Kids‘ ’Straight Pride’ Shirts Draw Ire During Anti-Bullying Week in Chicago
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An “anti-bullying” initiative at a Chicago suburb high school didn’t go quite how organizers had planned. And now the school board could be in for a battle that might involve hate speech, free speech, and gay pride.
This week, students in St. Charles High School were asked to wear purple shirts this week in defiance of gay bullying (dubbed “Ally Week”). On Monday, however, three students instead showed up with shirts that said “straight pride,” which inlcuded a Bible verse from Leviticus advocating death as a punishment for homosexual activity.
In response, the school asked the students to black out portions of the verse. Without incidence, the students obliged. Yet the next day two other students showed up to school with homemade “Straight Pride” shirts — excluding the Biblical passage. Administrators then asked them to cover up the shirts with sweatshirts. They did.
But despite complying with administrators’ requests on both occasions, over 150 Facebook users have now promised to attend next month’s Board of Education meeting “to address the ‘Straight Pride’ shirts some students wore this week and how the administration handled the situation,” the Kane County Chronicle reports.
“We do not, as a student body, tolerate bullying and harassment happening at our school, and we want better plans in action for how to deal with situations like this,” senior Amanda Harshbarger, the creator of the Facebook event titled “SCN Students Against Bullying at CUSD 303 School Board Meeting,” told the Chronicle.
According to the board, the topic is not on the agenda but can be discussed during open comments and new business.
“People saw that as a potential threat and extremely intimidating,” Harshbarger told the Chronicle regarding the Bible verse.
She objects to how the situation was handled by administrators, who did not punish the shirt-wearing students. Rather, administrators told the students they had a right to express an opinion and belief, but said they should be sensitive to how others perceive that message.
Despite the objections, administrators are now hailing “Ally Week” as a success. “While it may have been a little bit controversial at times, the kids at North are talking about this,” Jim Blaney, director of school and community relations for St. Charles Unit District 303, told the Chicago Tribune. “They are learning about people who might have a different opinion than theirs.”
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Comments (179)
henryKnox
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:35amHopefully, this ridiculous school doesn’t get taxpayer money. If I paid taxes to this school I would be at their office demanding that they concentrate on Math and Science instead of social engineering propaganda. There are churches and synagogues in the community that are well prepared to deal with these issues.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:30amThe school is guilty of bullying during Anti-Bullying week. Pass the duct tape, my head is going to explode.
Report Post »Southern Rebel
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:44amThank you Gonzo for seeing the obvious. The very ones trying to run a ‘don’t bully’ campaign, do exactly that. Isn’t the entire concept of political correctness and liberalism exactly that? “Do as I say, not as I do”?
Report Post »clh1217
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:24amI love the idea of wearing “Straight Pride” t-shirts. If my children’s school decides to advocate a day of wearing “Gay Pride” clothing, …this will be the day my children will wear “straight pride” clothing. No way should a public school advocate “Gay Pride” by allowing SHIRTS to be worn, when kids in Cali are getting sent home for wearing American flags on a t-shirt on Cinco de Mayo. If they want equality, then be ready for EQUALITY. Do not expect MORE than simply equal.
Report Post »cap01
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:30amBut this begs the simple question – why do you assume all of your children are straight?
Report Post »clh1217
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:43amI don’t. It is a matter of equality. Why advocate/promote one, and not the other? This parallels alleged so called “religious freedoms” we are supposed to be experiencing.
Report Post »HUGGINGMYBABIES
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:55amReread that article…..I’m not sure there is mention of the purple shirts stating GAY PRIDE on them. Which makes me wonder again why the school felt the need to have an entire week to speak out against just GAY bullying. I can see why then the Straight Pride shirts might raise some brows (but totally dig these kids and the message). Bullying in general is wrong so why not teach kids that bullying comes in all forms, from racial, political, religious to sexual angels. I’d have worn a “stop political bullying” t-shirt with Rachel Madcow’s face on it!!
Report Post »trink509
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:22amThis is what happens when you try to designate a protected class of people. Bullying is wrong, but it is just as wrong when it happens for non-sexual orientation reasons. Elevating gay bullying diminishes other bullying and school officials don’t seem to be too concerned with the feelings of those children who are bullied for generic reasons (btw, bullies bully because they are bullies).
