Comments on: Bullies kill another Kid

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 03:31:09 +0000

Oh hell… Stories like this make me cry…

By: Old Dan

Old Dan — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:11:01 +0000

You lovable heathen you. :P What is really hilarious is the fact that, without realizing it, each time they start screaming like banshee defending their religious views they are asking for a theocracy!

By: ronaldo

ronaldo — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:50:02 +0000

At risk of inadvertently offending people at this time of grief, may I yet again state the obvious, and that is that there is only one source of homophobia, and that source is the church. have you heard of “united we stand-divided we fall” no church, or monarchy can exist within a united society. therefore theolurgians, must create division, where there is, no division. and dont forget, that in this country the church, and monarchy, have the might of the most corrupt media on the face of the earth, namely the bbc, with its in house hand picked grovelling scraping, dimbleby, naughtie, humphrey, to name an arsenal of people who go out of their way to avoid asking relevant questions of relevant people, if you have the stomach, watch that absolute abomination of sunday morning, “sunday live” if you wish to see and hear the grovellers and scrapers do their stuff, by conspiring to protect the church, by planning the entire programme from start to finish. who to invite, and who to never invite. I am rambling, forgive me. my heart goes out to all young boys victimised by brainwashed nutters.. bless you all, ronaldo ++++++++

By: Old Dan

Old Dan — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:05:27 +0000

Anyone who says “but i’m a Christian and i’m ok with gays, i’m even gay myself”.

And to that comment my reply is instantly ; “Then why are you still a christian or part of a christian church?” Like I said in an above post I see it one having the irrational fear of losing his soul, going to some hell, or being disconnected from some god.

Leonidas, you do realize the minefield you are now walking in? :P I hold the same opinion as you do so that means there are now at least two series of footsteps in that minefield. I say so be it. I’d rather be blown up than to submit to blind dogma and irrational belief in invisible beings.

By: islanddreamer

islanddreamer — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:04:20 +0000

It’s unfair to generalize. Many Americans opposed Bush and the war in Iraq. Obama’s election was a clear repudiation of right wing policies and politics. But the US has a lot of religious fanatics. You also have to remember we have 50 states and some of them are just as liberal and open-minded as any European nations. New York State has legalized gay marriage as have 6 other states. Has the UK legalized gay marriage?

By: Upikinonme

Upikinonme — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:40:56 +0000

Well that’s exactly it –
You got rid of McCarthy
You had Kent State and stopped the Vietnam War
You had Black Civil Rights
You had the start of Stonewall etc…
You had Kennedy for all his faults…..

But this last 12 years the USA has gone totally haywire…. and you allowed in Bush long before 9/11 gave the extremists and other idiots lesse faire.
And the country accepts it all plus even promotes this right wing fundamentalist approach.

By: leonidas

leonidas — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:15:50 +0000

I’m about to make the same old argument.Why? Because to pretend that it has nothing to do with the anti-homosexual climate would be ignoring reality.What is the same old argument?Here it goes: Religion is to blame.Especially the judeo-christian religions,which includes islam. The punishment for being homosexual in islam is death.If the christian right in the U.S had it’s way, homosexuals would be put to death in the U.S as well.Ironic how christians are so islamophobic, when they have so much in common ideologically. It’s not a coincidence that the least religious societies tend to be more accepting.

Anyone who says “but i’m a Christian and i’m ok with gays, i’m even gay myself”. Guess what….you’re the exception, not the rule.I also got some bad news for you…..homosexuality IS against judeo-Christianity.You really think the ancient jews or original christians would have been ok with homsexuals? The old time jews would have put you to death,and the first christian would have at the least excommunicated you.At the most, they would have put you to death as well.Homosexuality has never been acceptable in judeo-christianity.The people who wrote the bible were anti-gay,hence, why judeo-christianity breeds homophobia.

By: islanddreamer

islanddreamer — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:53:46 +0000

What’s happening in the U.K. is very positive. There have been times when it lagged behind the US, especially regarding the age of consent laws that used to discriminate against gay male youth. It is nice to see the U.K.’s complete turnaround on these issues and also it’s demands that the other Commonwealth countries follow suit. Remember, it is England that originally exported homophobia to all it’s colonies, a sordid legacy it still needs to fully redeem itself from in my opinion.

You might want to read up on US history. The 50′s were a terrible time of racism and communist bating. Google Senator Joseph McCarthy. And the 60′s saw the very terrible Vietnam War and all the death and destruction it caused.

Every generation and every nation has it’s problems and misguided beliefs. We all need to focus on cleaning our own house and we have our work cut out for us here in the US.

By: islanddreamer

islanddreamer — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:39:57 +0000

I don’t have any sympathy for school districts that don’t protect gay kids. It’s the taxpayers in these communities who end up paying and it is their anti-gay attitudes that are reflected in their choice of school board members and the behavior of students. So let them pay. Because a school that doesn’t protect ALL students doesn’t protect any students.

By: Upikinonme

Upikinonme — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:52:56 +0000

My post at #13 got under your skin .. Lolsss
Here’s some information about the current status of U.K. Government actions on homophobia against mainly youth but also covering every part of society.

http://www.stonewall.org.uk/at_school/what_the_law_says/default.asp

The U.K. is not perfect but, unarguably, and like most of North West Europe, is a million miles ahead of the prevailing climate within the USA regarding Humanity, Democracy and Morality. I regret that the USA is just now swimming in moral corruption and hypocrisy. All Society changes through time. The USA is not the country it was during the 1950′s and 60′s when it could be argued the good guys outnumbered the bad guys and good things got done.
I wish you the very best of good fortune in your efforts to get your troubles fixed… You need political will – but it seems your only politicians making headlines on Gay stuff are closeted idiots getting themselves blackmailed, caught with interns and other such crap.