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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What can I do to help these perfectly reasonable folks?

IDGAF that they are teenagers, that’s irrelevant. Anything I can do to validate, support, etc I’m willing.

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Why is there no group out there exposing these fake Christians for the heathens that they are?

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There are two potential answers to this and they both suck:

  1. The “God is love” Christian majority doesn’t hold the extreme nationalist/dominionist Christians accountable.

  2. The extremists ARE the Christian majority.

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These are Christians. Christians can’t hide behind No True Scotsman, deciding every time one of them is a despicable piece of shit that they aren’t “real”

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rips off the mask

There’s just another Christian under here!

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“Nyahhh! And I would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for you meddling kids!”

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part of the conservative platform is bullying queer people into suicide. this is because american conservatives are monsters who have no place in a functioning society.

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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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