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Michigan Republicans Alter Anti-Bully Bill to Protect Bullies
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2011-11-09 11:36 AM
Schmidt
Colorado Springs, CO
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Reference: Amy Sullivan, Time Swampland, November 4, 2011:
Why Does Michigan's Anti-Bullying Bill Protect Religious Tormenters?
Amy Sullivan reveals a very disturbing initiative by the Michigan Republican Senate to protect bullies on the basis of religious beliefs.
The “Matt’s Safe School Law,” is named after Matt Epling, a Michigan student who committed suicide in 2002 after enduring prolonged bullying. The bill was long championed by the Democrats, but with the Republicans inserting special protections for religiously-motivated bullying before the bill was passed, all Democrats voted against it.
Sullivan reports: "On Wednesday, the Republican-controlled state senate passed an anti-bullying bill that manages to protect school bullies instead of those they victimize. It accomplishes this impressive feat by allowing students, teachers, and other school employees to claim that “a sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction” justifies their harassment."
"In other words, social conservatives believe that efforts to protect gays from assault, discrimination or bullying impinge on their religious freedom to express and act on their belief that homosexuality is an abomination. That’s stating it harshly, but it is the underlying belief."
Read Sullivan's entire article at the above link.
Does anyone have any doubt that the Christian Right anti-gay agenda is pervasive within the Republican Party?
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