Posted on 02/15/2008 10:29:06 AM PST by paltz
(CNSNews.com) - A 14-year-old California boy is charged with a hate crime as well as attempted murder for shooting a 15-year-old boy who "sometimes wore makeup, high heels and other feminine attire," as the Associated Press reported.
The victim, Lawrence King, is brain dead, and prosecutors expect this to become a murder case very soon. They want to try the young suspect as an adult.
King was shot in the head Tuesday morning while sitting in class at a junior high school in Oxnard, Calif.
California has some of the nation's most liberal anti-discrimination, anti-bullying and "diversity" laws, including several that apply to schools and took effect on Jan. 1.
Homosexual activists have seized on Lawrence King case.
"Ten years after Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard was brutally murdered because of his sexual orientation, a 15-year-old gay California student is brain dead after a student allegedly shot him because of his sexual orientation and gender expression," the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network said in a news release. (The group says it's main focus is ensuring safe schools for all students.)
According to GLSEN, the 14-year-old suspect was among a group of students known to bully and harass King, who reportedly told classmates he was homosexual.
"As a nation, we've had our heads in the sand for far too long," said Kevin Jennings, executive director of GLSEN. "We need to do everything we can to prevent something like this from happening again."
GLSEN says the problem of "anti-LGBT bullying" must be addressed in the nation's schools. "We must confront the fact that LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender] students are much more likely to be threatened with a weapon and much more likely to feel unsafe at school than other students," Jennings said.
Judy Shepard, executive director of the Matthew Shepard Foundation, said the attack on King "underscores the fact that we cannot let hate go unchecked in our schools and communities." She urged "all parents and teachers to educate their children and students about acceptance, understanding and compassion."
California leads on LGBT issues
As GLSEN itself noted, California is one of only 10 states that protect students from bullying and harassment based on sexual orientation. It is one of only five states that protect students from bullying and harassment based on gender identity/expression.
"Safe schools laws and policies are vitally important, but simply having a law is not enough," Jennings said on Thursday. "Schools need to implement staff development and training to address anti-LGBT bullying and harassment. Schools also need programs that teach young people respect and tolerance."
Too much emphasis on sex, some say
But some conservative groups say California has gone overboard when it comes to "sexual indoctrination" in the schools.
The California-based Campaign for Children and Families has just launched an appeal urging parents to removed their children from public schools.
The group argues that home schools and church schools "are the only way to rescue children from sexual indoctrination."
CCF points to two news laws, SB 777 (The Student Civil Rights Act) and AB 394 (The Safe Place to Learn Act), which took effect on January 1.
SB 777 bars any classroom instruction or school-sponsored activity that "promotes a discriminatory bias" against sexual orientation and gender. (According to CCF, the bill "functionally requires public school instructional materials and school-sponsored activities to positively portray cross-dressing, sex-change operations, homosexual 'marriages,' and all aspects of homosexuality and bisexuality, including so-called 'gay history.'")
AB 394 requires that school districts be monitored to ensure they are complying with laws regarding student safety and harraasment. (CCF said AB 394 "requires public schools to distribute controversial material to teachers, students, and parents which promotes transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality, all under the guise of 'anti-harassment' training.")
"This is the type of gender-bending education which students may have to endure unless their parents rescue them from the increasingly negative public school environment," said Randy Thomasson, president of Campaign for Children and Families, at a news conference earlier this week.
CCF has set up a RescueYourChild Web site to help parents who are concerned about the new laws.
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It is part of an Orwellian plan to further emasculate our nation’s boys, and to change the meaning of normal to mean abnormal.
Here is how it works:
The administration **KNOWS** full well that having a boy show up in drag is very intimidating and uncomfortable for the normal heterosexual boys in the school. ( This is really a **normal** and healthy response on the part of normal heterosexual boys.)
When the heterosexual boy reacts in some manner, the normal boy is labeled “homophobic”, “intolerant”, and a “deviant from the PC dictated norm”. In this way what is normal is now called “abnormal”.
The heterosexual boy has a choice:
1) They can pathologically attempt to survive in this upside Orwellian world. In essence he will become emasculated.
2) React and be punished, and be labeled abnormal.
Get it?
Solution: We as citizens must organize a MASSIVE school tax revolt and shut these SICK indoctrination centers DOWN! Permanently!
>And by the time he is released from prison he will have keen understanding of what it is to be homosexual.<
Probably have some on the job actual practice at it too.
