Quote:I trust you, or your advisors, will give serious consideration to the medical evidence below and reconsider your decision to fund the so-called Safe Schools programme throughout Australia.

The political justification for ‘Safe Schools’ programmes, or the associated ‘Gay-Straight Alliances’, is that there is a plague of gay-based bullying in our schools, and the only way to counter that is through celebrating homosexuality. That justification, however, is doubtful.

In one large study comparing a thousand homosexual and heterosexual adults in the UK, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry in 2003, the researchers found no increase in bullying of gay men compared to heterosexual men, whether at school or subsequently, whether verbally or physically. “Reports that gay and lesbian people are vulnerable to such experiences because of their sexuality are often taken at face value”, these researchers noted, with other studies failing to draw a comparison to heterosexual students.

In other words, there are many reasons to be bullied at school – for being too smart, too dumb; too fat, too weak; or for being “gay” even when you are not gay. A report in the news only last week finds one-third of 10-year-olds in Australia report being bullied for various reasons. That is something many young people go through, and the claim that homosexual people suffer disproportionate bullying appears to be “taken at face value”.

(07-30-2014 09:28 AM)mlb Wrote:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_Life_Coalition

(07-30-2014 09:31 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(07-30-2014 09:28 AM)mlb Wrote:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_Life_Coalition

???

(07-30-2014 09:30 AM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  I went to a small country school... I've seen people get bullied for being fat, small, wearing glasses, being in "Expanded Horizons," being a mixed couple, and many other things... Being a queer was never an issue that caused bullying, hell, we always tried to be cool with the few there because they hung around all the hot chicks.

Leftists just need hateful talking points, nobody picks on fags.

(07-30-2014 09:31 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(07-30-2014 09:28 AM)mlb Wrote:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_Life_Coalition

???

(07-30-2014 09:38 AM)mlb Wrote:  

(07-30-2014 09:31 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(07-30-2014 09:28 AM)mlb Wrote:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_Life_Coalition

???

That web site is run by a very socially conservative group since 1997.
The opinion article was written by the head of the Australian Marriage Forum, an anti-gay marriage group.

(07-30-2014 09:35 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  We didn't have any queers at my school.

(07-30-2014 09:40 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  And that makes it wrong because?

(07-30-2014 09:41 AM)Smaug Wrote:  

(07-30-2014 09:35 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  We didn't have any queers at my school.

You took a poll? (No pun intended)

(07-30-2014 09:45 AM)mlb Wrote:  

(07-30-2014 09:40 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  And that makes it wrong because?

I'd like to see better sources, that is my point. Just the same when I see something attacking "conservatives" on Huffington Post. I take it with a grain of salt. Same goes with this "source."

That being said, I'm not in school but 20 years ago when I was 15 I know for a fact that any kids that were not part of the in crowd were called "fags," and my buddies and I would all call each other gay and fags when we were just ripping on each other. I'd be shocked if at some level teenage boys aren't still doing the same, especially if someone is openly gay.

(07-30-2014 09:45 AM)mlb Wrote:  

(07-30-2014 09:40 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  And that makes it wrong because?

I'd like to see better sources, that is my point. Just the same when I see something attacking "conservatives" on Huffington Post. I take it with a grain of salt. Same goes with this "source."

That being said, I'm not in school but 20 years ago when I was 15 I know for a fact that any kids that were not part of the in crowd were called "fags," and my buddies and I would all call each other gay and fags when we were just ripping on each other. I'd be shocked if at some level teenage boys aren't still doing the same, especially if someone is openly gay.

(07-30-2014 09:30 AM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  I went to a small country school... I've seen people get bullied for being fat, small, wearing glasses, being in "Expanded Horizons," being a mixed couple, and many other things... Being a queer was never an issue that caused bullying, hell, we always tried to be cool with the few there because they hung around all the hot chicks.

Leftists just need hateful talking points, nobody picks on fags.

(07-30-2014 09:48 AM)DrTorch Wrote:  But that's the wrong analysis.

By your own admission you and your friends bullied non-gays, but you're not aware of bullying gays.

(07-30-2014 09:57 AM)South Carolina Duke Wrote:  We played "Smear the Queer"

(07-30-2014 10:07 AM)mlb Wrote:  

(07-30-2014 09:48 AM)DrTorch Wrote:  But that's the wrong analysis.

By your own admission you and your friends bullied non-gays, but you're not aware of bullying gays.

Using those slurs is still an attack on the people who are gay... even if you weren't directly attacking that person at the time. They heard it, I'm quite positive it hurt them. I have come to find out quite a few of my classmates were gay so I do imagine my buddies and I hurt them at some level.