Another Gay Teen Suicide - More Blood on the Hands of James Dobson, Tony Perkins, Maggie Gallagher, et al

This type of story both saddens me beyond description and at the same time enrages me to the point where I truly hope many among the professional Christianist set find themselves with a special place in Hell. These parasitic false Christians in my view literally have the bloods of teen gay suicides like that of Billy Lucas on their hands. As a parent myself, I cannot say that I would not want to engage in some murder myself in the wake of losing a child because the religious based and Christianist fueled homophobia and anti-gay bullying. My heart goes out to Billy's parents and family and I hope that somehow they can get through this horror. Meanwhile, every single one of the Christian Right talking heads clearly care nothing of the lives the end and the families that are traumatized as a result of the poison the "godly Christian" set disseminate virtually every day. With every passing day I find myself wishing that Christianity would just plain die if this is a sample of its fruits. Oh, and WTF were the school administration and teachers doing about this horrible bullying? It sounds like Billy's parents need to be consulting legal counsel and preparing a crippling lawsuit against the school division (I'd name the principal personally as well). WXIN-TV 59 and WTHR-TV 13 both have coverage of the tragedy. First highlights from WNIX:
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Greensburg, Ind.-- He was a teenager who didn't quite fit in. His classmates said Billy Lucas was bullied for being different. The 15-year-old never told anyone he was gay but students at Greensburg High School thought he was and so they picked on him.
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"People would call him 'fag' and stuff like that, just make fun of him because he's different basically," said student Dillen Swango. Students told Fox59 News it was common knowledge that children bullied Billy and from what they said, it was getting worse. Last Thursday, Billy's mother found him dead inside their barn. He had hung himself. Students said on that same day, some students told Billy to kill himself.
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Principal Phil Chapple doesn't deny that students are bullied in the high school, but he said he didn't know Billy was one of the victims. "We were not aware of that situation," said Chapple.
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It's clear though, on a memorial page created in Billy's honor that many people knew students bullied him. We found comments like "everyone made fun of him." "They said stuff like 'you're like a piece of crap' and 'you don't deserve to live.' Different things like that. Talked about how he was gay or whatever," said Swango.
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It's a common problem inside Greensburg High School that goes way back. "I was bullied several times because I was gay. I was called f**, queer. i was thrown up against lockers. I would tell the school officials about it and they would dismiss it," said a former student who did not want to be identified. He is 21 years old now and the awful memories of high school came rushing back when he heard about Billy's suicide.
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WTHR goes on to report in part as follows:
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"He was threatened to get beat up every day," friend and classmate Nick Hughes said. "Sometimes in classes, kids would act like they were going to punch him and stuff and push him." Chappel said that no one had been punished for picking on Lucas, and that bullying had not even hit their radar.
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Friends of Lucas say that he had been tormented for years. "Some people at school called him names," Hughes said, saying most of those names questioned Lucas' sexual orientation, and that Lucas, for the most part, did little to defend himself. "He would try to but people would just try to break him down with words and stuff and just pick on him," Hughes said.

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School staff need to be fired and the school system hit with a huge monetary judgment. If these bastards won't look out for all students because it is the morally right thing to do, then let them do so in order to keep their insurance carriers from dumping them. I hope all of the anti-gay bigots like Maggie Gallagher are pleased with their handiwork. Responsibility for Billy's death lays directly at their feet.