“Mix It Up at Lunch Day” sounds like a great idea to combat social and interpersonal issues in school children by encouraging kids to, for a day, include all and sundry in their social interactions in school, but the American Family Association has struck out at the anti-bullying initiative as a veiled promotion of the “homosexual agenda.”
“Mix It Up at Lunch Day” is one of a number of grassroots initiatives to discourage bullying, but bullying itself is hard to both identify and define. Social difficulties are part and parcel of growing up, but a recent spate of bullying-related incidents, including suicide deaths following social pressure, have brought bullying to the forefront as a major social issue for teens.
Most recently, we learned of the case of Amanda Todd, a young teen who took her own life following what was reported as relentless online bullying. Todd posted a heart-wrenching video to YouTube explaining her distress and later died at her own hand when the problems continued.
Due to its subtle and subjective nature, bullying has thus far been difficult to combat, and the Southern Poverty Law Center, a social justice group, came up with “Mix It Up at Lunch Day” to promote positive social relations among teens.
As soon as the initiative began, however, there was pushback from the American Family Association, a group that believes “Mix It Up at Lunch Day” is a secret gay threat out to teach our kids to be gay by being nice to people. Or something.
AFA’s Bryan Fischer defended the “not a hate group” for its anti-anti-bullying stance, saying:
“The reality is we are not a hate group. We are a truth group … We tell the truth about homosexual behavior.”
Fischer continues:
“Anti-bullying legislation is exactly the same … It’s just another thinly veiled attempt to promote the homosexual agenda. No one is in favor of anyone getting bullied for any reason, but these anti-bullying policies become a mechanism for punishing Christian students who believe that homosexual behavior is not something that should be normalized.”
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Maureen Costello said she was shocked by the bizarre attack and that the framing of Mix It Up at Lunch Day was based on lies:
“I was surprised that they completely lied about what Mix It Up Day is … It was a cynical, fear-mongering tactic.”
Do you think reaching out to kids on the lunch table level can help stop bullying and prevent suicides?
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Well quite frankly the American Family Association has to keep people pissed off about something. If they aren't stirring up dust they lose the simple minded audience with the attention span of gnats and the mental capacity of a half filled mayonnaise jar which fund their campaigns of hate and discrimination thus losing their ability to shove the Christian agenda down the throats of the American people. The AFA is nothing but a group of people who can't stand anyone who doesn't think like they do, act like they do and get's all pissy the moment anyone defies an ancient book of their law. The same people then have the self-righteous indignation to say that the followers of Islam have no right to push the laws of their religion on to people who don't practice it. They are hypocrites of the most ignorant order.
Well this proves that Christian Fundamentalists are no better than their Islamic equivalent. The only difference is where Muslims are violent, Christians are insidious, working with hate speech, brainwashing and legislation changes, both have the same end goals to destroy anything that doesn't conform to their dogmatic view of the world. Calling for an anti-bullying initiative to be boycotted shows how hate filled they are.
Christian Fundamentalists aren't quite as violent now as they have been in the past (The Spanish Inquisition, The Crusades, etc.), but people in the Gay/Lesbian/Trans community suffer violence at the hands of these people quite often here in America. Honestly, I don't think it has half as much to do with religion as it does zealotry at any level. When we lose the ability to question our own fundamental beliefs, when we say that no humour is allowed to be derived from them, or when we truly believe that we could not possibly in any universe be incorrect, we have stumbled into the same trap these misguided individuals have.
I agree, though. The AFA is a group filled with hate for their fellow human beings and anyone who truly took to heart the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth wouldn't be involved in their campaign of ignorance. I don't believe that they speak for all Christians in general, I've known a few, and I can't stress the word few enough, that are genuinely good, loving, caring people regardless of your willingness to conform to their belief, but the AFA has a lot of money which makes for a very large megaphone to drown out any voice of compassion which would come from their own camp.
And this is why evangelical misogynist men are running politics, Its a sad world that we have to deal with this shit, humans are the only species who have an aversion to homo sexual relations. chimpanzees for example love to fuck everything, EVERYTHING.
Eh! Barry! You seemed to have missed the whole issue here. You call Muslims violent. And Christians aren't? Look at what the USA has done to Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. and let's not forget the Spanish Inquisition. And what about Jewish extremist ( ie. zionists) and the terrible violent crimes they have caused in Palestine. People use their religions to satisfy themselves. There are violent Jews, Christians, Muslims, etc. but this does not mean all, or even most are. But all religions manage to find hatred somewhere for their naive followers. Good is good, bad is bad. Simple as that.
You silly people. Beating, taunting, humiliating, discriminating against gays is for their own good. It's not bullying. It's pushing them in the right direction and expressing to them how wrong they are for choosing to be homosexuals. Since homosexuals can't have kids the only way they can keep more homosexuals coming is to convince our children to be homosexuals too.
/faceplant desk
PS: In case I wasn't obvious, I want to be clear that the above statements are, in fact, sarcasm. Sadly, they are realistic views with many people. People still search for a "gay cure" today.
Okay. Let me see if I get this? CFA does not condone bullying but does not support anti-bullying efforts because………. Are they fucking insane?
Religious people have a monopoly on truth. Didn't you know?
Fuck the facts.
I'm sorry , are we talking about the Taliban or Christians here?
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