It is not surprising to me that you would ALSO receive push back when you try to promote the rights of one group (homosexuals) at the expense of another (Christians). People have a right to raise their children with their own belief system without the public schools’ interference. Attempting to retain your rights is not homophobic. The group, at this point in history, who is threatening that right happens to be the radical homosexual community. The reaction would be the same regardless of where the threat comes.
Report Post »seanpatriot
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:21amThese liberals are pushing us to our triggers
cap01
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:20amReally? You’re upset because some people use the color purple to represent their cause? You know what upsets me? Kids killing themselves because they’re being brought into a society that sees them as less than American. That’s what upsets me.
Hopefully this can start to change once people can openly serve in the military, which now seems closer than ever.
Report Post »clh1217
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:30amGays can openly serve. And do. Homosexuals are protected against discrimination at this time due to DADT. To get ride of it now would create discrimination.
Report Post »Josh
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:49amWhy do they have to force their sexuality on us? Why do people in the military have to be openly gay? I don’t go around to everyone and say hey I am a heterosexual, or hey, i like girls. Why to gay people have to tell everyone that they are gay. Just shut up and have your preference. Nobody cares. What people don’t like is you jackasses pushing it on our kids and our schools.
Knightofhopex
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:18amFreedom of speech is freedom of speech. If you don‘t like a kid’s shirt just don’t look at it. It’s time these liberal hypocrites were made to practice some tolerance of their own. Punks.
Report Post »moonpeace
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:13amLet me say this. I don’t believe we should speak openly about our sexuality or lack of it,whichever is the case. Nobody needs to know whether we are hetero or ****, and I don’t understand why so many people feel they need to identify their sexuality as part of a personal introduction. Must we wear signs to let everybody know where we stand with our sexual preferences. I think that would be stupid. Does everyone we meet need to know; does our boss need to know; our neighbors; our friends. We are inviting trouble when we advertise our sexual preferences, and we should save that information for the person we are thinking about or hoping of becoming involved with. If we go around letting the world know our sexual preferences then we shouldn‘t get upset when we learn that some people don’t agree with our choices, and we find that some will hold this against us or laugh at us, make fun of us, or start rumors about us. Sex is personal, should only be between us and another, and we need to keep it that way or be prepared to accept the consequences.
Report Post »lookn4nrml
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:10amWhen did purple become the gay color? Who agreed to that? So if I wear purple I am supporting it or saying I am? Why do they get to take over?
Report Post »son-of-liberty
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:19amyeah, i agree, Purple in ancient times was the color of royalty…why is it now the color of homosexuality? Straight guys wear purple too
Report Post »spirited
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 1:59pmAs Jihad “has different meanings” -Obama,
….so does the color purple.
The Catholic Church has historically held purple as the primary sanctuary color of Lent and Advent
because it is associated with mourning (the pain and suffering of the crucifixion)
and because purple is the colour associated with royalty.
This is the color of penitence and fasting as well as the color of royalty to welcome the Advent of the King.
Advent is the beginning of the Church Year for most churches in the Western tradition. It begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas Day, which is the Sunday nearest November 30, and ends on Christmas Eve (Dec 24). If Christmas Eve is a Sunday, it is counted as the fourth Sunday of Advent, with Christmas Eve proper beginning at sundown.
>There is a movie titled: The Color Purple
>Purple represents bi-sexuality on gay-pride flag: blue=hetero purple=bi pink=****
>Lavender is associated with homosexuality (with heart= love & common humanity to all people)
>Some excerpts about purple according to Wikipedia:
Purple hues of color occurring between red and blue.
In additive light combinations it occurs by mixing the primary colors red and blue in varying proportions.
It is a secondary color due to the fact that two colors (blue and red) make up this color.
In subtractive pigments it can be equal to the primary color magenta or be formed by mixing magenta with the colors red or blue, or by mixing just the latter two, in which case a color of low saturation will result. Low saturation will also be caused by adding a certain quantity of the third primary color (green for light or yellow for pigment). There is a disagreement over exactly which shades can be described as purple, some people preferring more precise terms such as magenta or heliotrope for particular shades. A difference in retinal sensitivity to red and blue light between individuals can cause further disagreement.
In color theory, a “purple” is defined as any non-spectral color between violet and red (excluding violet and red themselves).
