South Africa has the world's most progressive constitution. We're talking anti-discrimination, gay marriage - the works. Yet, for some reason, a judge in the Rainbow Nation has decided that being portrayed as gay somehow counts as defamation.

You'll recall that a school deputy principal brought three students to court after the juvenile jokesters fabricated photos of him and another educator in provocatively bent positions.

The principal, Louis Dey, described the situation as "humiliating" and cried to the judge that he was "belittled." And the judge agreed!

A former Waterkloof High School deputy principal has been awarded R45,000 for defamation after three pupils in 2006 distributed a doctored picture of him masturbating with the principal.

The Pretoria High Court ordered Hennie le Roux, 18, Christiaan Gildenhuys, 19, and Reinhard Janse van Rensburg, 19, to pay Dr Louis Dey the damages because they had humiliated and insulted him.

The picture, which showed two naked men masturbating on a couch next to one another, was doctored to include the faces of Dey and Principle Dr Christoff Becker and was widely distributed among school pupils.

Judge Ben du Plessis said that while the image was obviously fake and amateurish, it suggested that the Dey had low moral values and would make a viewer wonder about his sexual orientation.

This shit makes us sick. Obviously these kids were in the wrong - you shouldn't be doctoring photos to show someone doing something they didn't do - but the fact that the judge took Dey's side only perpetuates ideas that being gay is something to be ashamed of - not the type of lesson a judge should be spreading.

Focus On The Family sure has been busy!

In addition to "predicting" a rampantly gay America under Barack Obama, the right-wing group has launched an initiative to infiltrate public schools.

From the ever-homophobic OneNewsNow:

Focus on the Family is conducting a project in Virginia, using students to try to get the Christian perspective on homosexuality into school libraries.

Candi Cushman, the program's educational analyst, heads the project and explains that the Christian view of homosexuality is not being represented in any of the school's libraries that have been contacted thus far by the students.

"What we're seeing is [that] homosexuality is being promoted more and more in public schools, and we're noticing a direct, correlating trend that, as that happens, the Christian or faith-based viewpoint is increasingly being belittled and even openly ridiculed," she explains.

Wait, wait - this group balks at the mere mention of gay in public schools, yet thinks it can go in there and start talking about same-sex damnation. You can't have it both ways, kids!

Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley's long been a pro-gay advocate, but that doesn't mean he's backing the city's potential gay high school. In fact, he's against it.

One day after his handpicked school board put off a vote on the School for Social Justice Pride Campus, Daley explained why — by expressing his misgivings.

"You have to look at whether or not you isolate and segregate children. A holistic approach has always been to have children of all different backgrounds– in schools. When you start isolating children and you say, 'Only 50 percent here, 40 percent here' — same thing we went through with the disabled — then you want to do that when they're adults," Daley said.

"It's controversial. Some people are for it. Some are against it– The Board of Education has to make the decision whether it's good for isolating children. I don't know– I'm just saying that's one of the problems– You start identifying them."

We actually agree with this one. Removing gay kids from potentially hostile environments may protect them, yes, but it does nothing to tackle the real problem: pervasive homophobia.

California's social conservatives thought they'd be a bit clever and claim gay marriage would require schools to teach youngsters all about same-sex nuptials. Thus, they urge voters to vote "Yes" on Proposition 8, which would overturn the state Supreme Court's gay marriage ruling.

Well, those claims are simply not true, and California superintendent of schools Jack O'Connell comes out in a new commercial to call such claims as "shameful."

As Barack Obama jets around the nation shoring up support for his presidential campaign, lawmakers in his home base of Chicago are preparing to vote on the erection of a "gay" high school.

Though he's not voting on the proposal, a local Fox News channel began to wonder where the Senator stands on the matter.

And the politician's support, they say, has been anything but resounding…

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It's getting hot in California!

The activists with No on 8 - the group fighting Proposition 8, a ballot initiative aimed at overturning this year's gay marriage win - have called out their lawyers to take on this inflammatory commercial put out by the Yes on 8 side, also known as homophobic bigots looking to eliminate Americans' rights.

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