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Image via Wikipedia If there’s one thing virtually everyone can agree on, it’s that bullying is bad. In fact, a recent survey commissioned by Care.com, a caregiver referral company, revealed that bullying is the No. 1 concern of parents of school-aged children — even more so than the fear of kidnapping. We’re all more aware of, and alarmed by, the social aggression, cruelty, and violence that confront too many of our children and teens. And that’s no surprise. If you’ve ever watched a son or daughter struggle to cope with the inexplicably mean behavior of his or her peers, you know why this is such an emotionally charged issue. In fact, in its most recent survey of American teens, the Josephson Institute of Ethics discovered that roughly 60 percent of the teens surve yed said they have been bullied at some point, while about 90 percent said they have bullied others. To say bullying is rampant is an understatement. You would think this is one issue that couldn’t possibly be in

Image via Wikipedia Ever since the highly-publicized suicide of a New Jersey college student in September of 2010, pro- homosexual activists have been using the issues of bullying and teen suicide as tools in pursuit of their political agenda, and as rhetorical weapons against those who oppose it. Every time another report surfaced about a suicide by a teenager who identified as or was perceived to be “gay,” and who had reportedly been bullied, the finger would be pointed directly at conservatives. Bullying causes suicides , we were told, and public expression of conservative political, social, or religious viewpoints concerning homosexuality causes bullying. Affirm homosexual conduct as morally neutral, or more kids will die. As early as October of 2010, however, experts on suicide prevention were warning that this simplistic approach linking suicides (which are always tragic) to bullying (which is always wrong) could do more harm than good. An  article based on an interview  with

Image via Wikipedia Evangelical abstinence campaigns have shifted their emphasis from "just say no" to sex before marriage to "just say yes"—within marriage, that is, says Christine Gardner. In  Making Chastity Sexy  ( University of California Press ), the Wheaton College communications professor examines the rhetoric of three evangelical abstinence organizations, comparing them with an abstinence campaign in sub-Saharan Africa , where HIV / AIDS is a common threat.  Christianity Today  online editor Sarah Pulliam Bailey spoke with Gardner about the larger ideas communicated to young people in the campaign. What did you find upon examining the language of the U.S. abstinence movement ? This is a study of rhetoric in the classical sense—the study of the art of persuasion, focusing on three very specific church-related evangelical campaigns. These groups are using a savvy rhetorical strategy: They are using sex to sell abstinence. They are using the very thing th

Image via Wikipedia A study published in Pediatrics this week claimed to have found a link between a negative ‘social environment’ and suicide attempts among lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth. [1]  The headline of the news feed from Reuters read “ Social environment linked to gay teen suicide risk” [2]  The first line more accurately reflected the content of the study: “Lesbian, gay and bisexual teens are five times more likely to attempt suicide than their heterosexual peers – but those living in a supportive community might be a little better off…” The headline could have more accurately read “LGB Teens 5 times more likely to attempt suicide, whether they live in communities with positive or negative attitudes to homosexuality.” The study found that 21.5% of LGB teens (vrs. 4.2% of heterosexual teens) surveyed in the Oregon Youth Risk Behavior Survey reported a suicide attempt. The authors attempted to link these suicides to community attitudes in the counties where the teens live

VANCOUVER, British Columbia , October 6, 2011 – Videos showing naked men graphically sodomizing one another - included as “resource material” in an “anti-bullying” initiative for Vancouver’s schools - are “really inappropriate,” says a trustee . Trustee Ken Denike’s criticism of the Out in Schools program (OIS) comes after parents complained that Burnaby schools were duped into supporting it as an “anti-bullying” initiative when in fact the program is nothing other than a “scam” by “sex activists” to “sexualize students” and “lure” them into “homosexualist culture.” “I thought it was really inappropriate, especially for a 13-year-old,” Denike told QMI Agency , referring to material from the Health Initiative for Men (HIM) website that was listed as a “youth resource” in the Out In Schools booklet. “This is material that’s on Xtube , which is really adult material.” Find the graphic sexual material at the Health Initiative for Men’s website  here . (Warning: Viewer discretion stro

“It’s an opportunity to make the ultimate sacrifice . Lay your life down for someone else.” This is how one of many young people interviewed for a powerful new video about love and marriage produced by the Ruth Institute describes the purpose of marriage. Through a variety of interviews, the video, a project of The Emerging Leaders program, highlights the intense desire that people in the youngest generations have for self-sacrificial, unconditional and lifelong love – and the hope that they have that they will be able to find it. “They would walk through fire for one another,” says another young woman, describing the attitude a married couple should have towards one another. “I just long for that connection with another person. To be able to love like that.” The video concludes with the youth each committing themselves “to lifelong married love .” “I love this video,”  Ruth Institute  President Jennifer Roback Morse told LifeSiteNews.com, explaining that at the heart of the “I

Image via Wikipedia For  LGBT  teens who face adversity and intolerance… There’s no place in society for hatred and bullying… You have an amazing future in front of you… And an entire community in your corner… We promise you. It gets better . (From the  It Gets Better   video  by the San Francisco Giants baseball team.) What’s not to like about the  It Gets Better  Project? After all,  bullying  is bad.  Compassion  is good. And who could object to offering hope  (to suicidal LGBT youth) and insisting on  change  (from a hostile, bullying culture)? Especially when the project  Saves Lives . So what’s not to like? Plenty.  For starters, it’s the brainchild of Dan Savage , “ America’s leading sex-advice columnist .” (Sample his advice  here . Warning: graphic.) The  It Gets Better  Project caught the cresting wave of media interest that followed several  tragic suicides  of gay teens.  Savage  and his gay partner, Terry Miller , posted a YouTube  video  with an ostensib