The spectral colors violet and indigo are not purples according to color theory but they are purples according to common English usage since they are between red and blue.
In art, purple is the color on the color wheel between magenta and violet and its tints and shades. This color, electric purple, is shown below.
In human color psychology, purple is also associated with royalty and nobility (stemming from classical antiquity when Tyrian Purple was only affordable to the elites).
Etymology and definitions
Murex brandaris or spiny dye-murexThe word ‘purple’ comes from the Old English word purpul which originates from the Latin purpura. This in turn is derived from the Koine Greek πορφύρα (porphyra), name of the Tyrian purple dye manufactured in classical antiquity from a mucus secreted by the spiny dye-murex snail.[6]
The first recorded use of the word ‘purple’ in English was in the year A.D. 975.[7]
Tyrian purple: Classical antiquity
Byzantine Emperor Justinian I clad in Tyrian purple, 6th-century mosaic at Basilica of San VitaleThe actual color of Tyrian purple, the original color purple from which the name purple is derived, is the color of a dye made from a mollusc that in classical antiquity became a symbol of royalty because only the very wealthy could afford it.
Therefore, Tyrian purple was also called imperial purple.
Tyrian purple may have been discovered as early as the time of the Minoan civilization.
Alexander the Great (when giving imperial audiences as the Emperor of the Macedonian Empire), the emperor of the Seleucid Empire, and the kings of Ptolemaic Egypt all wore Tyrian purple.
The imperial robes of Roman emperors were Tyrian purple trimmed in metallic gold thread.
The badge of office of a Roman Senator was a stripe of Tyrian purple on their white toga.[12]
Tyrian purple was continued in use by the emperors of the Eastern Roman Empire until its final collapse in 1453.
Han purple: Ancient China
Han purple is a type of artificial pigment found in China between 500 BC and AD 220. It was used in the decoration of the Terracotta Army.
The graduated colors of crocus cultivars can appear as han purple in direct sunlight.
Royal purple: Medieval Europe
This shade of purple is bluer than the ancient Tyrian purple.
In medieval Europe, blue dyes were rare and expensive,[14] so only the most wealthy or the aristocracy could afford to wear them.
(The working class wore mainly green and brown.)
Because of this (and also because Tyrian purple had gone out of use in western Europe after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in AD 476), Europeans’ idea of purple shifted towards this more bluish purple known as royal purple because of its similarity to the royal blue worn by the aristocracy.
This was the shade of purple worn by kings in medieval Europe.
Artists’ pigment purple (red-violet): 1930s
‘Royal purple’ or the dark violet color known as generic purple is the common layman’s idea of purple, but professional artists, following Munsell color system (introduced in 1905 and widely accepted by 1930), regard purple as being synonymous with the red-violet color shown at right, in order to clearly distinguish purple from violet and thus have access to a larger palette of colors[citation needed].
This red-violet color, called artist’s purple by artists, is the pigment color that would be on a pigment color color wheel between pigment violet and pigment (process) magenta.
In the Munsell color system, this color at its maximum chroma of 12 is called Red-Purple, or more specifically Munsell 5RP.
Artists’ pigments and colored pencils labeled as purple are colored the red-violet color.
Electric purple: 2000s
This color, electric purple, is precisely halfway between violet and magenta and thus fits the artistic definition of purple.[16]
Using additive colors such as those on computer screens, it is possible to create a much brighter purple than with pigments where the mixing subtracts frequencies from the component primary colors.
The equivalent color on a computer to the pigment color red-violet would be this electric purple, i.e. the much brighter purple you can see reproduced on the screen of a computer.
This color is pure purple conceived as computer artists conceive it, as the pure chroma on the computer screen color wheel halfway between color wheel violet and electric magenta.
Thus, electric purple is the purest and brightest purple that it is possible to display on a computer screen.
An old name for this color, used by Robert Ridgway in his 1912 book on color nomenclature, Color Standards and Color Nomenclature, is true purple. [17]
Computer web color purples
This purple used in HTML and CSS actually is deeper and has a more reddish hue (#800080) than the X11 color purple (X11 color) (#A020F0), which is bluer and brighter.
This color may be called HTML/CSS purple.
It seems likely that this color was chosen as the web color purple because its hue is exactly halfway between red and blue and its value is exactly halfway between white and black.
