One Town's War on Gay Teens
'In Michele Bachmann's home district, evangelicals have created an extreme anti-gay climate. After a rash of suicides, the kids are fighting back.
Sam's death lit the fuse of a suicide epidemic that would take the lives of nine local students in under two years, a rate so high that child psychologist Dan Reidenberg, executive director of the Minnesota-based Suicide Awareness Voices of Education, declared the Anoka-Hennepin school district the site of a "suicide cluster," adding that the crisis might hold an element of contagion; suicidal thoughts had become catchy, like a lethal virus. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
To my mind, evangelist Christianity is cafeteria Christianity. Picking and choosing among the many wonderfully humanistic tenets of a pacifist religion and rejecting those which don’t coincide with personal prejudices. Consider: “How about a helping of Salvation?” “Two, please.” “How about a side of Brotherhood?” “No thanks, gives me heartburn.” If Evangelists truly believe in an all seeing–all knowing God, what will really be the outcome of their Judgement Day?