{"id":29717,"date":"2012-04-28T00:04:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T04:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29717"},"modified":"2012-04-28T00:05:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T04:05:32","slug":"its-ok-to-bully-if-youre-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29717","title":{"rendered":"It’s OK to bully if you’re PC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bullying is the topic of the moment, obviously– although, \u00a0when the media gets bored with it they’ll just move on to something else that matters to them. Kids get bullied at school because of the nature of the beast: huge institutions used to house barely supervised children. School is Lord of the Flies, all day. Period.<\/p>\n

That being said, I read this story on Fox<\/a>\u00a0about the founder of an anti-bullying campaign, It Gets Better<\/a>, that is evidently hugely popular– even President Obama has made a video for the group.<\/p>\n

It seems this founder, Dan Savage, who’s sexuality would be\u00a0irrelevant if HE didn’t make it the POINT,\u00a0\u00a0feels that it is the fault of Christians and, of course, the Bible that \u00a0bullying exists (specifically toward homosexuals) and he told a bunch of high school journalists so at a conference. \u00a0Many students walked out of his “rant” and were taunted by him. \u00a0Students report that he called them “pansy asses” as they left the auditorium.<\/p>\n

Rick Tuttle, the journalism advisor for Sutter Union High School in California, was among several thousand people in the audience. He said they thought the speech was one thing \u2013 but it turned into something else.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought this would be about anti-bullying,\u201d Tuttle told Fox news. \u201cIt turned into a pointed attack on Christian beliefs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first thing he told the audience was, \u2018I hope you\u2019re all using birth control,\u2019\u201d she told\u00a0CitizenLink.<\/a>\u00a0\u201che said there are people using the Bible as an excuse for gay bullying, because it says in Leviticus and Romans that being gay is wrong. Right after that, he said we can ignore all the (expletive deleted) in the Bible.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the teenagers were walking out, Tuttle said that Savage heckled them and called them \u201cpansy asses.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I couldn’t care less if this guy is gay, and married to a man or anything he chooses. \u00a0It was publicly known he was gay before this incident. \u00a0Clearly he was not being bullied or in any way\u00a0ostracized\u00a0\u00a0for his beliefs and lifestyle choices– but he felt he had the right to bully and insult high school students for their beliefs and lifestyle choices.<\/p>\n

Hmmm. Students, some Christian, \u00a0were respectfully giving him a platform but he could not respect them in return. \u00a0Got it.<\/p>\n

CitizenLink sums it up, I think:<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s significant\u2014and extremely ironic\u2014 that Savage would feel the freedom to display such intolerance during a speech that was supposed to be about bullying prevention.<\/p>\n

Using profanity to deride the Bible\u2014and then mocking the Christian students after they left the room\u2014is obviously a form of bullying and name-calling. This illustrates perfectly what we\u2019ve been saying all along:\u00a0 Too many times in the name of \u201ctolerance,\u201d Christian students find their faith being openly mocked and belittled in educational environments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I’m a mother of high schoolers and a Christian (yes, I bleach my eyes after a day at TAH…. \u00a0just kidding!) \u00a0 I don’t \u00a0expect the government schools or the main stream to get it right. And I, especially, \u00a0don’t expect any\u00a0government\u00a0to legislate good behavior.<\/p>\n

But<\/em> as individuals we can see right and wrong. We can see that painting ANY group of people with the same brush is bigotry, whether you’re insulting a gay man or a Christian high schooler.<\/p>\n

You don’t have to like me, Mr. Savage, just don’t BULLY ME. \u00a0Really. \u00a0 And you damn straight better not bully my kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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