>Ironically:
A traditional name sometimes used for this tone of purple is patriarch.
The first recorded use of patriarch as a color name in English was in 1925.[18]-Wickipedia
>Color psychology is [even more] fascinating
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 5:58pm@spirited…….geeze…….you gotta be kidding? lol
Report Post »JaneLovesJesus
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:44pmFor that matter, who agreed to let them co-opt the word gay? I’m taking back the word gay; they can keep homosexual. And rainbows! I’m taking back rainbows :)
Report Post »hiplainsdrifter
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:10amWhat did we ever do before these politically correct ninnies took over?
Kudos to “Straight Pride!”
Report Post »spirited
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:58pmWalk-in closets were in fewer master-bedrooms.
Report Post »Devilmist
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:08amThe other comments are 100% right. If you white, straight,and a christian then shut up and sit down. The time for that much tolerance is OVER. I speak my mind where ever I am. Why shouldn’t I, every other freak and abnormal person out here does. Ever since that homosexual won survivor and pranced around the entire show. They began full force shoving this in our faces. My kid knows, you don‘t shove your opinion in others faces but you SURE don’t let them run over you and try to force you to believe all these forms of sin are the right thing. This one of the reasons this country has ended up where it is now. All of this PC crap and tolerance has led to the down fall of a entire country.
Report Post »SND97
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:08amI am a STRAIGHT MAN, and DAMN proud of it, I LOVE GOD, and very proud of him, I AM A CHRISTIAN…
Now if I posted that on the Louisville Liberal Newspaper (Courier-Journal) web site, it would be against their Derogatory comment policy and scratched off a hate speech, I wish I was joking,
Report Post »kickmore
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:07amPatriots, here are the two best concepts I can come up with: private schools, uniforms.
Report Post »HUGGINGMYBABIES
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:13amI am right there with you. I don’t even care what it costs anymore. I‘ll take two more jobs to insure my son attends a school where this won’t even be an issue……we have RESPECT BEINGS WITH ME t-shirt day and I think that’s really all a school needs.
Report Post »HippoNips
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:00amThere is NO such thing as rights coming from what turns you on
Report Post »There are no heterosexual rights and no homosexual rights.
The whole idea of sexual rights is assuredly causing Rev.Dr Martin Luther King Jr turn over in his grave. Especailly when these “gay rights” are called the same as racial equality.
mikem1969
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 10:56amOMG, the gays can wear gay pride T-shirts, but the straights can’t wear straight pride T-shirts. Hmm, do I smell another double standard where one side preaches tolerance, but tolerates nothing that does not agree with them.
Report Post »Proud American in Buffalo
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 4:33pmWith the lefties it’s always “Do what I say, not what I do. The hypocrasy of these people knows no bounds.
Report Post »libertyordeath87
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 10:53ambut said they should be sensitive to how others perceive that message.
So Christians have to be sensitive and have to cover up their shirts while **** have the right to march around proclaiming their message openly and with the backing of the school admin?
Something is out of whack here and the school board should be brought to task over this.
Proud American in Buffalo
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 10:52amLet me get this straight. It’s ok to shove gay rights in our face but a contraian viewpoint is just plain wrong??. The Bible verse might have been over the to in my opinion however I do not believe that a person’s sexual orientation, gay or straight should be any one damn business. As Dr Martin Luther King said a person’s “content of character” should matter above all else.
Report Post »I know I’ll be branded a Homophobe because of my comments but I really dont care.
BurntHills
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 1:08pmas a normal straight American family with 2 cousins who chose to be gay, let us tell ya, with one of them it was a sexual CHOICE out of defiance and the deviate need to shock, embarass and disgust. and believe us, it can get DISGUSTING. finally the family has come to the decision that bitter democrat gay does not need to come back around here and be spouting ”gay pride” around our youngest kids and fully attemping to indoctrinate the gradeschoolers and teens about the “joy” of being gay.. esp at a Holiday table.
We finally told a curious-questions teenage relative if you want to listen to them and ”try” being gay, sure, you don’t even need to leave home either, just go out to the cattle pen and stick your -x- in the cow manure. or kiss on the back end of that cow there. same thing, kid. it’s all for Attention.
and what’s with purple, it’s our school colors and was our wedding colors, and purple will never mean ”gay”, after all, they ruined the entire frickin ”RAINBOW”.
