SAFE SCHOOL PROPOSAL: TWO IA LAWMAKERS WANT TO EXCLUDE GAY AND LESBIAN STUDENTS: WHOtv.com

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Two Iowa legislators are getting heat from the gay community. The lawmakers want to remove protection to lesbians, gay and transgender students from the Safe Schools Law, in and effort to reverse the Iowa's Supreme Court decision to legalize same-sex marriage. ...

Last April, one of the reasons the Iowa Supreme Court pointed to for legalizing same sex marriage, were bills like the Safe Schools Act, which protects gay and lesbian students. He wants to take out the wording in the Safe Schools Act, and all Iowa legislation, so lawmakers can debate same sex marriage on the floor. ...

"People smeared paint on my locker and pushed me in the hallway and I've been made fun of for who I am. Why would lawmakers want that to continue? Why wouldn't they want to protect me and better my education and time in my community?" says gay Stephen Boatwright.

Rep. Schultz admits the bill won't go anywhere, but that's not the point. He hopes it will renew the efforts to make same sex marriage illegal here in Iowa, and start a debate on the house floor sometime this session.

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[Eve says: I get that slopes can be slippery. And I get that maybe people can feel tricked, when they support a really basic anti-bullying bill which identifies one of the most bullied classes in our country, and then their support of that bill is played as support for gay marriage.

[What I don't get is thinking that slopes only slip one way. How can you explicitly act to remove protection from gay students without thinking this will increase abuse of gay students--which hi there, is against Biblical teaching? This whole thing is especially heartbreaking to me because I oppose gay marriage, and yet--or, I'd say, and therefore--I'm especially concerned with anti-gay bullying. It seems to me like the best example of what the theologians mean when they use the phrase, "objective counter-witness." This bill gives aid and comfort to the Enemy. And I used the capital letter on purpose.

[--Eve's opinion]

Labels: adolescence, children, culture, gay marriage, Iowa, religion, schools

posted by Eve at 12:56 AM VOTE

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