And thanks to Feministe today for helping me to see that this tiny world I exist in is just a small part of a big picture.
Shame on you, Jay Mohr. Really.
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Judge Adams hands down a decision on the preliminary injunction.
“This is a victory for our clients, for the Yulee High GSA, and indeed for gay and straight kids all across America,” said Robert Rosenwald, ACLU of Florida LGBT Advocacy Project Director and lead counsel for the students. “Time and time again, we’ve seen discrimination and intolerance struck down by the courts in these cases, and for every school that wishes to cross the line, we’ll be here to defend the students.”
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my daughter, national hero
The best part was when the reporter asked her if she was “openly gay” at school and she replied “that’s not relevant. let’s move on”
AP Story
Local Story, teaser. Print version will be in tomorrow’s Times Union.
From last week’s Folio Weekly editor’s letter:
There’s nothing more dispiriting than a dumb educator. Not just because of what it portends for the minds of his or her students, but because stupidity is itself a record of failure. It takes years of cultivated ignorance and neglect to grow a dull brain, and it makes for a miserable inheritance. Unfortunately, Nassau County School Superintendent John Ruis appears ready to pass his handicap to a new generation.
Last week, Ruis chose to invest in bigotry and intolerance, and to endow that investment with money that might otherwise be used to pay for books and teachers. In a Jan. 27 letter to lawyers representing two Yulee High School students, Ruis said that the district would forbid use of the word “gay” in the title of a proposed student club. The students want to start a Gay-Straight Alliance, a club whose very purpose is to help dispel the fear and hatred that fuel gay stereotypes, and to help promote tolerance and compassion. Ruis, apparently willful in his determination to see what is not there, says the club, by acknowledging “specific sexual orientation,” violates school board policy. He doesn’t cite what policy, but presumably it offends his narrow sensibilities to admit that gay students exist.
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How to Make Friends in a Small Town
Encourage your 14 year old daughter’s foray into extra curricular activities by hosting the first-ever meeting of the local GSA.
Help edit and print the first edition of Rainbow Express, the official newsletter of said GSA
Welcome to the teenage years in small town America.
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