Motivated’ (Video)
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In Michigan, the State’s Republican-controlled Senate has passed an
anti-bullying law named after a gay victim.
Good thing you might think. Except it’s not.
The Republicans put in a clause, introduced in secret, which is a cop
out for anyone who can provide a religious or moral reason for their
action.
Apparently to not grant this get-out clause is to act, as Gary Glenn,
president of the American Family Association of Michigan, puts it, as
“a Trojan horse for the homosexual agenda.”
The Michigan bills are known as ‘Matt’s Safe School Law’ and are named
for Matt Epling, an East Lansing gay teenager who committed suicide
after being bullied.
Michigan Republicans only agreed to consider an anti-bullying measure
— for one of the only three US states without them — that did not
require school districts to report bullying incidents, did not include
any provisions for enforcement or teacher training, and did not hold
administrators accountable if they fail to act. They wanted no mention
of any groups at high risk of bullying, in particular gay students.
Watch the reaction from Matt’s dad, who has supported anti-bullying
efforts for years and runs a website in Matt’s memory:
“Rather than providing a blueprint for schools to handle the
situation,” he says, “they have given students an easy out to assault,
harass, belittle and harm fellow students with no recourse by the
schools. Religion should never be used as a weapon and in no
circumstance should a state entity ‘sanction’ violence in the name of
religion.”
“‘For years the line has been ‘no protected classes,’ and the first
thing they throw in — very secretly — was a very protected class, and
limited them from repercussions of their own actions. This line has no
purpose within this piece of legislation except to incite ‘religious
bigotry’ within our schools.”
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