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Jesus says: Bully gay kids

The sheer lack of Christianity in America’s Christian right never fails to make my blood boil. Christian lobby groups like Focus on the Family and Concerned Women for America are opposing anti-bullying legislation. Why? Because they reckon it shouldn’t be illegal to bully young people who are gay. Focus on the Family claim the legislation to be ‘pro-gay’ and others have argued that bullying should be acceptable if it is based on “a sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction.” Given that the bullying of gay teens has led to a number of suicides in the USA in recent years, the extreme position taken by these conservative groups is nothing short of disgusting.