The applicants made it clear the space wouldn’t be just for LGBTQ+ students. It would be for anyone who needs to “just breathe for a second,” said one of the students who confronted the adults Nov. 14.
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The grant asks for just one thing — that they identify the sponsors, something that every grant does, one school board member reminded the room. In this case, it would be with one simple phrase anywhere in the space: “It Gets Better.”
Saving the Children by not allowing them to receive money to prevent Suicide!
Compare and contrast with the Biden administration to save the children by keeping lead out of their drinking water.
Nah, Sleepy Joe is just trying to prevent kids from getting the lead they need to become Republicans when they grow up. Pretty tyrannical when you think about it! /s
Not those children!
Conservatives have always encouraged gay youth and any other kids who “aren’t cool” to kill themselves.
Conservatives delight in the idea of “defective” children committing suicide. This is why conservatives have worked so hard to defund or sabotage suicide prevention efforts nationwide for the last 20 years.
#JustConservativeThings
Incidentally they also push suicide on anyone that might cost them money, veterans, the ill and injured, the working class as a whole.
Absolute ghouls.
Nah, ghouls are just scavengers. These people are stochastic murderers.
Another proud moment for Christianity
I hope the members of that school board who supported its rejection are exposed and mercilessly harassed by the internet so they never know another day of peace in their miserable lives until they finally succumb to the pressure and do the world a favor by deciding to exit it.
That town is too far under the heel of Liberty University and Lynchburg Christian Academy for them to suffer much consequence.
Be the consequence you wish to see them experience
Unfortunately, I can’t point at a place on the map and say "Volcano time a-go-go baby!’ and have a volcano spontaneously erupt there.
Try harder
No, you need something more precise. A volcanic eruption would harm bystanders.
I can’t afford a space laser.
Have you considered a conversion to Judaism? According to at least one member of Congress that seems to help!
Drat! Capitalism strikes again
part of the conservative platform is bullying queer people into suicide. this is because american conservatives are monsters who have no place in a functioning society.
Why is there no group out there exposing these fake Christians for the heathens that they are?
rips off the mask
There’s just another Christian under here!
“Nyahhh! And I would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for you meddling kids!”
These are Christians. Christians can’t hide behind No True Scotsman, deciding every time one of them is a despicable piece of shit that they aren’t “real”
There are two potential answers to this and they both suck:
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The “God is love” Christian majority doesn’t hold the extreme nationalist/dominionist Christians accountable.
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The extremists ARE the Christian majority.
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Shit like this makes me truly believe that the GOP needs to be an illegal operation.
I really wish they would give at least a tiny bit of context to this summary. It would be nice to just know if it was purely malicious or if it was due to some sort of bureaucratic nonsense where they have some sort of strict rules in place that forces them to refuse grants of any kind or something.
Either way it would be ridiculous to refuse… But for fuck’s sake at least offer a little bit of context… The summary here just reads like pure outrage porn…
Pitchforks and torches are fucking tiring to carry around all the damn time…
Edit: just read the full article and yeah that’s fucked up… school board voted against the grant because of the organization it was coming from and clearly had no desire to evaluate the project on its own merits… The dissenting opinion from one member of the board is actually a really good one and would recommend anyone curious to go read it.
You know, I feel like there was a time before Trump when I could look at an outrage headline and assume the truth was more nuanced. It usually did work out that way. After some point, not only was there no nuance to it, but the truth was even worse than the headline let on.
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Meh, the world was crazy before Trump and it’s going to remain crazy long after he is gone. I didn’t care for the guy all that much but I can’t see the point in treating him like some giant milestone in American politics.
People thought it was insane that we elected an actor to serve as President just a few decades ago and acted in much the same way then as people act about Trump today.
Well, for starters he was the first president to try to retain the office despite losing an election.
We should never normalize that.
Lol, well that narrative appears to have taken a deep turn away from reality.
You guys do understand that from the middle the insane propaganda of the right is nearly indistinguishable from the stuff coming from the left, right?
Plenty of elections have been contested… There is no evidence that I’ve seen of an attempt towards a coup d’etat.
I don’t like the guy either but holy crap… I mean a good chunk of his military administration didn’t even necessarily like the guy. I know General Goldfein personally, he wouldn’t have allowed Trump to stage a coup… That man was and is about as honorable a general as one could ask for.
You can oppose Trump and also not fall for media sensationalism, I promise you will be okay.
I think it’s possible you may be young enough that you don’t know or remember the controversy surrounding Reagan, or Bush, or Clinton, or Bush again. I mean Reagan was so controversial that people tried to assassinate him and there media was reporting he was mentally unfit in his second term. Reaganomics was incredibly controversial and Democrats in that day treated it almost the same way that the Republicans today are treating Bidenomics.
Trust me in the grand scheme of American politics Trump isn’t wildly unique. I offer those words to everyone not in his defense, because fuck that guy, but in hopes of inspiring a little more calm in the world because it ain’t healthy for any of us to be this outraged all the time. All it does is just make us all more vulnerable to being manipulated.
You can try to gaslight people all you want.
We all saw what happened.
I read the legal case that his administration made.
We know what the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers were up to that day, and why.
His own lawyer said he wasn’t going to leave.
Pretending otherwise doesn’t make it reality.
Normalizing it is collaboration.
Why don’t you ask that bleeding-heart leftist Liz Cheney what the fuck he was up to?
I didn’t see any dissenting opinion in the article. I really can’t fathom what the could but up as a valid defense of this.
Is hope indoctrination?
“I don’t know where this started that it’s going to be indoctrination and talk about sexuality,” said Sharon Carter, one of only two school board members who voted in favor of the grant that night.
Ooohh, ok, I misunderstood what you meant. I thought you were referring to one of the troglodytes who voted to reject the funds… that they had an opinion worth reading. Got it!
No no… this is the dissenting opinion I was referring to…
“We as a board are making it more controversial than it has to be,” said board member Anthony Andrews, who complimented the kids for doing exactly what we want our young people to do: show leadership and initiative, identify problems and find solutions. “If we vote no on this, we send the message that we don’t trust the students."
We need solid journalism. But with everyone conditioned for years now to crave outrage reporting, there’s not enough demand for unbiased facts.
My hope is that this is a temporary growing pain as we wrap our heads around having the internet in our lives.
Looks like the next generation of this town is going to be voting solidly blue from now on.
Unfortunately none of them will stay in the town. They will move to blue states.
Or kill themselves. It’s really funny how easy people think it is to move to blue states. Suicide is often a much easier and more appealing option tbh.
You have a point and suicide rates are up, last year was the highest they’ve been since WWII https://time.com/5609124/us-suicide-rate-increase
What can I do to help these perfectly reasonable folks?
IDGAF that they are teenagers, that’s irrelevant. Anything I can do to validate, support, etc I’m willing.
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At least they know for sure it’ll get better when they leave Lynchburg.
If a writer named the town with the comically evil school board ‘Lynchburg,’ people would probably think it was too obvious.
You know that it’s named that because the founder is John Lynch, right?
People had the name long before anyone associated it to murder…
John Lynch was born in 1971
Lynching has been in use since 1836
Correct
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