Franken takes on Family Council, anti-LGBT bullying

“blah blah blah, blah blah blah.” – Al Franken

“blah blah blah, blah blah blah.” – Dennis

God Bless you Mr. Franken. The pseudo-christian ultra right is responsible for the persecution and death of gays (including three Minnesota teens). They have blood on their hands. I am thrilled that Tom Emmer’s Corporate glee club, Target and Best Buy (read: MinnesotaForward) are being downgraded in the stock market. They deserve it. I am sorry for their fine, non-bigoted, employees and I hope they don’t suffer for their CEOs’ bad faith and bad actions. Tom Emmer, who contributed financially to a hate group advocating the murder of gay people, is behind in the polls. All I can say is thank God (and I do mean God). And thank you, the people of Minnesota for rising above this terrible man and seeing him for what he is. People like Tom Emmer give Christians and Christ a bad name and shame us with their rhetoric, hate mongering and the persecution of minorities. They are the main reason for people leaving the church in droves, the main reason for the climate of hate that drives gay children to suicide, they are behind the murder of Matthew Shepard and many others, they are responsible for the oppression of American Citizens of other religions and the tide of hate and fear that is present in our country. We are Americans, we are better than Tom Emmer and his ilk. They constitute the American Taliban, destroying anyone unlike them. I pray daily for them and ask God to help them awaken from their madness. God Bless America and my fellow Americans (ALL of them).

It is about time that the Twin Cities, and state takes action against the criminal like acts of the MFC. This group in particular is the most UNChristian group I have ever seen, or read about. They are down right cultist, and religious Zealots. The same type of “Christian” group that led the groups against setting the Slaves Free, the same type of group that led the KKK.

They are the ones that are indoctrinating. They push their extremist religious behavior and lifestyles onto the public. Which is protected under the constitution!

Kevin: I almost left the same comment. Perfect.

Sometimes I feel like I’m represented by the BEST Senator in the country. I’m proud he represents me.

Me thinks: being president of the MN Family Council is an unhealthy lifestyle. Tom Prichard, you’re an evil, evil man!!

It is great to have real representation instead of the republican “norm”.

Touché, Zera Lee!

Dennis, A great man named Gandhi once said, “I like your Christ but I do not like your christians.” Someone with an intellectual perspective about life and with a lot more common sense than you will ever have.

I feel faint with pride. He’s living up to Wellstone’s legacy and then some.

“Fred Vols”: If you’d like to keep commenting, please use one username per IP/email address, per our comment policy. Thanks.

Dennis seems to revel in the idea of gay teen suicides. That’s fewer people he has to hate.

Shame on Al Franken for promoting the unconstitutional and Marus ideas of these dangerous homosexual groups that are targeting children.

The LGBT group is a hate group that continues to partner with wolves that are going after our children. The LGBT group that these children were a part of should be investigated. Perhaps the evidence will show that they were recruited into the dangerous homosexual lifestyle, which lead to their tragic ending.

Now the LGBT group wants to create pro-homosexual laws so they can get public funding to teach their anti-biblical religious position on sexual identity. These laws are unconstitutional just as teaching from the bible is not allowed in schools.

A law discriminating against students that believe in sin and the need for a savior is direct discrimination against Christian students.

Tim,
Wow the same in comprehensible argument on two threads. How unoriginal.

Scott

Shame on you Tim (Comment posted October 6, 2010 @ 1:34pm). You and your kind advocate HATE towards other people. There is nothing Christian in that. You are the reason bullies attack people. Your teachings and rantings say it’s OK to terrorize kids. The kids who are killing themselves are made to feel they have no other choice. What these kids need is to be given guidance, love, and understanding. That’s what a true Christian would do. How dare you and your bullies even say the word God when you talk and act the way you do. Remember, our US Constitution says all people are created equal. But also remember, you may judge me but, God will get you.

Tim,
I’m not sure what you mean by “Marus”. Has it something to do with a small town in northern Israel, or the brand of dentist chair?

You are free to believe in sin if you like. I choose to believe in a loving God that made all of us individual an unique, and all of us in his image (even you).

Or you can believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster for all I care.

In my America you are and I are both free to believe as our conscience dictates.

Tim,
When Jesus said “Love your neighbor as yourself”, he did not add any qualifiers like “unless he is gay or she is a lesbian”. In fact, Jesus never uttered a word about LGBT people at all. So I think we can assume when he said love your neighbor, he meant it.

This group is a strong financial supporter of Madame Bachmann. Where is her response?

