Looks like it’s time to update BulliedByGays.com, the website that chronicles all the American children taunted by queer youth, because Townhall‘s Mike Adams just found eight Christian kids who killed themselves because some homos teased them about their faith. Oh, what, he’s just kidding?
Let’s get this out of the way: It’s a sad day when any child takes his or her own life, for any reason, gay-related or not. But apparently it’s worth joking about to prove a point, so here are a couple of Adams’ (fake) examples of Christians killing themselves.
Scott was a librarian at a university in Ohio. He was a member of a committee charged with picking books for a freshman reading program. He recommended a book called The Marketing of Evil, which was critical of, among other things, homosexuality. A homosexual faculty member publicly accused Scott of sexual harassment – merely for recommending the book. Shortly thereafter, Scott took his own life.
Jennifer [Keeton, pictured] was a graduate student in Georgia. She was studying counseling at the graduate level when word got out about her religious objections to homosexuality. Some professors also found out that she considered homosexuality to be a chosen lifestyle. Neal Boortz found out and called her ugly names on his radio show. The university forced Jennifer to go through a government-mandated thought control program, which Neal Boortz had endorsed on air. She soon found herself facing the prospect of expulsion from the university. She later killed herself in the face of the Boortz-led witch hunt.
Of course we know both of these stories are completely false. These two individuals, and the six others Adams list, are alive and well. How come? Because Christians have found their savior and don’t need to resort to killing themselves!
These eight cases are all true except for one thing: The Christians who were bullied by gays and gay activists are all still alive. Not a single one has committed suicide. That is because they have centered their lives around Jesus Christ, rather than their sexual identity. And no amount of bullying can change my mind about that.
If only those faggot kids could have found Jesus, they would still be here today!
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Except that’s likely not true at all. It’s unclear whether any of the handfuls of recent youth taking their own lives were among the pious. But finding God should not be the solution to not wanting to kill yourself. The solution should be not being driven to that point in the first place. And while that also applies to people of faith, who don’t deserve to have their religious beliefs trampled on (unless those religious beliefs happen to trample on the rights of others), time and again these religious conservatives distract from the real problem: that LGBT youth are uniquely targeted because these so-called “religious beliefs” permit it.
TJ
I think it’s disgusting that ADULTS are turning the tragedies of CHILDREN into something worth mocking. It’s like they’re forgetting that these were real children who had favorite teddy bears and smushed their first birthday cakes all over their faces. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this here but every day someone turns these deaths into a way of attacking and criticizing gays my heart breaks. If the bigots are going to be bigots they should at least have the decency and humanity to leave the kids out of it.
Samwise
Um… aren’t Asher Book’s parents preachers? He was very religious.
Christ, what a bunch of assholes.
Samwise
Sorry, Asher Brown, not Asher Book.
Cam
Even if these stories had been true, I think it speaks to their mindset that they feel that somebody dissagreeing with them is akin to being bullied.
Alex
This is probably the most horrifying news I’ve read in weeks, however it doesn’t quite cancel out the happiness of the Chilean miners’ story.
the crustybastard
That’s right, sodomites! Join us, or you’ll make us show you the warmth of our Christian Love.
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demonyc
it’s predictable when gays have successfully defined the source of some child suicides as anti-gay bullying that opponents of homosexuality [read christianist social conservatives on both sides] need to pirate the term and use it in their favor — no matter how desperate, false, insulting, cold-hearted, and selfish the narrative has to be.
OC
So Mike Adams is provocative, what of it? His satire is meant to drive home an underlying point, which most of you seem to miss. He isn’t making fun of those that have committed suicide, he’s contrasting the reaction of those with a faith to those who don’t.
Being the victim of some brutal bullying myself, my parents told me, “You can’t control the actions of others, but you always can control your reaction.” No teacher, or parent, or school initiative is ever going to prevent or stop bullying. But parents can teach their children to not let those insults bother them, and it’s an incredible lesson that will help them in all stages of life. My faith was also a large part in getting past that part of my life. No matter what they said, or what happened, I always knew there was someone who cared about me, no matter what I did, or who I was.
Daez
@TJ: They throw their own kids out on the street and disown them for being gay. What would make them give a damn about other people’s kids? They are so sick that they probably believe these kids are better off dead than gay. After all, it was them that made the kids believe that. Judge not less thee be judged seemed to escape these bigots, so in the end they will be judged harshly.
Mr. Enemabag Jones
@OC:
He isn’t making fun of those that have committed suicide, he’s contrasting the reaction of those with a faith to those who don’t.
OC, there is one point that belies the validity of your argument: The people Mr. Adams mentions in that post, are adults. The people who killed themselves were kids.
I appreciate that your parents told you about sticks and stones. But what did they tell you about physical assault? Did they tell you to ignore black eyes; broken arms; fractured jaws?
And lastly, as Quentin Crisp pointed out, black kids have black parents, Jewish kids have Jewish parents, but gay kids are orphans.
AdonisOfFire
Well some of those supposed christians deserve to be bullied, and I’d say they got off rather unharmed, if I was doing the bullying I would at least maim them 😀
TJ
@OC: Suicide isn’t just limited to the gays of the world. It happens within every demographic — even to the faithful. I’m not an expert but I’m going to go out on a limb and assume that the majority, if not all, of these children suffered from some sort of depression as a result of their bullying. Depression isn’t rational and it doesn’t disappear because you have faith. To assume otherwise is, in my opinion, rather ignorant. Then again, like I said, I’m not an expert. Just someone that did the same things these kids did when I was little and got lucky.
Mark
Dear God,
Please save us from the worst of your followers.
David
If you won’t allow the “Christians” to bully you into adopting their bigoted beliefs… then you are bullying them. Hysterical.
Karen St John
The Christian young adults who were “bullied” weren’t told they were social outcasts or that they were going to “hell” for being who they were (bigots, as it turns out.) A huge point of difference.
Queer Supremacist
@OC: They could teach them not to let it bother them.
Or, better yet, they could teach them how to fight back.
@AdonisOfFire: Finally, someone who agrees with me. Christians are nothing more than lion chow as far as I’m concerned.
There, I said it.
tallskin2
Folks, let’s get some things clear.
Christianity is responsible for the homophobia of all our western cultures from the time that the Emperor Constantine made that filthy death cult the state religion of the Roman Empire: within a few years the very first laws against homosexual behaviour were passed.
The persecution of gay people over the past 1,500 years is criminal.
Christianity is responsible for driving these gay kids to kill themselves.
Christianity is a criminal death cult. At the very least I expect christian leaders to issue an apology. So far, I have not heard one from these f*ckers.
It was because those gay kids, and all gay kids, were brought up in a homophobic christian culture, a culture that told them repeatedly that they are sinful abominations, that their heads were filled full on supernatural nonsense.
It is an Evil, nasty death cult and it continues to claim victims.
ewe
Here is another attempt to diminish the existence of gay youth who committed suicide. These religious NUTS are diabolical. They abuse god itself. Dispicable.
ewe
Keeton looks like she is ready to interview for an anchor position at Faux News Network. She has the bleached blonde hair meeting all the qualifications for a female hire.
Bill S
Mike Adams has a long history of saying stupid, offensive, vile, bigoted things. The fact that he’d sink so low as to trivialize the suicides of gay teens following ongoing bullying is fairly typical of him.
Queer Supremacist
@tallskin2: It’s way past time for a final solution for KKKristians, in the manner of their buddy Hitler.