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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-11 10:25 AM
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Tea Party Nation: Gay teens aren't being bullied, they're receiving "healthy peer pressure"
The tea party group is now pushing another attack on gays and lesbians, this time from Rich Swier, an activist with TPN and the anti-Muslim group ACT! For America, who previously warned that the U.S. is facing white “extinction.” In a post sent to TPN members, Swier rails against a Florida group that introduced an anti-bullying initiative, arguing that being gay is just like being a drug addict and that the bullying of LGBT youth is a “sham,” because “this is not bullying. It is peer pressure and is healthy”:


Gulf Coast Gives is working to raise funds to bring homosexual activist Hudson Taylor to Sarasota, FL. According to their website:

"77% of all bullying victims are picked on due to sexual orientation, gender identity, or the perception of either. LGBT youth are up to five times more likely to attempt suicide than their straight counterparts. ALSO Out Youth is the only LGBT youth organization serving both Sarasota and Manatee Counties, providing advocacy, leadership, support, and outreach since 1992. Please support ALSO in bringing Hudson Taylor to Sarasota. Hudson, an outstanding athlete, is a committed LGBT advocate and founder of Athlete Ally."

The problem is the entire bullying campaign is a sham created by radical gay activist Kevin Jennings. Jennings is the founder of the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN). As MassResistance.org reports, "The homosexual movement in the public schools has always been based on lies and deception. But until the mid-1990s, they were still having difficulty getting into the schools. Then they found the key to their huge success -- what they call 're-framing the issue'".

This is not bullying. It is peer pressure and is healthy.


http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tea-party-nations-anti-gay-campaign-continues-group-likens-gays-drug-addicts
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-11 10:32 AM
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1. Recommended
And don't forget we had some supposedly liberal fringe elements suggesting we should join up with this bunch because they were downtrodden folks, "just like us."

Never forget that.

Don
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Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-11 10:38 AM
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2. Then it would be OK to beat up teabaggers we disagree with?
To show them the error of their ways.

I'll keep that in mind. :thumbsup:
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hifiguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-11 10:40 AM
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3. Are these idiots kidding?
:wtf:
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immoderate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-11 10:49 AM
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4. Who would have guessed that the intent of "peer pressure" is to induce suicide?
--imm :shrug:
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Fleshdancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-11 10:52 AM
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5. This is sick.
You have to be one disgusting and pathetic excuse for a human being if you think this is "healthy".
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Erose999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-11 11:17 AM
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6. Now that these violent radicals are coming out of the woodwork, will the mainstream politicians


finally step up and defend LBGT rights and pass some hate crime legislation? Jeesus...
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johnnypneumatic Donating Member (461 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-11 12:43 PM
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9. the hate crimes bill passed, it is just not being enforced
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-11 11:39 AM
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7. "Then they found the key to their huge success -- what they call 're-framing the issue'.
This is not bullying. It is peer pressure and is healthy.

This is also 're-framing the issue', but of course we regressives never admit when WE do it, we just accuse the other side of doing it. This is the newest authorized talking point from the RNC, but 'shhhh' - it's supposed to be grass-roots."
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Still Sensible Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-11 11:42 AM
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8. Well then it's time for us to put
some "healthy peer pressure" beatdowns on those teabag assholes.
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AndyTiedye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-11 12:44 PM
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10. Their Kids are Bullies, They Were When they were Kids, They Come from a Long Line of Bullies
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Stevenmarc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-11 01:16 PM
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11. That's pretty rich considering the teabaggers always whine about being victimized
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