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RandySF

(76,780 posts) Tue May 22, 2018, 01:49 AM May 2018

School resource officer tells gay teen she's going to Hell [View all]

Writing over at the ACLU’s website, graduating senior Liv Funk chronicles being called homophobic slurs by her classmates, as well as one male student who physically abused her by hitting her with his skateboard.

The bullying got so bad that she finally went to her school’s resource officer — but she found to her horror that he wasn’t about to do anything to help her.

“He said that if I’m going to be an open member of the LGBT community that I should prepare for things like this,” she writes. “The officer said that being gay was a choice, and it was against his religion. He said that he had homosexual friends, but because I was an open homosexual, I was going to hell.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rawstory.com/2018/05/gay-teen-says-went-school-resource-officer-getting-bullied-told-shes-going-hell/amp/

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School resource officer tells gay teen she's going to Hell [View all] RandySF May 2018 OP

Why do the resource officer and principle still have jobs at that school? Laffy Kat May 2018 #1

Because a lot of people believe exactly what this person was told" PoindexterOglethorpe May 2018 #2

No, you haven't missed anything because it's all common sense. Laffy Kat May 2018 #3

You've nailed it. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2018 #5

Well said ... I've always enjoyed the wonderful irony that King James was a known, flamingly gay man mr_lebowski May 2018 #8

Somehow I'd missed that. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2018 #10

Is there not one adult in that whole school who could stand up for that kid? Cracklin Charlie May 2018 #27

They don't oberliner May 2018 #19

They don't have jobs both were fired as result of a settlement with the ACLU Demsrule86 May 2018 #21

Thanks for the update. Laffy Kat May 2018 #22

It is a different article...and I was interested in what happened...so I looked it up thanks to your Demsrule86 May 2018 #24

it's the xtian crowd with its usual fear based religious poison nt msongs May 2018 #4

Yesterday my son visited the grave site of a friend of his on the anniversary of his death. Laffy Kat May 2018 #6

That is so sad. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2018 #11

++It's a job he took called school resource officer & he should've been able to direct her to other lunasun May 2018 #26

Damn it. area51 May 2018 #7

The girl does have the option avebury May 2018 #9

not so easy after her first experience in trying to get help from an authority figure JI7 May 2018 #12

The school cannot stop her avebury May 2018 #13

i'm not talking about others stopping her but her own experience may have made her JI7 May 2018 #14

I wish more parents would do this Mariana May 2018 #30

That fucking bellend needs to be sacked NOW. I also hope Exotica May 2018 #15

The resource officer and principal have both been fired oberliner May 2018 #18

great! thanks so much for the update! Exotica May 2018 #20

Hope they stay away from schools. Laffy Kat May 2018 #23

This makes me feel rage gollygee May 2018 #16

Oregon High School Principal and Resource Officer Fired For Anti-LGBTQ Discrimination oberliner May 2018 #17

good news! MariaCSR May 2018 #25

There is also an investigation into students being made to read bible passages as punishment. lkinwi May 2018 #28

That's good. Let them go do their teaching ooky May 2018 #29