Totally One-Sided AP Article on Gay Youth Is GLAAD-Endorsed
Associated Press reporter Christina Hoag drew special praise for "fair coverage" from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) for a story on bullying. "Fair coverage" in GLAAD-speak is completely one-sided "news" with no space for conservative points of view.
"Kids, even as young as middle school age, feel more emboldened to openly express their sexual or gender orientation," Hoag wrote, "but many are not prepared for a possible backlash, gay-rights advocates say." The voices of "backlash" are too evil to quote, apparently. The 1100-word story was slanted enough to be posted on the leftist website Salon. These were the six people Hoag quoted for AP, as she described them:
1. Jill Marcellus, spokeswoman for the Gay-Straight Alliance Network
2. Raymond Ferronato, a 16-year-old gay junior in Antioch, California
3. Travis Brown, an anti-bullying speaker now on a 200-school tour
4. Kira Garcia, a high school senior who “could no longer stand by while witnessing gay friends being taunted”
5. Benji Delgadillo, transgender senior who “requested his history teacher include gay people in lessons”
6. Activist James Gilliam of the ACLU
Gay-activist groups were the experts cited, as well: "According to a 2009 survey by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, 85 percent of gay teens reported harassment at school within the previous year and two-thirds felt unsafe at school because of their sexual orientation. The problem also extends to boys perceived as effeminate and girls deemed masculine."
Obama's administration is upheld as vigilant: 'Federal laws clearly uphold students' rights to express sexual orientation - boys, for example, are legally allowed to wear skirts just as girls can wear pants - and obligate schools to provide all students with a safe environment, but problems tend to arise on a social level, often outside the classroom."
You can't pray in the classroom, but boys can wear skirts. That kind of "expression" is highly protected.
GLAAD hailed the story with this paragraph:
GLAAD applauds the Associated Press for its fair coverage of this important issue. Pieces like these, which are printed in popular newspapers like the Washington Post, take the story of bullying in schools to the masses, and, in doing so, raise awareness of a nationwide problem that can only be resolved with the support of parents, students, educators, legislators, and the public at large.
The story sounded like a press release from the first few paragraphs:
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A history teacher amends his lessons on the civil rights movement to include the push for gay equality. A high school removes Internet filters blocking gay advocacy websites. Six gay students sue their district, saying officials failed to protect them from bullies.
After anti-gay bullying led to a spate of teen suicides last year, school districts across the country are stepping up efforts to prevent such incidents, while more students are coming forward to report bullies.
"It's an issue that has taken over the public consciousness since last fall," said Jill Marcellus, spokeswoman for the Gay-Straight Alliance Network. "People realize it doesn't have to be this way. We can make it better."
Awareness of anti-gay bullying is increasing as acceptance of gay people has grown in society. Gay marriage is legal in several states, gays are now permitted to serve openly in the military and, in California, schools will soon have to teach gay-rights history.
AP, just like gay advocacy groups, effortlessly blurs the issue of bullying with every other item on the liberal gay-acceptance agenda.
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This is AP
Submitted by Kaleidoscopic God on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 5:24pm.
Are you really surprised this happened?
"After anti-gay bullying led
Submitted by sometimesright on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 6:26pm.
"After anti-gay bullying led to a spate of teen suicides last year, school districts across the country are stepping up efforts to prevent such incidents, while more students are coming forward to report bullies."
bullying has little to do with it. anyone who's experienced school knows firsthand that children can be cruel. fat, skinny, tall, short, ugly, pretty.....don't matter. we've all survived it and lived to tell about it.
homosexuality brings a different dynamic. massive confusion, accompanied by a deep abiding shame with no godly advice offered by our public school system. just encouragement to continue in that damaging behavior.
Is OBAMA GAY like LEMON?...........
Submitted by jmigyanka@msn.com on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 6:54pm.
…. NAH! Just Bi.
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/rush/080916
http://citizenwells.com/2010/05/25/obama-down-low-man%E2%80%99s-country-...
Criminals
Mom of Murdered Obama Gay Lover Speaks Up
The story about President Barack Obama’s bi-sexual past will not go away. Now, in an exclusive interview with The Globe, Norma Jean Young, the 76-year old mother of the late Trinity United Church of Christ choir director Donald Young, has spoken out and declared that persons trying to protect Obama murdered her son at the height of the 2007 Democratic presidential primary to protect Obama from embarrassing revelations about his homosexual relationship with her son. Donald Young’s bullet-ridden body was found in his Chicago apartment on December 23, 2007, in what appeared to be an assassination-style slaying.
Some facts:
In late May, Wash. DC-based investigative journalist Wayne Madsen had a bombshell revelation about Obama’s membership in a Chicago gay club, Man’s Country. Madsen also reported on Obama’s sexual relationships with other men, including named D.C. politicians and Donald Young, the openly-gay choir-director of the church in Chicago of which Obama was a member for some 20 years — Jeremy Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ black liberation theology. Obama’s relationship with Young was confirmed by Larry Sinclair, who claims to have had two sex-cocaine trysts with Obama.
