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A Pulpit for Bullies
The Public Discourse ^ | August 12, 3013 | Anthony Esolen

Posted on 08/11/2013 5:56:20 PM PDT by rhema

To campaign against the bullying of LGBT people as if disagreement with the gay lifestyle were an evil is itself a form of bullying.

On June 19, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ruled in favor of a high school student named Daniel Glowacki, who had charged that his high school teacher, Jay McDowell, had violated his constitutional right to freedom of speech. He was granted one dollar in compensation. The court’s verdict, in vulgar terms, was that the pig had the right to say what he said.

The facts, according to the court’s judgment, are these.

On October 20, 2011, the Gay Straight Alliance at Howell High School planned to take part in a national “campaign aimed at raising awareness of the bullying of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered youth.” The court acknowledges that the day is also called “Spirit Day,” which, the plaintiffs contended, is so-called to foster acceptance in the public schools of the homosexual lifestyle. The Gay Straight Alliance made up flyers to be posted all around the school, urging students to wear purple on that day as a sign of their solidarity with homosexual teenagers. The principal approved the flyer.

Wendy Hiller, one of the teachers, printed a batch of purple T-shirts, reading “Tyler’s Army” on the front and “Fighting Evil with Kindness” on the back. She had, in the past, worn a black shirt reading “Tyler’s Army.” The name refers to Tyler Clementi, a freshman at Rutgers who took his own life after his roommate had secretly filmed him in a homosexual encounter. Hiller, says the court, in evident agreement, did not believe that the shirts would be controversial, since the topic was bullying and not homosexuality. Hiller sold some of the shirts to other teachers at cost.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: academicbias; education; gaystapotactics; homosexualagenda; howellhighschool; jaymcdowell; lavendermafia; ribbonbullies
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1 posted on 08/11/2013 5:56:20 PM PDT by rhema
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To: rhema

Kudos to Daniel Glowacki who not only stood up to badgering, bullying, and harassment in order to defend another student, but to defend his God-given rights.

A pox upon the school and court system that sought to intimidate and punish him when he had done no wrong and was in fact the injured party.


2 posted on 08/11/2013 6:08:14 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rhema
The article was well done; however, I clicked on the link with some trepidation, wondering if it might be some sort of site promoting LGBT sex.
3 posted on 08/11/2013 6:09:24 PM PDT by marktwain (The MSM must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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To: rhema

Great essay. Thanks.


4 posted on 08/11/2013 6:27:51 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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Video showing National Organization for Marriage’s interview with Daniel Glowacki and his mother:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBzvtRbIhuQ


5 posted on 08/11/2013 6:28:45 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: rockrr

Exactly. State sanctioned bullying of Christians is just that, state sanctioned bullying.


6 posted on 08/11/2013 6:34:32 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge
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To: rhema

The most insidious form of bullying extant is people claiming to be offended by anything and everything.


7 posted on 08/11/2013 6:40:29 PM PDT by Walrus (America died on November 6, 2012 --- RIP)
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[[I clicked on the link with some trepidation, wondering if it might be some sort of site promoting LGBT sex.]]

You obviously harboring hateful thought crimes against the LGBT population. I’m kicking you out of class.


8 posted on 08/11/2013 6:53:47 PM PDT by heye2monn
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To: rhema

Anthony Esolen is one of the best tinkers and writers on the scene today. Please ping me if/when you post any more of his essays -— and soon!


9 posted on 08/11/2013 7:24:36 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.)
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To: rhema

No wonder Michigan is going to Havana in a handbasket!


10 posted on 08/11/2013 8:21:01 PM PDT by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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To: rhema

A well written piece! He does not make enough though of the palsity of the punishment metered out. The was an adult teacher violating the right of a student and bullying him because he stood up for his beliefs. If the shoes was on the other foot (i.e. the student was gay and getting bullied) this teacher would be struck off from teaching and maybe even on trial.


11 posted on 08/11/2013 10:02:25 PM PDT by melsec (Once a Jolly Swagman camped by a Billabong.)
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Public schools must be politically neutral and not discuss topics such as abortion-neither pro-abort nor pro-life, because a public school is not the place to discuss these topics. What this economics teacher does as a citizen outside work hours is 1 thing. However, for this economics teacher to bring his views to class and punish a kid who has a different view is wrong, because it’s the teacher who raised it. His job as an economics teacher is to teach economics, not push political views and censor people who differ.

