One Town's War on Gay Teens

'In Michele Bachmann's home district, evangelicals have created an extreme anti-gay climate. After a rash of suicides, the kids are fighting back.

Sam's death lit the fuse of a suicide epidemic that would take the lives of nine local students in under two years, a rate so high that child psychologist Dan Reidenberg, executive director of the Minnesota-based Suicide Awareness Voices of Education, declared the Anoka-Hennepin school district the site of a "suicide cluster," adding that the crisis might hold an element of contagion; suicidal thoughts had become catchy, like a lethal virus. Full Story »

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Walter Cox
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by Walter Cox - Feb. 7, 2012

This is "can't put it down" journalism that leaves one with a clear sense of the problem and all of its ramifications.

I am so glad that Bachmann is out of the presidential race. Her husband, who acts all the world like a repressed, self-hating gay man, was even worse. Thank God they won't be using the White House as a bully pulpit to spread their agenda of hate.

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