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Cheatham County teen Jacob Rogers, who took his own life, was a target for bullying

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JMG reader Mike wrote to the Tennessee Equality Project to ask why they’d made no mention of our successful fundraising campaignto pay for the funeral of gay bullying victim Jacob Rogers. With Mike’s permission, here’s the bulk of their response to him…

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Joe Jervis of Joe My God (the political blog honored last night at the Voice web awards), Dan Savage (whose syndicated column appears weekly in the Voice) and the website Towleroad are all raising money for the funeral of Tennessee teenager Jacob Rogers, who committed suicide.

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Students at a local school are grieving a classmate. Friends say the young man took his own life because he couldn’t take any more bullying.

And they say school officials knew about the torment but didn’t do enough to stop it.

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http://www.twincities.com/ci_19707112

Anoka-Hennepin teachers want to get rid of the district’s controversial policy governing classroom discussions about sexual orientation – and they don’t want a proposed new one to replace it.

Union representatives of the 2,800-member teaching staff voted Monday against having any policy that would place dictates on classroom conversations about sexual orientation or any other topic deemed controversial, according to Julie Blaha, president of Anoka-Hennepin Education Minnesota.

Those results were presented to the Anoka-Hennepin school board Monday night.

“Despite the good intentions of it, it turned out to be more confusing and limiting than helpful,” Blaha told board members, referring to the district’s current sexual orientation curriculum policy.

Teachers believe that the new, broader policy being considered to replace it isn’t necessary either, she added.

The vote was the first official stance taken by teachers on the sexual orientation curriculum policy. The guidelines have divided Minnesota’s largest school district, landing it in the middle of a national debate about anti-gay bullying and prompting two lawsuits.

 

http://troy.patch.com/articles/troy-high-gsa-26264a86#video-8863234

Troy Mayor Janice Daniels denies saying homosexuality is a mental issue, but Troy High School Gay Straight Alliance co-founders Skye Curtis and Zach Kilgore were disturbed by the meeting on Monday, Jan. 9.

http://www.startribune.com/local/north/136988163.html

The group wants Anoka-Hennepin to assist students of “moral conviction” and to offer information on overcoming “sexual disorders.”

A group of parents demanded Monday night that Anoka-Hennepin schools commit more resources to “students of faith, moral conviction, ex-homosexuals and ex-transgenders.”

Upping the ante in the district’s debate over how to address controversial issues in school, in particular sexual orientation, the Parents Action League also asked the district to provide students information that links homosexuality to sexually transmitted diseases and about how to “overcom[e] sexual disorders.”

The demands were made during a public comment period on a proposed policy to replace the district’s current Sexual Orientation Curriculum Policy, which forbids staff members from taking a stand on issues of sexual orientation.

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