The applicants made it clear the space wouldn’t be just for LGBTQ+ students. It would be for anyone who needs to “just breathe for a second,” said one of the students who confronted the adults Nov. 14.

The grant asks for just one thing — that they identify the sponsors, something that every grant does, one school board member reminded the room. In this case, it would be with one simple phrase anywhere in the space: “It Gets Better.”

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At least they know for sure it’ll get better when they leave Lynchburg.

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If a writer named the town with the comically evil school board ‘Lynchburg,’ people would probably think it was too obvious.

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You know that it’s named that because the founder is John Lynch, right?

People had the name long before anyone associated it to murder…

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Lynching was named after Charles Lynch, John’s brother who was a judge who punished British loyalists without due process. It’s a much closer association than you portray.

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I see you haven’t responded to the person who educated you, after you tried to gaslight strangers (intentionally or not). Any response?

Edit: sorry! Just looked at your post history, you’re actually just an inflammatory troll! I didn’t mean to treat you like an actual person, my mistake :)

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I’ll award you half a point for being technically correct until his brother came along.

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John Lynch was born in 1971

Lynching has been in use since 1836

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89 points

Saving the Children by not allowing them to receive money to prevent Suicide!

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Compare and contrast with the Biden administration to save the children by keeping lead out of their drinking water.

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Nah, Sleepy Joe is just trying to prevent kids from getting the lead they need to become Republicans when they grow up. Pretty tyrannical when you think about it! /s

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Not those children!

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Conservatives have always encouraged gay youth and any other kids who “aren’t cool” to kill themselves.

Conservatives delight in the idea of “defective” children committing suicide. This is why conservatives have worked so hard to defund or sabotage suicide prevention efforts nationwide for the last 20 years.

#JustConservativeThings

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Incidentally they also push suicide on anyone that might cost them money, veterans, the ill and injured, the working class as a whole.

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Absolute ghouls.

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Nah, ghouls are just scavengers. These people are stochastic murderers.

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Another proud moment for Christianity

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