There were two other openly gay men in Wright’s church: Larry Bland and Nate Spencer. In late 2007, as Obama began his ascent to be the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, in a span of 1½ months, all three men “conveniently” died:
• Bland was murdered execution-style on November 17, 2007;
• Young was murdered execution-style on December 24, 2007;
• Spencer reportedly died of septicemia, pneumonia, and HIV on December 26, 2007.
• Death certificates of Bland and Young, http://www.rense.com/general82/cdet.htm
Now, Young’s elderly mother is speaking out about her suspicions that her son was murdered to protect Obama’s reputation and assure his political future as President.
4. Young
White House ramps up damage control over Obama Chicago gay history
An exclusive Wayne Madsen Report – July 19, 2010
The story about President Barack Obama’s bi-sexual past will not go away. Now, in an exclusive interview with The Globe, Norma Jean Young, the 76-year old mother of the late Trinity United Church of Christ choir director Donald Young, has spoken out and declared that persons trying to protect Obama murdered her son at the height of the 2007 Democratic presidential primary to protect Obama from embarrassing revelations about his homosexual relationship with her son. Donald Young’s bullet-ridden body was found in his Chicago apartment on December 23, 2007, in what appeared to be an assassination-style slaying.
ugh
Submitted by kata on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 7:43pm.
tin foil hat and a fork for the spam... please stop cross posting this.
Huh?
Submitted by CobraMan on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 8:33pm.
"Kids, even as young as middle school age, feel more emboldened to openly express their sexual or gender orientation."
Most kids of that age don't even know what "sexual orientation" even means. They can barely comprehend just what "gender" really means! Thanks to the huge hormone changes that occur during puberty, and the associated confusion those imbalances cause (it's kind of hard to determine your "sexual orientation" while your body is going through major physical changes), it is the worst time for kids to be "expressing" their "orientation." In a few years, one balance is achieved and the physical changes stop occurring, whatever "orientation" you may have experienced before is going to change as much as your body did. That's guaranteed!
Those who claim they "knew" at a "young age" that the were gay, or bi, or whatever, are lying themselves, and to the rest of us. For if those types of "orientations" were really "set" at birth, as so many gays love to claim, then we wouldn't NEED puberty! Puberty wouldn't exist, at all. I mean, really, all the "plumbing" is already there before Puberty, so why does Puberty even happen? It's because, prior to Puberty, a person's "sexual orientation" doesn't exist, AT ALL. So, please, STOP trying to claim that "sexuality" is the driving force behind bullying, for those kids have no clue as to what sexuality even is!
Do you want to know that the REAL driving force is? It's people like you trying to divide people into various neatly organized "categories," like "homosexuals," or "African Americans," or "Latinos," or whatever. Your insistence of dividing people up like that is having an unforeseen (by you, anyways) effect on the kids, who, because they see YOU do it, then divide kids up into their own kinds of neatly organized "categories" and act upon those apparent divisions, just as YOU do!
Get this through your thick skull: YOUR the biggest cause of these divisions, not the kids. They don't even know what the divisions even mean! But, hay, go ahead and divide people into neatly defined categories, and then tell everyone that some of those categories are more, shall we say, deserving of special treatment. That's sure to stop kids from being jealous and attacking each other because of that jealousy. That's sure to make kids see themselves and others as "equals." Right? Right?
As as for the suicides, that's not the fault of bullying. That's the fault of people like you insisting that this kids are DIFFERENT, when all they want to be is just like everyone else. They want to be "normal." YOU won't let the kids be "normal." YOU insist, through the media, through literature, and the schools themselves, that the kids are "different" and that it's "ok" to be different than other people, to be "special," and that those kids should even receive "sympathy" and "consideration" for their "special" classification.
This may come as a surprise to you, but kids want, kids NEED normality in their lives. It's how they learn to define their own existence! Kids, just like adults, don't define their existence by how different they are. They define it by how much similar they are to everyone else (which is why, by the way, people tend to gather together with other people who are similar to them. It's how they define their own existence.). The LAST THING they need is to be told that they're different from just about everyone else. It makes it impossible for those kids to define their own existence. It makes them confused as to who, and what, they are at a time when they are most vulnerable to perceived differences between themselves and others. That's sure to drive them into despair, and despair will, eventually, lead to tragedy. So, Hunny, you're not helping those kids at all. You're actually harming them! You are driving them to suicide! All because you won't let them define their own existence. YOU take it upon yourself to define it for them. What gives you that right?
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
→ Cuz I'm a rocket man
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 8:35pm.
"Rocket man - Bernie I could use a fairy bone" - Elton John?
It's a great commercial.
Oops
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 4:51am.
Free expression. How about a t-shirt that says 'I Will Pray For You'?
I will now make a bold prediction.
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 8:34am.
This equality, safe-schools, anti-bullying rhetoric will create the potential for abuse by the homosexual militants against any student in school that dares to disagree with them.
I know I'm going way out on a limb here.
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
Out on a limb?
Submitted by Boudin on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 8:58am.
Heck, you aint even up the tree yet.