Calif School Challenges Gay Student Law

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Apr 17, 4:25 PM EDT

Calif. School Challenges Gay Student Law

By MASON STOCKSTILL
Associated Press Writer


LOS ANGELES (AP) -- As an openly lesbian high school student, Mattye Dane had classmates call her names, threaten violence and throw things at her in hallways. But her complaints were brushed aside by teachers, so the 16-year-old dropped out.

"Every school I've been to, I've experienced problems," Dane says.

Such treatment inspired a 1999 California law requiring schools to protect students from discrimination based on sexual orientation or perceived gender. Similar laws have been adopted in about 10 other states.

But in conservative Orange County, one school district has refused to incorporate the rule into its own education code, saying the measure is immoral and promotes transsexuality. The refusal has prompted state officials to consider withholding millions of dollars in funding for the Westminster district.

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[theHandpuppet]

1. Just fixed the link...

In case anyone tried to read the entire article.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Wonder when

a school will decide they want to opt out of an anti-discrimination law based on race or religion? Wouldn't surprise me.

[theHandpuppet]

3. The day is coming...

Those who don't take a stand today for the rights of every citizen might heed these words:

In Germany they first came for the Communists
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up

-- Reverend Martin Niemöller, a pastor in the German Confessing Church who spent seven years in a concentration camp.

[Solon]

4. I get sick of these assholes!!!

Bullying KILLS. Period. Doesn't matter WHY the bullies push around others, but with no help from adults, it can quickly spiral out of control, to the point of suicide. I'm beginning to think that is what these sick fucks WANT to happen to those damn "outcasts".

Remember Tempest Smith!