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Support Anti-Bullying Day, Oppose Right Wing Christian Group’s Homophobia « Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!

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Support Anti-Bullying Day, Oppose Right Wing Christian Group’s Homophobia

Christian Group Finds Gay Agenda in an Anti-Bullying Day
By KIM SEVERSON October 14,2012 NY Times
On Mix It Up at Lunch Day, schoolchildren around the country are encouraged to hang out with someone they normally might not speak to.
The program, started 11 years ago by the Southern Poverty Law Center and now in more than 2,500 schools, was intended as a way to break up cliques and prevent bullying.
But this year, the American Family Association, a conservative evangelical group, has called the project “a nationwide push to promote the homosexual lifestyle in public schools” and is urging parents to keep their


Bice Calls Out Tommy Thompson’s Son for Racist Remark at Republican Party Event

Tommy Thompson’s son calls for sending Obama back ‘to Kenya’
Daniel Bice Oct. 14, 2012 Milwaukee JS
Jason Thompson, the son of former Gov. Tommy Thompson, was caught on video Sunday suggesting at a Republican event that voters this fall could send President Barack Obama back “to Kenya.”
“We have the opportunity to send President Obama back to Chicago – or Kenya,” Jason Thompson, an attorneyat Michael Best and Friedrich, said during a fall brunch hosted by the Kenosha County Republican Party.