Charlotte County high schools Pull Welcome Mat From Under Noted Gay Author

An acclaimed gay author will not speak to students in Charlotte County high schools beasuce "a few parents objected."

Alex Sanchez writes books about gay youth and their struggle to find acceptance. But local school principals were not comfortable allowing him to address their students.

Jay Remer, spokesman for the Charlotte County Rainbow Support Group, said Sanchez is a terrific public speaker whose message is about tolerance.

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[Misti Wilde]

Could the children themselves vote on the issue? Oppressive parents are too mentally unstable to make such decisions

[McMike]

Don't feed the double-click troll...

Real link: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2008/10/10...

[McMike]

I bet you anything it's one or two parents so these individuals get to decide the whole she-bang for everyone else??? If they didn't want their kids to see it then yank their kids out of the lecture. Some parents need to turn around and tell the school they want the author to speak.

[Misti Wilde]

McMike wrote:

Don't feed the double-click troll...
Real link: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2008/10/10...

What is that?

[Dove]

It's true that gay youth struggle to find acceptance and what better way for school principals to help their gay students to feel accepted than to cater to the complaints of a few homophobes and ban someone who wants to help them? Good work, school principals! It's comforting to know just how far you are willing to go to protect all of your students.

[Tom in El Paso]

Misti Wilde wrote:

<quoted text>What is that?

The No Click Troll campaign is one which is attempting to put a stop to individuals who spend their day attempting to get you to go to their site instead of to the original article. Often you won't get to see all of an article unless you hit yet another link on their page. Click Trolls is not what Topix is about.

Click Trolls are pretty much like Porn Site spammers. They get paid to get people to go to their site instead of having a real job.

[Misti Wilde]

Tom in El Paso wrote:

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The No Click Troll campaign is one which is attempting to put a stop to individuals who spend their day attempting to get you to go to their site instead of to the original article. Often you won't get to see all of an article unless you hit yet another link on their page. Click Trolls is not what Topix is about.
Click Trolls are pretty much like Porn Site spammers. They get paid to get people to go to their site instead of having a real job.

Click Trolls are evil. I have noticed alot of sites "abort" me since I've been here

[mixed]

So much for the "free market of ideas".

[mixed]

Also people don't have to wonder why the suicide rate among gay teens is higher than for straight kids, it's the hate coming from the parents and society as a whole.

[Misti Wilde]

mixed wrote:

Also people don't have to wonder why the suicide rate among gay teens is higher than for straight kids, it's the hate coming from the parents and society as a whole.

It's the parents. I know kids very well. Then after the suicide the parents are quick to blame their peers or mental illness. You KNOW they're not going to take responsibility. The statistics are wrong. I've watched parents deal with teen suicide. Step one: Find someone else or something to blame. The suicides hard enough to deal with so they lay the blame first. I've seen parents firsthand be the reason for a suicide and blame kids for it.