Report Post »Red1492
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 10:51amAs a supporter of gay rights I am also a supporter of free speech. Gays don’t have a monopoly on pride. If you’re straight and want to wear a Straight Pride T-Shirt, more power to ya. Kind of funny. However, it does make them look bad when they print biblical quotes to support their pride. Kind of makes them look Westboro Baptist. I mean, you don’t see our troops wearing uniforms going to battle with: KSV verse:
Samaria shall become desolate; for she has rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
HippoNips
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 10:48amLeviticus does not advocate for the death of people in homosexual activity.
Report Post »It says that the act shall surely bring death and their blood shall be upon them.
It doesn’t say God will kill them, nor that anyone else should
In the 1970′s progressive social engineers rewrote the Bible , paraphrasing it instead of using a literal translation. …“the new international version” Many other paraphrased versions were written after that.
They changed must of the Bible to include a condemnation of what was occuring at the time…the sexual revolution ..and they rewroted added verses to include the notion of “social justice”
Only the King James version or before are literal translations and are the ONLY ones actual Christians use.
The NIV for instance is used by The Salvation Army and if you go to their website you will notice that it has very little about Jesus but does push”social justice
jimbo052
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 6:57pmamen, it‘s funny how people want to pervert GOD’S word to suit their own needs.
Report Post »Citizen
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 10:47amwhy did the school want them to support gay pride ? what purpose does that have in school ?
they want to bring up the subject but then dont like peoples response – poor lost school trying to step out of its bounds.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:54pmMaybe there should be a mandate that all parents and their children wear purple shirts at home one night a week; to teach tolerance, acceptance and the wrongness of sexual orientation bullying.
or
Throughout the school year each week will pay homage to a different social or personal issue:
Report Post »1st week) Purple shirts that say ‘proud to be gay’ worn by all students
2nd week) Yellow shirts that say ‘proud to be happy” worn by all students
3rd week) All students wear what ever color shirt they want, with what ever words they each want.
4th week) All students go without shirts
spirited
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 1:02pmNote:
Report Post »The 1st week is unique
> Because all ‘Public’ schools should be considered ‘Special Needs’
dkhartman
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 10:47am“should be sensitive to how others perceive that message.” ?? REALLY? Soooooooo free speech UNTIL it hurts someones feelings.. BUT ONLY if it hurts someones feelings who isn’t a CHRISTIAN??? Muslims, egnostics, and athiests can express anything and we MUST tolerate it…. but Christians?? NOPE no sir you must push your beliefs to the back seat so others don’t get hurt…
Report Post »Screw PC – free speech is free speech.
Free speech isn‘t left up to how we ’perceive’ things…. Gah
mikem1969
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 10:58amAmen to that liberty.
Report Post »BSdetector
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:02amWho was it again that said “The only speech that NEEDS protecting, is unpopular speech”?
Report Post »If it was popular, it wouldn’t need protecting. Eat that schoolboard!
NoName22
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:04pmBHO out preaching to the Muslim world that the United States will never be at war with Islam.
Doesn‘t mean the United States won’t be at war with Christianity.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 10:47amGet ready for:
Straight pride is a lie. You can’t be proud of oppression. Straights are not an oppressed class.
HippoNips
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 10:54amHomosexuals are not a class of people , neither are heterosexuals.
Report Post »The entire idea of garnering rights or pride from your sexual inclinations is ridiculous.
George1
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:00amI feel pretty oppressed when feeling that homosexuality is wrong, but totally the individual’s choice, that I am a crazed racist bigot neanderthal. You can be as homosexual as you want, and do whatever is associated with that, but stop trying to force me to agree that it is morally correct. I don’t agree, just leave me alone.
Report Post »BJH
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:47amI disagree with you on that. We are being oppressed by the gay community. Pushers of their agenda are trying to suppress our opinions of their lifestyle. Bullying is wrong period, leave out the specially selected groups for consideration of the subject of bullying.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:55pmhomosexuals are self-loathing deviates who want to parade around, indoctrinate our youngest little children, and stand out on the streetcorners and embarass others by their public sexial deviance.
we cannot put them out of their deviate misery and they want to keep it in our faces. sad all the way around. Rome fell to sexual deviance, and that is what is happening to our beautiful America . they are so disgusting, and these teens want to be ‘cool’ so they are getting indoctrinated.. and they will all be wearing Depends* in 10 years. .
homosexuality is not a political party, it is not a race, and it is not a religion. it is a sick need to publicly disgust Others and indoctrinate innocent little children in an attempt to RUIN their lives as well. .
as for ”STRAIGHT PRIDE” , that sounds like a very good movement to start.
