Penn. Students Protest Anti-Gay Bullies

By Andrew Belonsky January 31, 2008 at 8:01am

About 300 high school students signed a petition in Pennsylvania urging administrators to “take a closer look” at anti-gay bullying.

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Alacer

and after signing that petition, they’ll go right back to using the word faggot with absolutely no discretion.

I mean, it’s nice to see that effort, (and I don’t deny that there are probably some really great people and minds behind it) but I wonder how many of those signatures are from kids who did it so they wouldn’t look like a total asshole so they could continue to use homosexuality as the subject of almost EVERY offense presented among high school teenagers.

January 31, 2008 at 4:01pm

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