While I see something wrong with gay/lesbian behaviors, if a gay or lesbian is doing it with other knowing and willing adults and not pushing their views on others, then leave them alone. But problem is that gays or apologists for gay/lesbian behaviors often push their views on others. Since Ellen Lee DeGeneres name came up-she is dishonest on gay/lesbian topic especially as she only has guests on her show who agree with her on gay topic and censor those who differ.

Ellen L> DeGeneres says that she is an animal lover which Okay, she has done things to benefit animal welfare. But here is Ellen’s contradiction. Ellen L. DeGeneres sees nothing wrong with sex change mutilations and these mutilations along with the hormones were experimented on animals. Ellen who supports finding cure for AIDS which homos get has not condemned experiments on animals to find AIDS cure. Ellen must make up her mind on animal rights topic.

Finally regarding lesbian TV or radio hostesses. Rachel Maddow while she has her pro-gay bias is @least fair in that she has guests on her show who differ with her such as columnist Patrick J. Buchanan and they discuss topics amicably w/o personal attacks though they differ. Rachel Maddow while I differ with her allows people who differ with her speak w/o ad hominems. Ellen is bad by only having guests who agree with her and Ellen L. DeGeneres sides with gays no matter what wrong the gay does including homosexual statutory rapist coward Harvey B. Milk.

Tammy Bruce (though I don’t listen to her show) in 2003 was fair in that Tammy Bruce decried gay/lesbian groups pushing their views in classroom to children and Tammy Bruce has spoken against sex change maimings-those were Tammy Bruce’s views in 2003 and I don’t know what her view is today so if any1 has an update, then please inform, as I don’t think Tammy Bruce’s views have changed.


12 posted on 08/12/2013 6:36:36 AM PDT by chandlerlansing
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As 1 who lives in Michigan, I called the school and asked teacher be fired. His job as an economics teacher is to teach economics, not push political views. If a public school teacher who shares my views against gayism, lesbianism and transexuality were to give his or her views during work hours, they would likely be fired. Public schools again must be neutral but this sadly isn’t happening. What makes public schools worse is that some (not all public schools do this) push views such as Harvey B. Milk Day in California, having classes which side with gays no matter what wrong the gay does.

Transexuals are worse and abolish sex changes. -since gay/lesbian groups have been pushing Laramie Project and the 2008 movie Milk in schools, then it’s fair that the ugly truths of who both Methew Wayne Shepard and Harvey B. Milk be told. With Harvey Bernard Milk-I didn’t see the 2008 movie but talking to people who did, the 2008 movie left out truth about coward Harvey B. Milk committing homosexual stautory rape on a 16 year old boy in 1964. Gay/lesbian groups including Shepard Foundation, Judy Peck Shepard and Big Island Chronicle Tiffany Camille Edwards Hunt see nothing wrong with coward Harvey B. Milk committing homosexual statutory rape on a 16 year old boy in 1964.

Before Methew Wayne Shepard was killed by 2 men in October 1998, he was viewed as obnoxious, moody and selfish. Metthew Wayne Shepard’s a drug junky who mixed Ecstasy with anti-depressants. Methew Wayne Shepard chose University of Wyoming out of all the colleges he could get into but then continuously insulted the college & Laramie. Metthew Wayne Shepard falsely accused a man of homosexual gang rape in August, 1998, 2 months before his death after M.W. Shepard had harassed the bartender who reacted by decking him and the next day M.W. Shepard falsely accused the bartender of homosexual gang rape which was disproven by medical tests and the excuse Methew Wayne Shepard made was that he was drunk, had PTSD depression and that he didn‘t remember.

But after Metthew Wayne Shepard was killed by 2 men, then he got hero or queero worship just as Harvey B. Milk has. Michael E. Glatze who used to be editor of Young Gay America before he became a Christian and realized his earlier views of homosexuality were wrong has said that a sad thing that has happened is that gay groups push Metthew Wayne Shepard and Harvey Bernard Milk as martyrs when both were obnoxious people a sad part of gay agenda is to side with gays no matter what wrong the gay does.


13 posted on 08/12/2013 7:15:06 AM PDT by chandlerlansing
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What gives these schools the right to engage in that catechesis? The business of the public school is akin to the business of a group of tutors hired by a group of parents.

Aye. There's the rub. Tutors have ALWAYS been in the business of catechesis--it's just that in the past, Americans pretty much shared the same catechism on right and wrong.

Because we now have a radically secular/atheist agenda assumed in public schools, no parent should use these atheist/perverted tutors--and rather opt for home-schooling or private Christian schooling.

14 posted on 08/12/2013 8:21:02 AM PDT by AnalogReigns (because the real world is not digital...)
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