Report Post »Blacktooth
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 5:20pmBurntHills, Your frustration over this matter is completely understandable. It is so terrible to watch our human society go down to the filthy gutter so eagerly and with no restraint. Rest assured that many of us sympathize with your distress.
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 5:55pmGay pride is also a lie. Is it really a show of pride to dance down the street in a parade with the seat cut out of your pants. More like self abasement.
Report Post »Country
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 10:46amThe shirts were not appropriate, neither were the purple shirts.
DESCENDENT
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:07amTrue…
Report Post »…The protest however, under the circumstances, was justified.
son-of-liberty
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:20amhow were they not appropriate? Plenty of people wear ‘gay pride’ shirts…what is wrong with being proud of being straight?
Report Post »Country
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:02pm@son-of-liberty, It was not appropriate to were a shirt that was stated in the article, “which included a Bible verse from Leviticus advocating death as a punishment for homosexual activity.” I am not sure what verse it is speaking of, but wearing such it shirt? Come on, would you let you kid wear a shirt like that? As far as the purple shirts, it was inappropriate for the school to pressure any kid to wear it. It is not just gay kids bullied anyways.
Report Post »rlmeals
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 3:48pmI think I have to side with the shirts being a little inappropriate. Wait a minute, hear me out. I am sick of the homosexual community slamming their lifestyle down my throat. I am a Christian and I think they are living in sin. I can’t stand Christians who say that there is nothing wrong with being gay. God still loves you, yes, but he hates the sin. And it is written in no uncertain terms in the bible that homosexuality is a sin. He calls for us to “go and sin no more,” so if you are a Christian but still practicing that lifestyle, then you are choosing to live in sin, and sin separates us from God.
That being said, the verse on the shirt was uncalled for. I can only assume which one it is, since it is not mentioned, but its probably Lev. 20:13, which reads, “And if a man lie with mankind, as with womankind, both of them have committed abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.” A more appropriate verse would be Lev. 18:22: “Do not practice homosexuality; it is a detestable sin.”
Even though I truly don’t think these students were wishing death upon the gay students, I think the verse was in poor taste. Even Christians are divided on the “interpretations” of scripture, but I believe that the laws of the Old Testament no longer apply to us. They were a part of the Covenant God made with Israel. When Christ was crucified for our sin, he was the living sacrifice for us, we no longer were condemned to death for our sins. All the ten commandments and many other commandment are given in the New Testament as to how we are to live as Christians. Homosexuality is repeated in the NT as being sinful.
I don’t think the school should have had advocated for the purple shirts to be worn in support of anti-bullying of gays. I think since they did, that the students wearing straight pride shirts were justified in counter protesting. But I wish they would have been a little more sensitive (I really hate that word, but it applies here) to the possibility that a verse like that to a non-Christian seems very offensive. For someone who doesn’t understand why we used to punish sins with death and why we no longer do, it kind of seems like Christianity advocated the killing of gays. It does not. We are called to be a witness for Christ, and we are supposed to spread the gospel all over the world. But if we do so by judging and alienating non-believers, we will never win them over. We can tell them of God’s love and that the gay lifestyle is wrong without having it seem like we want them dead, or that we hate them. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar. And Jesus hung out with the sinners because it is the sick that need a doctor, not the well.
Just something to think about.
Report Post »Comeandtakeit
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 10:45amWhy,why,why, do schools create issues when there isn’t an issue? Obviously bullying is a bad thing in a school, but it should be handled on a case by case basis IF it occurs. And the gay issue is personal and should be kept PERSONAL and not constantly “pushed” on kids and families who do not wish to be involved in “advocating” for it. Pusihing “gay pride” should not be the purvey of schools. If somebody gets bullied, discipline the bully and make it clear bullying will not be tolerated. But don’t drag the rest of the student body into something that is individual.
