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 »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
This report is devastatingly sad and at the same time infuriating. The behavior of the professional school administrators and the school board members can only be described as criminal. The supposedly Christian groups (and Michelle Bachmann) pushing their anti-gay agenda have blood on their hands and they revel in it. Christ, save us from your followers!