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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective

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To: epicure who wrote (5947)	11/14/2000 12:18:04 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) of 10042

put it "suck face in public" like the heterosexuals- I don't advocate that either... certainly not in the high schools. Sexual contact in school is wrong. Certainly as wrong as sexual conduct in the professional business setting. I don't go to work to "make out".. and neither should teens be permitted to do so during the course of the school day. And people only want to beat up on someone else when they feel threatened by them, either physically or psychologically. I'm not condoning it, but merely trying to explain it. Their own insecurity causes them to lash out at vulnerable targets. So my question for you is.. why is a gay teen being beat up any different than a HS freshman being picked on by the upper class? I was picked on for being so nerdie... Literally, I had this one guy who used to give me "knots" seemingly at least once a week, sneaking up on me from behind, and "WHAM!!" rapping me on the skull with his class ring. It would leave a lump the size of a quarter on my scalp for days, sometimes weeks Could I have sued the school for not protecting me? How about the guy who hunted and chased me all the way home when I accidentally scratched the $800 on his car as a HS freshman? He and about 20 of his friends chased me through corn fields and staked out every road between my house and the school... (but they didn't stake out the flowing irrigation canal that I waded into up to my waist for about a 1/2 mile as it ran about a block from my home). And there was NO doubt that they would have ALL beaten the holy hell out of me that afternoon. In fact, they were hot on my heels as I sprinted sopping wet, running for my very life, into my yard where my father just happened have come home early (a rare event). Had he not been there, I'm sure that they would have laid seige to my house as well.... So let me ask you... Could I have sued the school for not protecting me? I was picked on solely because I was a vulnerable little scrawny freshman who hadn't been taught how to defend himself at the time (I still blame my father for not making me take martial arts from a young age)..... I was a target for bullies and suffered tremendously.... It was only when I sprouted and grew to my current 6'3 in height by my late sophomore year that people decided to leave well enough alone. So why should a gay teen have more legal recourse than I did?

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