Report Post »Citizen
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:00amahh refreshingly simple common sense, thank you
if someone bullies because of ANY reason its wrong – its that simple
Report Post »john seven eighteen
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:26am@Comeandtakeit
Very well said. But remember you are using common sense, and that is very old-fashioned in these times. the nut-jobs that run our schools today wouldn’t know common sense if it jumped up and bit them in the backside.
Report Post »wildjoker5
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:28amThere has never been bulling before the gays’ issue, no one ever got picked on for being fat (glandular problem), short (glandular problem), weak, neardy, tall, muscle head, “stupid”, smart, boy, girl, or whatever might make someone different than the “cool kids” or bullies. [sarcasm]
Report Post »JustPeachy
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:05pmComeandtake it, I agree with you. Why schools create issues and problems for themselves is a great question. Good grief.
My guess is it is because they don’t take the time to FULLY THINK through their ideas/decisions and consider possible consequences and/or repercussions.
Bullying is the wrong behavior that could be addressed here–for whatever reason. They did not need to make this into a sexual issue at all. Duh.
Had they done this, they’d likely not be having to waste valuable time with yet another “controversy” of their own making. But then again, perhaps it was intentional and not accidental. Sigh.
Report Post »Mominfla51
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 1:12pm@ comeandtakeit
Report Post »Well put….Bullying is the issue not being gay. Stop the bullying no matter your sexual preference, color or religion. The schools need to be teaching reading, writing, arithmetic, history and science not social issues.
untameable-kate
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 2:10pmI taught my boy to punch the bullies in the nose, I don’t know if that will work for the little gay boys, they don’t look like they can hit very hard.
AngryTexanFromAmarillo
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 10:44amIf you want to be gay fine, do what ever, but don’t force me and my family to act as if its ok. Do what ever you want in the privacy of your own home but quit trying to force people to accept your life style.
El Paco
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 10:55amAmen. Why can people wear gay pride shirts when people can’t wear straight pride. Granted, if the kids actually had the verse that said, “God will kill gays” on it, that’s a little over the top and it would be appropriate to ask them to cover that up. But simply saying “straight pride” simply shows one’s stance on the issue.
Report Post »bcgunner
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 10:58amHere! Here!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:03amI agree and think it is HIGH TIME that the schools stop trying to social engineer and TEACH. I know it has become a novel idea .. but how about some MATH AND real Science … and then History that has not been wihite washed or twisted.
If gays can be “proud” then WHY NOT straights … if you don’t want opposing views then stop the trying to indoctrinate.
Report Post »HUGGINGMYBABIES
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:03amSo why single out just gay bullying? Why not just make kids aware of bullying in general? I think that’s where the argument would lie for me.
Report Post »randy
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:45amAmen
Report Post »Sledgehammer
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:53amBrother, you called it! Don’t ask, Don’t care! This is what p!sses these folks off, they feel they need every one to except them! Misery loves company. They are bent in the head!
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:58amI agree, asking people to openly wear a color that represents gay pride in school is just as bad as if all the students showed up with the straight pride shirts on. I don’t think that schools should be telling students what groups to accept and support, that isn’t in their job description.
Report Post »be heard
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:10pmWhy is it if your Gay and you wear a Gay Pride shirt that is fine but if you Straight and wear a Straight Pride shirt you are insensitive. I don’t care if you gay or straight. If we have to be open minded enough to tolerate Gay Pride shirts, then shouldn’t the gays have to be open minded enough to tolerate the Straight Pride shirts?
Report Post »HouseNegro
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:29pmWell throw the Un-American little Wetbacks out of school all the way back across the border. So this Patriot can fly his FLAG…….
EgoBrain
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:50pmI’m straight and proud of it.
I’m also white, proud of that too.
Especially proud to be American.
Report Post »DimmuBorgir
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 1:13pmwhy the hell is the topic of sexual prefference even being discussed in a school?
Kids go to school. Kids shouldn’t be learning about gay pride when they should be learning different subject. $10 says they cut the last class of the day to have a school meeting in the gym to talk about how much better gays are.
Report Post »izzyncade
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 1:14pmA-F’ING-MEN…. I am tired of the “support me so I don’t have to support you” crap going on…
Report Post »ME
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 1:29pmStraight Pride
White Pride
US Flag Pride
Gun Pride
If you are offended but me being proud of my heritage or sexual orientation please go bleep yourself.
