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Originally Posted by takenbythesky
Education might be the answer. But like I said, kids are often mean and thick-headed. In the world today, you need to have a thick skin if you're different. Unfortunately, there won't always be a school administrator to stick up for homosexuals or other minority groups. So I don't think being coddled is necessarily the answer. On the flipside, the "that's so gay" kid won't always have parents to sue when anyone crosses them. It might not be fair, but that's life. If the past thirty years are any indication, things should ultimately look better for future generations.
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I don't think this was about protecting homosexuals, so much as making an example out of the girl. A gay kid got beaten up by kids in that school, obviously there are "PR" problems that go along with that, and the school wants to come across as zero tolerance on that particular issue. So this girl says gay, and gets in trouble for it. That's lame, point blank. It doesn't even have anything to do with gay people at all really. If she got in trouble for saying that, the religious taunts should have been punished as well.