L.G.B.T. Students in Oregon Were Bullied and Forced to Read Bible, Report Says

[SummerMadness]

L.G.B.T. Students in Oregon Were Bullied and Forced to Read Bible, Report Says

In the hallways of a rural Oregon high school, gay and lesbian students were taunted with homophobic slurs. In the cafeteria, students pelted a transgender student with food. And when gay and lesbian students got into trouble, the school’s principal assigned a specific punishment just for them: readings from the Bible.

Students detailed those allegations in recent state investigative reports into the North Bend School District, a coastal area about 100 miles north of California. In the reports, gay and lesbian high school students described years of harassment and bigotry from school employees and other students, and a deeply religious culture that silenced their complaints.

 

[Go Braves]

Dang. That's terrible. The kids who were doing the bullying are the ones who need to read the Bible. Forcing anybody to read it, treating it like a punishment, is counterproductive though.

 

[SummerMadness]

Dang. That's terrible. The kids who were doing the bullying are the ones who need to read the Bible. Forcing anybody to read it, treating it like a punishment, is counterproductive though.

Besides the unconstitutional nature of the school, If anything, they simply push these kids further away from religion if they force them to read the Bible as punishment.

 

[Go Braves]

Besides the unconstitutional nature of the school, If anything, they simply push these kids further away from religion if they force them to read the Bible as punishment.

Oh for sure. It's counterproductive.

 

[com7fy8]

I agree that that was wrong. All of us have been born wrong, in sin; and we need to not look down on anyone else, but receive how our Heavenly Father corrects us so we become able to know how to love each and every person. But we do need to know right from wrong, so we don't do what is wrong, ourselves.

 

[CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN]

L.G.B.T. Students in Oregon Were Bullied and Forced to Read Bible, Report Says

It sounds very Conservative Christian of the school and bullies.

 

[Ana the Ist]

Administration should be working to prevent bullying of any kind...and it certainly sounds like they failed in this case

As for being forced to read the bible as punishment...the principal has clearly violated their civil rights.