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With Coming Out Day, the remembrance of Matthew Shepard's murder, the teen bullying suicides, The Washington Post decided to run an editorial from that vile and repulsive tony perkins (we don't make the extra effort of capital letters for scum).

".....homosexual activist groups like GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) are exploiting these tragedies to push their agenda of demanding not only tolerance of homosexual individuals, but active affirmation of homosexual conduct and their efforts to redefine the family," and that kids being told they are born gay "may create a sense of despair that can lead to suicide."


Since homosexual conduct is associated with higher rates of sexual promiscuity, sexually transmitted diseases, mental illness, substance abuse, and domestic violence, it too qualifies as a behavior that is harmful to the people who engage in it and to society at large. It is not loving to encourage someone to indulge in such activities, no matter how much sensual pleasure they may derive from them. It is more loving to help them overcome them. This is why, in the public policy arena, we will continue to oppose any policy or action that would celebrate or affirm homosexual conduct.

Since this caused such an uproar, The Post decided to run an essay from the mother of Carl Walker-Hoover, who killed himself last year as a result of bullying, to get both sides of the "issue."

 I am a single mother and a devout Christian who had never been involved in advocacy work or politics. After my son died, and GLSEN reached out to me, some of my friends and family members expressed concern about the organization's work to address anti-gay bullying in school. They voiced religious opposition to GLSEN. Thanks to Tony Perkins' On Faith piece published yesterday, I don't have to repeat the arguments. Perkins' lays them all out practically word for word. And they're all wrong. [snip]

If schools perceive addressing anti-gay bullying as a controversial issue, then they'll continue the status quo of putting their heads in the sand and hoping the issue takes care of itself. It won't. And we need to be clear on one thing - addressing anti-gay bullying is not a controversial issue. If you move through the smoke screen organizations like Family Research Council try to create, you realize addressing anti-gay bullying is simply the right thing to do if we care about all of our young people.

GLAAD chimed in to this "debate" with:  'There are not "both sides" to this issue. Teen suicide isn't a debate - it's a tragedy. http://bit.ly/crX6q5 #LGBT.'