It is something the Republicans fear.
It is what the conservative parents fear.
It is something that the children know.
The Republicans want us back in the closet in schools, they fear that their children will be come friends with a LGBTQ+ students and see through all of their lies.
First I want to point out that this was a Catholic university.
Well yeah, almost all of the people walked out.
It is what the conservative parents fear.
It is something that the children know.
The Republicans want us back in the closet in schools, they fear that their children will be come friends with a LGBTQ+ students and see through all of their lies.
But the students would have nothing to do with his animosity!Mass walkout at graduation ceremony after speaker’s anti-gay comments
Hundreds of students, as well as some lecturers, walked out of a graduation ceremony in Australia as a former trade union leader took aim at gay marriage and abortion rights during his keynote speech.
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By Sophie Perry
October 22, 2024Joseph de Bruyn, the former national president of the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association, gave a speech at Australian Catholic University’s (ACU) graduation ceremony in Melbourne on Monday (21 October), where he said abortion was the “single biggest killer of human beings” and same-sex marriage went against “every society on Earth”.
De Bruyn, who was there to receive an honorary doctorate, told education and arts, law and commerce graduates that marriage was a union between a man and a woman and was “instituted by God at the origin of humanity in the Garden of Eden, as the book of Genesis in the Bible tells us”, adding: “My experience is that many Catholics cave in to peer pressure. They think their professional lives will be harmed if they promote the teachings of the Church.”
He also said that for “several decades [he had] been involved in opposing abortion, the deliberate killing of unborn human beings”, going on to claim: “Over 80,000 unborn children are killed by abortion in Australia each year. Worldwide, the estimated number is 42 million per annum.
Footage from the event showed people queueing up to leave the Melbourne Convention Centre.
Speaking to ABC Radio Melbourne, student Charlie Panteli described the speech as taking a “hard-right turn”, adding: “He started talking about how abortion was wrong and he had a list of things he wanted to talk about and it was shocking. I was one of the first to get up and I was quite far down the front and started to signal I was going.”
The speech was “selfish” and the former union leader “did not reference us at all”, Panteli said, estimating that there were about 95 per cent of people left in the auditorium when he walked out.
First I want to point out that this was a Catholic university.
“The university understands that many of our staff, graduates and their families disagreed with the content of Mr de Bruyn’s speech and we regret that this occurred.”
School systems have been trying to ban GSA, and anything LGBTQ+ in the classroom from 2006 in SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change...
In recent years, students in many communities have brought legal challenges against school districts attempting to block the formation of GSA’s. The challenges focus on the Equal Access Act of 1984 which allows clubs like a GSA the right to form and meet at schools as long as any other club is allowed to do the same. Twenty years ago the law was championed by right wing lawmakers hoping to protect the rights of Christian student organizations to meet at public schools. Federal court cases in conservative states such as Kentucky and Utah have upheld the right of GSAs to form at public schools.
Despite the clear precedent, members of the school board and greater community voiced concerns and complaints about the club. The board’s decision may have also been influenced by the activities of Operation Rescue/Operation Save America, a conservative Christian group known for harassing patients and blocking the entrances to abortion clinics. The group held a rally outside the board meeting and put out a press release condemning the GSA as part of the “radical homosexual agenda.”
School clubs for gay students move underground after Kentucky’s anti-LGBTQ law goes into effect
After personal tragedy, a mother sought to start a Gay-Straight Alliance at her local school. Then came a state law cracking down on discussion of gender identity
The Hechinger ReportBy Javeria SalmanDecember 18, 2023During a school-wide club fair in this northern Kentucky town, a school administrator stood watch as students signed up for a group for LGBTQ+ students and their allies.
After the club sign-up sheet had been posted, students wrote derogatory terms and mockingly signed up classmates, according to one of the club’s founders. The group eventually went to the administrator, who agreed to help.
Simply being able to post the sign-up sheet in school was a victory of sorts. For two years, the club, known as PRISM (People Respecting Individuality and Sexuality Meeting), gathered in the town’s public library, because its dozen members couldn’t find a faculty adviser to sponsor it. In fall 2022, after two teachers finally signed on, the group received permission to start the club on campus.
So why do the right-wing conservatives fear diversity? Why do they like segregation? Well researchers found…
And that folks is why the Republicans fear diversity. Vanderbilt University published this...
By Laura Baams and Stephen T. Russell
Youth & Society Volume 53, Issue 2
Abstract
Utilizing a school-based sample of 895,218 students aged 10–18 years old, we examine differences in students’ school functioning, substance use, and mental health in schools with and without Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs). In addition, we examine whether GSA presence is associated with these outcomes for students of color and LGBTQ students. Overall, students in schools with GSAs were found to report better school functioning, lower substance use, and better mental health. For students of color, the association between the presence of a GSA and mental health and substance use was not as strong as it was for non-Hispanic white students. Further, for LGBTQ students, the association between the presence of a GSA and school functioning was not as strong as it was for non-LGBTQ students. Future research is necessary to ascertain the function of GSAs, especially for marginalized youth.
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Conclusion
The current study supports previous findings on the positive presence of GSAs in schools for student school functioning, substance use, and mental health. However, the current study also shows that results for school functioning are stronger for non-LGBTQ students, and results for substance use and mental health are stronger for non-Hispanic white students. Future research on both the meaning and function of GSAs in schools, as well as the diversity of GSAs across schools, will illuminate how and in what ways GSAs may benefit all students, especially those who are most marginalized.
The new report is a meta-analysis of 15 independent studies surveying nearly 63,000 high school students. It was conducted by Robert Marx and Heather Hensman Kettrey at Vanderbilt’s Peabody Research Institute, and published by Journal of Youth and Adolescence.
The researchers found that students who attended a school with a GSA were:
52 percent less likely to hear homophobic remarks;
36 percent less likely to be fearful for their personal safety; and
30 percent less likely to experience homophobic victimization.
“Compared to their straight and gender-conforming classmates, LGBTQ students are at an increased risk of victimization in high schools, and our work suggests that GSAs might be a promising solution to this problem,” said Kettrey, a research associate at Peabody Research Institute.
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