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This afternoon in Boyd County, Kentucky, a group of local ministers is holding a rally to protest a decision by the local high school to allow a gay-straight alliance to form. Last Monday, almost half the student body stayed home from school to protest the decision.


The boneheadedness of the ministers' obvious bigotry and their crybaby insistence that federal law shouldn't apply to them is maddening enough alone, but the intimidation and hostility that those kids in the GSA must be feeling right now simply breaks my heart. Anti-gay harassment and violence in schools is a huge problem, and I can only imagine how horrible it must be to go to a school where you know so many students hate you and live in a town where it's considered godly to try to stamp out what few civil rights you have.


Want to do something directly for the kids of the Boyd County GSA? The ACLU, which wrote the letter that forced the school to admit that it is bound by law to let the GSA form, issued a statement last week about the protests at the school, and included this email address for students having trouble forming GSAs to contact for help. You can also send an email to the same address voicing your support for the kids of the Boyd County High School GSA, and the ACLU will make sure those get forwarded to the kids.


Pass it on, will you?

originally posted by Chris