It's "intimidating" only for the closet cases. For most people it's not a big deal given that seeing a male in a dress neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
This has more to do with a sick society then the public school system. We as a nation need to decide if we are a Christian society or not.
wintertime: Solution: Do not institutionalize your child. Homeschool if you possibly can. If you must use institutionalized education, look for a **small** private school.
Guess what? Bullying can, and often does, occur in any setting where there is more than one child.
I spent 12 years in small private schools and guess what? Bullying occurred even there and that was back in the 60s and 70s.
The idea of bullying is NOT confined to public schools----but you knew that - it just doesn't fit your agenda and therefore you are unable to bring yourself to state it.
California has some of the nation’s most liberal anti-discrimination, anti-bullying and “diversity” laws, including several that apply to schools and took effect on Jan. 1.
And still you cannot legislate against the laws of God or of nature.
You can’t leave you kids in the hands of perverts while the culture dies.
Only gay blades think that Mr. Bean. Normal heterosexuals are intimidated by the threat posed by a male disguised as a woman.
Donna, I agree. I have been trying for a while now to help support (financially)as much as I can parents that I know who are home schooling their children with a Christian education. Someone in our family is a teacher in the public schools, and their condescending attitude toward their students make me have to say that I would never want them teaching a child of mine. I’m thinking it’s just a paycheck that they’re locked in to and can’t wait to get out of it. (There was a shooting at one of the local schools in the same system a few years ago. It was swept under the rug in short order and everyone is back in their little comfort zones now.) This teacher in the family talks ugly about the students and then gets the hackles raised up when anyone else even remotely hints that all may not be well in the dynamic around there.
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Regarding non-educational situations: Nothing in my post referred to this. What do you want me to do? I should chase a red herring of your creation? I don’t think so!
Regarding institutionalization:
Why do you think I said, “Do not institutionalize your child” ? Hm? I did not specify government or private. I said “institutionalize”. That means both private and government.
I did say, “Homeschool if you possibly can.” That means do **NOT** institutionalize your child in either a government or private institutional setting. Institutionalization should be a parents very last choice!
However...I did say, if you must institutionalize, look for a **small** private school. Why? Answer: The parent will probably have somewhat more control, and the teachers and principals as well. I think I made it perfectly clear that institutionalization, even in a small private school, was **NOT** an ideal situation for the child. In no way did I suggest that private schools were free of bullying.
Gabz, get used to this idea. It is catching on. I am seeing the idea of “institutionalization” in the writings of some very influential editorialists and, specifically, the leaders of the Exodus Mandate.
Yes, you did -- you just can't see it.
However, the vast majority of posters here are extremely intelligent folks and are quite capable of seeing through your claims of innocence in regard to your tunnel-visioned bulldog disregard of the parental autonomy of others who disagree with you.
I was not aware that members of the Saudi Royal Family posted on FR.
“I see that you played Women’s Soccer.”
Let’s not forget softball.
Matthew Shepard went looking for gay sex from male strangers, always a risky activity in more ways than one. He had the bad luck to encounter two thugs who were looking for someone weak to rob. He was not killed because he was gay. When will this politically correct myth die?
If the testimony of Shepard's killers can be believed, Shepard grabbed the crotch of one of his killers in a fit of gay passion. That probably explains some of the rage that killed him. Straight males do not enjoy having their crotches grabbed by gay males. (I speak from personal experience.)
Male homosexuals have been sacred cows in American culture for so long that some believe that they have a license to engage in extremely offensive public behavior and speech. In this culture, when a straight man sexually harasses a straight woman, and she objects, the straight man is the bad guy. When a gay male sexually harasses a straight male, and he objects, once again the straight male is the bad guy (for demonstrating his "homophobia" and his inability to "take it like a man.") It adds up to a formula for producing fury.
The article does not adequately describe what provoked this shooting. It presumes that the gay kid was minding his own business when the homophobe shot him for being gay. Whatever happened here, that was not it.
Certainly the shooter should be prosecuted, but it would help to hear the story from the shooter's perspective. It might teach some gays to moderate their behavior if they understood how much anger it can create, particularly in males who are unsure of their own sexuality. Of course, some gays act out precisely because they enjoy the outrage they can produce.
He was certainly asking for a butt whipping, at the very least.
15-year-old boy who "sometimes wore makeup, high heels and other feminine attire,"
>>What about the bullying done by LESBIANS, to straights?
Straights aren’t a protected minority.
“The sick freak didn’t belong in school. He belonged in a mental institution. So do his “parents”. As far as the degenerates wanting to crucify a 14 year old child for this; I would expect nothing less from them.”
Are you saying the shooter should have gotten a medal for killing him? I don’t think murder is justifiable or excusable.
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