It's funny how the one thing that was never mentioned in the whole article is how well the staff at the school knew the parents of the kid. I say this as it was a support staff member of my high-school that outed me to my parents under such circumstances. In my case however, they only did so because I trusted and confided in this particular staff member and they got to know my parents well enough to know that it wouldn't cause any harm at all to do so, and would actually make explaining certain things easier.

It all boils down to circumstance in the end, and how well the parents were known, etc. The argument that it could have made a bad situation worse is true, but misleading since there is a great chance that the staff knew the parents and knew the situation. I'm not sure I could formulate an opinion on either side on this one.

This reminds me of a video I found on YouTube that made the point of "Being a hater doesn't make you straighter". Guess it was right after all lol

@leatherbear:

LAGOS, Nigeria – A bill originally designed to outlaw gay marriage in Nigeria likely has consequences far beyond its initial scope – criminalizing gay groups and organizations could jeopardize millions of dollars of Western aid geared toward stopping the spread of HIV and AIDS in Africa's most populous nation.

WOAH!! Back the f*** up a second!! Where does the Nigerian government get their facts from? According to Statistics Canada, in 2003, the number of heterosexual females known to be infected with HIV on a worldwide group officially raised above that of any other category of person. This was primarily stemmed from the HIV epidemic in that geographical region, namely the whole part about that geographical region's days of "HIV in the 80's" being what they're living now. It is was also noted that the greatest percentage of heterosexual females infected were located in this general geographical region of the world.

All that being said, the question is this: "How would banning of gay marriage help prevent the spread of HIV when the majority of the cases in that area are in heterosexual females, unless the government is only examining the statistics within North America where the greatest population infected with HIV is in fact homosexual males, or they are otherwise uneducated on the matter and use one of the common myths of HIV as an excuse?"

@leatherbear:

There are nearly 1.2 million people who have HIV in the U.S., but just 28 percent of them have what is called a "suppressed viral load," which means that they have less than 200 copies of HIV per millilitre of blood, the report said.

I'd like to know where this report received their facts. According to medical science that is known to anyone who is HIV+ and is receiving medical treatment for it (such as myself), it is known that the point of having the virus "suppressed" is to have what is referred to as an "undetectable" viral load, which actually equates to less than 50 copies of the HIV virus per 1mL of blood. Anything over that is a detectable load, which bears a count. I think the study may have confused this information with the first guideline required for AIDS diagnosis with respect to the CD4 count.

Yet they deported that Australian man that lived with his long time American lover who had AIDS.

Soloway based the request to dismiss the case on Alcota's marriage to her U.S. citizen spouse, Cristina Ojeda, her deep ties to her community, the absence of any adverse factors and her activism against the Defense of Marriage Act, signed into law in 1996.

That is an odd stance to take.

Since I'm against the "war on drugs" (not for drug use reasons, but rather we should legalize and tax drugs), I can start doing heroin and the courts won't mind?

However, Obama has stopped short of backing gay marriage, saying only that his personal views on the matter are evolving.

Why does he insist on repeating this tired fucking old lie?!

He used to support gay marriage, that is until he decided to run for the US Senate. That is when he threw us under the bus to gain votes in the conservative southern half of the state.

His stance on gay marriage evolved as a political ploy to get votes, nothing more.

It's ironic that they are not forced to hold them if they don't want to, but they demand that churches that want to hold them can't.  The Quakers, MCC and many other churches fully support full gay marriage and want to do civil partnerships, but the religious nazis won't let them.

Religious freedoms are only for those that hate gays.

As we know, hating any other group is generally frowned upon by the public and illegal.

The bill passed Tuesday comes nearly a month after British prime minister, David Cameron, threatened to withhold aid from nations violating gays rights, sparking outrage in Africa where leaders interpreted it as "colonial" display of power.

If you remember the other article about this, it won't change how much money they will get, just which account the money comes from.

Idle hands are the devil's workshop.

Considering that a lot of them still fly a confederate flag in their back yard in that neck of the woods, that's a shocker actually… I know this because I have seen this with my own eyes when I lived in that neck of the woods.

If the gay element were removed from the case, I'm sure the jurors wouldn't have any problems finding him guilty of 1st degree murder.

EDIT:  I'd love to see the feds come in and charge him with bringing a gun on school grounds, giving him another 10 years and commiting a felony on school grounds (usually used for drug dealing, but hey) giving him another 25 years.

“religious liberty”

What does a gay couple getting married have to do with their "religious liberty"?!

Archbishop Dolan also came prepared to answer questions about the sexual-abuse scandal at Penn State University, which has reminded so many observers of the Catholic Church’s own abuse scandal. He said that the accusations against a former university football coach were a reminder that sexual abuse is a universal problem that affects most institutions.

But name any other institution that "institutionally" refuses to turn the child molester in.

Nevertheless, the bishops remain a forceful political lobby, powerful enough to nearly derail the president’s health care overhaul two years ago over their concerns about financing for abortion

That' religion for you.  They'd rather no one have health care than for anyone to have an abortion.

This is about pedophilia not Homosexuality.  IMHO. This whole story reminds people of the old stigma of recruiting and will cause many wild reactions. Sandusky was and is a pedophile pure and simple as that.

US Presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann's business, run by her husband, that advocates "pray the gay away" gets support from Uganda's hate mongering Rev "dey eat da poo poo" and his church.

Let's put it this way, ENDA (Employment Non Discrimination Act) has been up for a vote every year since 1970, under 4 different names, and still we can't get it passed.