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One School District's 's War on Gay Teens

Sat, 02/04/2012 - 14:22 — Dave Culver

  • The Anoka-Hennepin (MN) school district finds itself in the spotlight not only for the sheer number of suicides but because it is accused of having contributed to the death toll by cultivating an extreme anti-gay climate.
  • That denial (of a problem) reaches right up to the pinnacle of the local political food chain: Michele Bachmann, who stayed silent on the suicide cluster in her congressional district for months.
  • Neutrality is no answer for the bullied child

Sabrina Rubin Erdely, Rolling Stone

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Every morning, Brittany Geldert stepped off the bus and bolted through the double doors of Fred Moore Middle School, her nerves already on high alert, bracing for the inevitable.

"Dyke."

Pretending not to hear, Brittany would walk briskly to her locker, past the sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders who loitered in menacing packs.

"Whore."

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Neutrality is no answer for the bullied child, Jamie Nabozny, Minneapolis Star Tribune | MN

  • History has shown that so-called neutral  bystanders not only to be cowards but also to be partly responsible for lives that are lost and ruined in events like the Holocaust, slavery, apartheid.
  • Anoka-Hennepin School District (MN) sued over bullying
  • Allow my transgender son to use a safe restroom at school!
     
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Why Religious Conservatives Have Birth Control Benefits Wrong

Wed, 02/01/2012 - 12:44 — Dave Culver

In a country of alarmingly high unplanned pregnancy, American women need access to affordable birth control for economic and health reasons.

June Carbone and Naomi Cahn, AlterNet

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The Obama administration’s recent decision to require most religious-affiliated employers to cover birth control for their employees is good news for the women who work for religious employers and do not share the male hierarchy’s opposition to birth control. It is also good news for a country with the one of the highest unplanned pregnancy rates in the developed world.

More Than Just Using Condoms

Contraception, as every woman knows, is a system that depends on developing the right habits and getting consistent reinforcement from partners, parents and/or friends. In other words, effective contraception takes more work than simply remembering to use condoms. As a result, many women are more devoted to their gynecologists than other doctor in their lives – and gynecologists can be expensive. One of us visited hers after the birth of a third child. By the late thirties, pregnancy becomes riskier for mother and child and few families feel they can afford a fourth even on a law professor’s income. The gynecologist explained that methods of contraception that work for young women often don’t work as well after childbirth. The solution: an IUD. There was only one problem, the doctor sheepishly explained: It cost $400 and insurance wouldn’t cover it for an employee of a Catholic university. For a professional, $400 is not out of reach; for many women it is.

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Rick Santorum On Opposition To Abortion In Cases Of Rape: 'Make The Best Out Of A Bad Situation'

Wed, 01/25/2012 - 12:47 — Dave Culver

  • Santorum has crusaded against abortion throughout his tenure as a legislator and presidential hopeful. A recent analysis of his time as a U.S. senator showed an almost obsessive tendency to talk about abortion-related subjects on the Senate floor. His strict views on the issue, as well as gay rights, have repeatedly drawn aggressive pushback from his detractors on the campaign trail.
  • Sundance documentary examines rape in US military

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GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum explained his opposition to abortion even in cases of rape during an interview Friday, saying that women who face such circumstances should "make the best out of a bad situation."

Asked by CNN's Piers Morgan what he would do if his own daughter approached him, begging for an abortion after having been raped, Santorum explained that he would counsel her to "accept this horribly created" baby, because it was still a gift from God, even if given in a "broken" way.

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Sundance documentary examines rape in US military, Sandy Cohen, Associated Press / Daily Mail UK

  • Through interviews with rape survivors and military officials, "The Invisible War" suggests that it's not just the violence and harassment that traumatizes victims but the absence of impartial justice and personal retaliation they often experience after reporting the incident.
  • A 2009 study shows that only 8 percent of military sex offenders are prosecuted.
  • The Battlefield and the Barracks: Two War Fronts for Women Soldiers
     
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Chris Britt | Do what's right / content.cartoonbox.slate.com

Fri, 01/20/2012 - 16:32 — Dave Culver

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As Attacks on Planned Parenthood Aim for Sex-Ed Funding, Let's Remember How Bad Religious-Backed Abstinence Only Programs Are

Fri, 01/20/2012 - 16:20 — Dave Culver

  • Live Action and Lila Rose want to replace Planned Parenthood's sex-ed funding with false information and religious fundamentalist preaching.
  • In 2012 Bishops Join Fight to Repackage Discrimination as ‘Religious Freedom’

Andy Kopsa,  AlterNet

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It is being reported that Live Action’s Lila Rose is planning the next step in her ongoing effort to defund Planned Parenthood: take away its sex-ed money. Rose is lamenting the fact that Planned Parenthood got federal money to implement evidence-based comprehensive sex education via PREP funding (Personal Responsibility Education Program).  

In preparation for what may eventually be another Lila Rose grainy expose trumpeted by the Right, it’s helpful to brush up on where millions of tax dollars are going to pay for sex “education” -- ineffective and stigmatizing abstinence-only-until-marriage programs.

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In 2012 Bishops Join Fight to Repackage Discrimination as ‘Religious Freedom’ Sarah Posner, Religion Dispatches

  • Don’t be surprised if the “religious freedom” argument finds its way into conservative arguments about “big government” in 2012. It’s not just for the religious right anymore.
  • Protest against Cardinal George Gay Rights-KKK Comparison planned
  • Catholic bishops assault health and religious freedom
     
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Special Project | The War on Women and the GLBT Community: Week of January 15

Mon, 01/16/2012 - 11:27 — Dave Culver

Now, somehow, we’ve come to a decidedly indecent place that, yes, even in an emergency, a corporation’s beliefs are more important than a woman’s life.

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  • The Battlefield and the Barracks: Two War Fronts for Women Soldiers
  • In 2012 Bishops Join Fight to Repackage Discrimination as ‘Religious Freedom’
  • Anti-gay parents' league presents demands to Anoka-Hennepin (MN) schools
  • Protest against Cardinal George Gay Rights-KKK Comparison planned

David Culver, Ed., Evergreene Digest

Matt Davies

The Battlefield and the Barracks: Two War Fronts for Women Soldiers, H. Patricia Hynes, Truthout
"The crisis is so severe that I'm telling women to simply not join the military because it's completely unsafe and puts them at risk. Until something changes at the top, no woman should join the military." --Veteran April Fitzsimmons, victim of sexual assault

Anti-gay parents' league presents demands to Anoka-Hennepin schools, Maria Elena Baca, Minneapolis (MN) Star Tribune
The group wants Anoka-Hennepin (MN) 9school district) to assist students of "moral conviction" and to offer information on overcoming "sexual disorders."

In 2012 Bishops Join Fight to Repackage Discrimination as ‘Religious Freedom’ Sarah Posner, Religion Dispatches

  • Don’t be surprised if the “religious freedom” argument finds its way into conservative arguments about “big government” in 2012. It’s not just for the religious right anymore.
  • Protest against Cardinal George Gay Rights-KKK Comparison planned
  • Catholic bishops assault health and religious freedom

Protest against Cardinal George Gay Rights-KKK Comparison planned, Kate Sosin, Windy City (Chicago, IL) Times

  • George has reiterated his controversial re marks (that compared the gay liberation movement to the Ku Klux Klan) twice since the initial comment.
  • LGBT Activists To Protest Cardinal George Over KKK Comparison.
     
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