The suicide of any young person is incredibly upsetting. Bullying of kids by other kids is a part of growing up, whether or not one wishes it were not so. But to blame a suicide on the bullying of others is to put the blame on the wrong people and deter from real causes. And to castigate Tom Pritchard for expressing his belief that homosexuality is an unhealthy lifestyle, or that activists share blame for their persuasive techniques to convince people otherwise, is to resort to below the belt demonizing the likes of which we saw so well in Germany in the 1930′s. Shame on you Mr. Franken.

I have one question for all who are against what Senator Franken is doing.” What if it were your child who took his or her life?” We have a HUGE ISSUE… CHILDREN ARE DYING. Rather than sit around and argue about who is right and who is wrong, shouldn’t we, as adults, be talking action to let these young people know that their is a better way?

Where is Bachman this is a 6th district issue.You better believe that Tarryl Clark will stand up for our kids.Keep these fake Christians and their white collar hate crimes out of our schools.

Sorry.This issue is much bigger than the 6th district.

Dennis who could only write blah blah blah to Al Franken, couldn’t really write anything else since his pen kept slipping in the fresh young blood on his hands.

America……

The land of the FREE – if you’re straight,
And the BRAVE – if you are Gay.

I don’t think our forefathers meant for those extra words to be there.

This is a day to go to http://mnfamilycouncil.blogspot.com/ and tell them what you think. Mathew Shepards soul, needs it.

It is always sad when a someone takes their own life, but what evidence do you have that these children killed themselves only because of the bullying. Politically, it’s advantageous to focus on the single issue, however suicide is not committed because of one occurrence, it is almost always a result of multiple reasons. People commit suicide due to self loathing, pressures at work, home or school, any number of reasons. It is simplistic to say that bullying legislation would have saved these children. The schools are not babysitters of our children. Family is the main entity that can prevent these tragedies. Maybe more effort should be made to educate families of these troubled teens of the signs of someone considering suicide than taxing the already limited resources of our school districts.

With all due respect, arlen, do you have any evidence that these young school children killed themselves for “other multiple reasons” than as a result from unchecked bullying at school?

Of course, schools are not babysitters; however, this does not excuse the school district from failing to provide a safe place of learning for all children that attend. As we have seen, some schools have failed or are failing to provide this safe environment by not dealing with bullying issues. This is what the anti-bullying legislation attempts to address.

You’ll have to excuse my dismissal of your meaningless comments regarding “family” because I’ve heard too many stories about parents of bullied children being stonewalled by school staff when they complain.

i guess i have the same evidence as you have about whether they died because they were bullied. Why did these young people commit suicide solely because of the bullying when so many others didn’t? If bullying was the sole cause, then why doesn’t every young person who is bullied do the same thing. Homosexuals aren’t the only children who are bullied in school.
My point is that while it is a political opportunity to make this a gender issue, maybe some thought should be given to other possibilities. LGBT youths have identity issues, it is difficult accept you are different from the norm, no matter how you are different. Family issues, abuse, etc. are all possibilities for the mental problems that cause someone to attempt suicide. To ignore them indicates to me that one has more of a concern for political issues then for these children.
Regarding “family”, i wasn’t discussing the interplay between the schools and the parents as i have personally been involved with that and bullying. I was talking about educating the families of children at risk to recognize the signs of depression and the decision period for suicide.

arlen, you may want to consider the possibility that anti-LGBT bullying and harassment is indeed the PRIMARY factor prompting some children and young adults to kill themselves. Rather than argue with you, I suggest you read what Sirdeaner Walker, a devout Christian mother of 11-year-old son Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover who killed himself after enduring anti-gay bullying in school, has to say at

http://onfaith.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2010/10/gay_advocates_do_gods_work.html

The LGBT community and allies here in Minnesota are working hard to get the all-inclusive anti-bullying bill passed and signed into law despite the politically-driven homophobic actions of Minnesota Family Council and Governor Pawlenty who object to this bill simply because it includes sexual orientation and gender identity among the listed characteristics.

Additionally, there is an abundance of content on the WWW describing the experiences of LGBT children – including too many that have been kicked out of home by their families just because they are LGBT.

The more voices we have the children we can save.

http://www.haltnow.ca – Humanity Against Local Terrorism – HALT

A new website that offers education, prevention, support and services to abused and bullied victims throughout each of our communities. We do so in order to encourage education, prevention and support to aid people in our communities and our country . H.A.L.T. was created in order to help in finding a solution to stop this local terrorism of bullying, abuse and domestic violence within our communities. Please help us stop these senseless acts.

Can anyone provide any evidence that the MFC actually does ANY good at all?

It seems their only reason to exist is to attempt to deny equal rights to gays and lesbians.

They don’t seem to be using any of their donations for helping kids in foster homes, helping people adopt children, helping families who have dire situations involving medical issues, feeding families who are starving or homeless.

Nothing. Not a single thing that Christ said they should do.

They’re a fraud masquerading as charity and should be investigated as such.

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