{"id":5868,"date":"2012-02-07T21:07:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T21:07:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-02-07T21:07:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T21:07:32","slug":"who-s-saving-minnesota-s-gay-teens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2012\/02\/who-s-saving-minnesota-s-gay-teens\/","title":{"rendered":"Who’s saving Minnesota’s gay teens?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rolling Stone describes the human cost of political gay-bashing: nine student suicides in two years in Michelle Bachmann\u2019s home district. The article<\/a> attributes this to the local School Board\u2019s embrace of a fervent anti-gay agenda. The suicides feed a climate of severe gay bullying in the schools, making life hell for some – while administrators did nothing to protect them. Gay kids in the district are caught in the crossfire of a culture war being waged by local evangelicals inspired by their high-profile congressional representative Michele Bachmann, who graduated from Anoka High School and a member of one of the most conservative churches in the area. When Christian activists who considered gays an abomination forced a measure through the school board forbidding the discussion of homosexuality in the district’s public schools, GLBTQ kids were unknowingly thrust into the heart of the clash.<\/p>\n

[via Rolling Stone<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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