More of a libertarian my self if you where born a different color and are proud of that great, CHOSE a different sexual orientation or hate guns that is your prerogative don’t force it on me and I will not force mine on you. Try to force it on ME and you will learn more about my Gun Pride:)
Republic Under God
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 1:34pmImagine if the shirt ALSO had an American Flag…
Report Post »Republic Under God
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 1:44pm@Housengro,
Please refrain from using incindiary words like wetbacks. You already walk a fine line with your name. You have defended as your statement against political correctness. So I, like man on this board gave you some latitude. There are many ways to express your anger about the folly of American citizens not even being able to wave Old Glory to keep from offending people who are either here illegally, spewing garbage like that is not one of them.
untameable-kate
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 1:46pmREPUBLIC, if the shirt said ‘straight pride’ had the American flag on it the students would have been suspended, add to that a tea party slogan and they would have had to hang them.
Report Post »individual liberty
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 2:00pmMy mom says that God hates gay people, that’s why he smote their sodomies in France!
Report Post »-Eric Cartman
mrlogan3
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 2:49pmGays don’t wear gay pride apparel as a protest. These kids did. It was a nonverbal confrontational message.
UH60L13
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 3:06pmEver notice that everyone wants to be equal until they are different then they want something special and extra given to them. It is damn time we quit sitting on the sidelines and allow the few to rule the majority. I am all for the “Straight Pride” shirts!! I just wish I had the money to buy one for all to wear to school!!!
Report Post »ron the veteran
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 3:19pmthis is another leftwing assult on our free speech. if ya get all butt hurt about what someone says thats on you not on whos talking.if you dont like it, your free to walk away too. or change the channel. we the people are sick of the assults against our freedoms. hillarys off playing footsie with the u.n. trying to take control of our guns. when are we going to say, enough! and put these traitors in jail? after all it is we the people who allowed these idiots to be elected. its is also up to us to hold them accountable for their crimes. and if what going on isnt criminal its because the ******** we put in office think they can do anything they please anymore. we can and must police these criminals in office now.
Report Post »Itchee Dryback
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 4:33pmAmanda and her gang sound like a bunch of bully’s.
Report Post »It shouldn’t be tolerated.
robert5635
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 6:46pmI know personally how you feel, was on a single site as ‘straight’ and had site posting another man as a match for me. I gave them an ear full, and have on my profile now am sick of the homosexuals pushing their CHOICE of lifestyle on others. If they are offended, is nothing I can do about their clear-cut disobedience to God.
Report Post »Marine Recon Dad
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 7:50pmAmen…
.. but I do find a double standard that the MSM hasn’t spoken of. The kids aren’t allowed to say anything to upset the gay supporters, but the Westboro Baptist congregation can harass the families of fallen soldiers, screaming hideous things at them about gays……
…. go figure…..
Report Post »lcassavaugh
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:04pmthe left used say that they wanted us to tolerate this or that but what they really meant was that they wanted us to accept and embrace it.
Report Post »BloodSweatandTears
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 10:24pmCome to our Gay pride event. Where a purple shirt. Lose your idenity for the cause. Where the shirt of your choice that reflects your opinion. Be bullied , I miean coerced, I mean punished , I mean corrected, I mean be sensitive to other people’s opinion. Sublimate your opinion for the common cause. After a while you don’t feel like an American anymore.
Report Post »allaboutAmerica
Posted on November 14, 2010 at 2:42amMan are you right. Crazy right! I wish I could write this on a tee shirt. In fact,if you don’t mind I will,anonymous. On the front I will write “straight pride.” I am sick and tired of aggressive,and sorry folks,but catty,obnoxious gays all over the place and in your face. Personally, I find many of them to be bullies,catty to the max and full of their self centered ,radical gay agenda.
Report Post »jezz1usa
Posted on November 14, 2010 at 5:59pmTrue That!
Report Post »manoftheway
Posted on March 21, 2011 at 10:26amthe verse says for the people to kill them not God. But overall im a junior in high school the gay kids always play the victum when they are the ones who get special treatment. I’m forced to compromise to thier wishes. That is messed up. No one said anything when they are wearing rainbows and pro-gay and anti religion phrases on their shirts
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