationale behind the move is to force a vote on a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, since the Iowa Supreme Court pointed to laws like Iowa’s Safe Schools Law in making its April decision to legalize same-sex marriage. Ryan Roemerman, executive director of Iowa Pride Network, said the bill would open up LGBT students to bullying and harassment.
“When our state is facing record budget deficits and unemployment, House Republicans feel their time is best spent picking on Iowa’s LGBT youth,” Roemerman said in a statement. “There is no better example as to why we have this law, so youth in Iowa don’t grow up to be like these bigots.”
This comes after a gay 13 year old put a bullet in his brain last week in Texas. Oh, and there was that fifteen year old in Indiana who hung himself. Oh, and I almost forgot about that other thirteen year old from California. That's three gay teenagers who committed suicide this month alone because of anti-gay bullying. Merry Christmas.
A friend of mine on Facebook posted an article about the death of one of these teenagers. Some stupid fuck had the audacity to respond with this mound of ignorant garbage:
If the kid attempted suicide then it sounds like bullying wasn't his only problem, but a symptom or rather it was in addition to a problem he already had. You guys are angry with the bully who did not in fact take this kid's life, but you ignore that he already had a bigger issue if he was willing to attempt to take his own life.(since it's complicated to be politically correct, I will make this simple) No man who loves himself would take his own life. It is tragic that this kid died, it could have been avoided if someone took the chance to look at the bigger issue rather than the symptom. This child came out to his parents and said he was gay, everyone tries to just accept the symptom rather than addressing his real issue which was spiritual and sinful by nature. You guys like to sugar coat everything because you want to believe that the unnatural is in fact natural, and since you try to make the unnatural natural, you do not address the unnatural when it is present. So this kid struggled with his identity, but no one addressed it, and as part of his identity crisis, he was bullied, which since he was already experiencing internal struggle, led him to take his own life. I am sorry he was not given a chance to know one who would love him enough to tell him the truth and help him through his struggle.
The book with the talking snake is right! It's the sin which gayness contains that drives them to suicide, not the fact that society constantly pounds into their brains that they are the most evil little shits on the entire planet! How could that possibly be damaging to the mind of a 13 year-old boy? That's just stupid. Talking snakes for me.
To the few readers of this blog, I ask of you one favor for the good of society: the next time you come across a person who thinks homosexuality is wrong to any extent, go ahead punch them in the fucking throat. Three times. Once for each suicide in the month of September he or she is responsible for. And as you do so, constantly remind them that you love them and that you're praying they change their sinful ways.
Edit: Whoopsie daisy! Make that four punches to the throat.
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