Two 14 year Old Students Sent Home for a Hug?

The "Moral" right sometimes goes even farther than we've come to expect them to go. This example of their "righteous indignation" crosses the line of any such morals and over into the realm of absurd, anti-family (which they so proudly wave in front of themselves like a big banner), and confirms the absolute hypocrisy  that is - being "right."

Two 14-year-olds in Palm Beach, Florida weren’t expecting to be sent home from school when they greeted each other with an innocent hug.

Nancy Crescente was shocked to find out that Palm Bay Southwest Middle School suspended her son, Nickolas Martinez, and his friend.  “I thought it was the most bizarre thing I’ve ever heard,” Nancy Crescente told WOFL. “We’re a cultural family and this is what we do.”

Students suspended for hugging: MyFoxORLANDO.com

“They said this is what they do across the board, it is what it is. And that was that.”
School administrators say there are no plans to update the “no hugging” policy that was approved by a committee of parents years ago.

“‘Public Displays of Affection’ is a school board policy,” Brevard County School spokesperson Nancy Davis explained. “It relates to kissing and holding hands and hugging. It is a blanket-wide policy across all schools here.”

But Nancy Crescente thinks that its time for that policy to change. “There was nothing inappropriate. Hugging is mutual. It was a mutual hug, and I just don’t understand how something so innocent can be turned into this chaos.”

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Gay teens more likely to be punished says study

"  Gay, lesbian and bisexual teens are about 40% more likely than straight adolescents to be punished by schools, police and courts according to a new study.

     School expulsions, arrests, juvenile and adult convictions and police stops are more likely to be meted out to them, said lead researcher Kathryn Himmelstein of Yale University who studied teenagers in the United States.

      The study, described as the first national look at sexual orientation and teen punishment, comes as a wave of bullying and suicide cases across the country has focused attention on adolescent torment.
      Research previewers studied 15,000 middle and high school students who were followed for seven years into early adulthood.
      Nearly 1,500 of the participants in the study identified themselves as lesbian, gay or bisexual, but more than 2,300 reported having felt a same-sex attraction at some point in their lives. More than 800 were in a same-sex relationship.
      A full report on the study will be published in the January edition of the journal Pediatrics."

by Dale McEwan..December 6

Countries vote to accept execution of gays-U.N. Votes

Countries vote to accept execution of gays - PinkPaper.com

A few blogs ago I mentioned that I didn't think it would be long before we-gays as a minority-would be thrown back into the dark ages again in a repeat of the cyclical history of our world. Well, this MAJOR vote is another in a series of backward steps that will soon have closet doors quietly closing once again someday as the punishment for "choosing" to be gay will be death or imprisonment in a world of intolerance. The recent incidents like this and Willow Palin's unremorseful remarks on Facebook against "faggots" show that people of all ages can, and are all ready displaying and getting away with the bigotry and shallow disrespect for others that they themselves fight so hard to defend for themselves based upon self-righteousness. Maybe, as I said before, the Mayans were right about their 2012 calendar.

UPDATE: Vince Vaughn defends comedic use of the word gay - PinkPaper.com

15 October 2010 : Hollywood actor Vince Vaughn has defended the controversial use of the word gay in his latest film, The Dilemma. Directed by Oscar-winner Ron Howard, the offending scene – which has now been edited from online versions of the trailer – sees Vaughn in a boardroom delivering a presentation about electric cars. He tells his colleagues: “Electric cars are gay. I mean, not homosexual gay, but my-parents-are-chaperoning-the-dance gay.” CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper first raised the issue on his TV show, Anderson Cooper 360°, after viewing a trailer for the movie. But Vaughn hit back at critics today. "Let me add my voice of support to the people outraged by the bullying and persecution of people for their differences, whatever those differences may be," he told Deadline.com. "Comedy and joking about our differences breaks tension and brings us together. Drawing dividing lines over what we can and cannot joke about does exactly that; it divides us. Most importantly, where does it stop?" Likewise, The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has urged its supporters to contact studio Universal and demand that the “offensive” promo be removed from cinemas. The film also stars Winona Ryder and is expected to be released in the UK in January 2011.

I have mixed feelings about this issue I must admit. There IS a fine line that people, such as comedians, cross back and forth to make us laugh at the expense of ourselves, and when we take things to extremes it might, in my opinion, be going a little TOO far either WITH or OFF the real issue.

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