The school district in the county Bachmann represents practices
"No Homo Promo", including the high school she graduated from. Consequently, a rash of teen suicides has the townfolk scratching their bigoted heads asking
"Why?"The first was TJ. Then came Samantha, Aaron, Nick, and Kevin. Over the past two years, a total of nine teenagers have committed suicide in a Minnesota school district represented by Rep. Michele Bachmann—the latest in May—and many more students have attempted to take their lives. State public health officials have labeled the area a "suicide contagion area" because of the unusually high death rate.
Some of the victims were gay, or perceived to be by their classmates, and many were reportedly bullied. And the anti-gay activists who are some of the congresswoman's closest allies stand accused of blocking an effective response to the crisis and fostering a climate of intolerance that allowed bullying to flourish. Bachmann, meanwhile, has been uncharacteristically silent on the tragic deaths that have roiled her district—including the high school that she attended.
Bachmann, who began her political career as an education activist, has described gay rights as an "earthquake issue," and she and her allies have made public schools the front lines of their fight against the "homosexual agenda." They have opposed efforts in the state to promote tolerance for gays and lesbians in the classroom, seeing such initiatives as a way of allowing gays to recruit impressionable youths into an unhealthy and un-Christian lifestyle.
Interesting how this comes up the same day I'm (or was, I walked away) in a heated discussion on Shannon's (link will take you there) FB page on the
Gay History topic...Here's some of the comments:
sure........show the kids the closet they used to live in!!
More bullshit liberalism shoved down the throat's of innocent children only to inhance their twisted agenda. This kind of crap is what's turning our nation into shit.
If people would just stop making such a big deal out of these issues, they would just go away
The only book which could also be used as a history book that stated anything about gays is the Bible. And in the Bible it states God destroyed the towns where the gays were.
