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They report,Superintendent Julie Carbajal said the district won’t approve the proposed Gay-Straight Alliance, but she will make sure all other school clubs are following the district’s policy. The district already has asked the Fellowship of Christian Athletes to meet off campus while officials meet with attorneys.

Paul Rodriguez, president of the Gay-Straight Alliance at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, said the district is alienating other groups to disallow the creation of a club proposed by senior Bianca “Nikki” Peet, 17.

He called on members of other student groups now restricted from meeting on campus to join him in protest against what he called the district’s discriminatory practices.

“It is unfortunate that the district is punishing those clubs that were already meeting on campus and creating a hostile environment where Nikki and her supporters could be potential targets of taunting, abuse and hate slurs — the very thing that the (Gay-Straight Alliance) is committed to ending,” he wrote in a statement.

School will continue that day as usual, and students will be taking the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, a state standardized exam, spokeswoman Lynn Kaylor said.

The protests won’t change the district’s decision to adhere to a policy approved in 2005 disallowing student clubs not tied to curriculum to meet on campus, the district said in a statement.

“If there is a protest, even after the district has pledged to solve this issue according to the law and ensuring Flour Bluff ISD policies will be followed, our concern will continue to be for our students,” Carbajal said in a statement.

The federal Equal Access Act mandates schools to offer equal opportunities for all students to organize. In disallowing the Gay-Straight Alliance, the district said it didn’t have to follow the act because its policy didn’t allow any non-curriculum student groups to meet on campus. Since Rodriguez called for the approval of Peet’s club, the district has asked all student groups not tied to school-based curriculum to meet off campus.

Rodriguez has said that disallowing all non-curricular clubs on campus takes away his group’s argument. However, he said because such groups were meeting on campus when Peet petitioned to form a Gay-Straight Alliance, the district set a precedent allowing such clubs. That precedent trumps the district’s 2005 policy, so the district should allow Peet’s club, Rodriguez said.

Full article  -Corpus Christi Caller-Times

Last November in Minsk, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko suggested to German Minister of Foreign Affairs Guido Westerwelle that he should cease being gay.

Lukashenko recently acknowledged the incident, telling reporters that he dislikes “faggots” and confirming he told Westerwelle “it is necessary to live a normal life.”

Russian gay activist Nikolai Alekseev expressed surprise that there was little reaction to the incident from German gay activists or the German government.

“To leave without reaction what Lukashenko said is nothing else than setting a dangerous precedent,” Alekseev said. “If he can bash verbally a German minister on his sexual orientation, then why he would not do it with all Belarusian LGBT people.
“People have to understand that their absence of reaction can have some negative side effects to others.”

“I’m very surprised that there was not widespread condemnation of the remarks,  the utter hostility and homophobia of one countries envoy to another.”   Said Jason Shaw, gay writer, blogger and activist. “I’m very disheartened by the lack of action by our German brothers and sisters, in our global fight against homophobia and for acceptance and equality.  They rather seem to have accepted his kind of insult and homophobia from a close by nation as normal and understandable -  which is not!  he said today.

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Kind of reminds you of the Civil Rights opponents of the 50′s and 60′s doesn’t it?

According to a post on Blog Critic:

Coming out of his victory in the CPAC straw poll, the first candidate to try to grab that spotlight was Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) who fired the opening salvo of the election with a long and convoluted statement opposing gay marriage and supporting the Defense of Marriage Act, addressed to the people of Iowa.

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Such as in the story they posted about Rutgers university’s decision to give some consideration to transgender student.

They start with the headline:

Rutgers OKs Steamy Gender-Neutral Showers

OMG!  You mean college students…who are adults…are going to shower with people of the opposite sex?  OMG, what next…will college student be playing beer pong and having sex?

FOX, you’re the epitome of what’s wrong with America and you need to keep your ignorance to yourself.  The right wing in this country, headed by FOX, is nothing more than a cult…serving the Kool-Aid a different way.

According to a post on LGBTQ Nation:

In the final minutes of the day, a Wyoming House committee voted 4-2 on Tuesday to approve a bill which would invalidate same-sex marriages performed out-of-state.

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Well, here’s a blog post that shows exactly what HIV + people can expect to endure if their status is known publicly.

Shopping is serious business and I’m working up an appetite.  Chicken teriyaki looks good and as it came time to place my order, the cashier looks at my shirt [which reads HIV Positive], backs up and walks off.  She went back to the kitchen and in a conversation that was heard by everyone tells her manager she doesn’t want to take my order because she doesn’t want to catch my cooties.

Honest to God, that’s a direct quote.

This is a MUST read for everyone and can be found at: CROWOLF

According to MoveOn.org, there are ten abhorrent measures the GOP is trying to pass that would take away rights and assistance from women.

One of them is:

Republicans not only want to reduce women’s access to abortion care, they’re actually trying to redefine rape. After a major backlash, they promised to stop. But they haven’t yet. Shocker.

But wait until you read the rest at: MoveOn.org!

According to a post on AIDSmeds.com:

What sexual accoutrement retailers can’t tell you is whether a lube will increase, decrease or have no effect on your chance of becoming infected with HIV if the condom breaks or you decide not to use a condom in the first place.

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But it’s not Black people they’re seeking to oppress (unless you happen to be Black and gay).

According to a post on NECN:

The Republican majority on the House Judiciary Committee backed a plan that bars Missoula and other cities from establishing their own criteria for those protected from discrimination, sending the proposal to the full House floor with a decisive 13-7 vote.

The panel on Monday also voted against a plan backed by Democrats to add protections for “gender identity or expression and sexual orientation” to the statewide anti-discrimination law that forbids discrimination based on race, religion and several other factors.

The message is clear.  If you’re not white and straight, then Montana doesn’t want you!  Isn’t it grand to know that discrimination is still something that can be legislated!

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