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bullies.jpgKeep those young Kentucky fingers crossed, boys and girls! The freaks, geeks and fuglies may wish to cross their toes as well, for good measure.

If the House Education Committee has its way, the days of being picked on, pushed around, beaten up and beaten down will soon come to an end.

The HEC unanimously approved an anti-bullying bill last week that, if given thumbs up by the Kentucky Legislature in the House and Senate, would curb the harassment, intimidation and plain old-fashioned schoolyard bullying.

It’s a fine plan, I read it. They’re calling it The Golden Rule Act.

Very straightforward, it is. It establishes a code of acceptable behavior, provides for training of teachers on how to deal, includes procedures empowering victims to report without fear of retaliation, and defines the proper comeuppance for offenders. All in all, I’d give it an A+.

There could be a bit of a bump in the road, however. A big bump, actually. A ginormous speedbump called the Republican-controlled Senate.

Similar previous versions of the bill have also been passed by the Democratically-controlled House, only to be shot down once reaching the floor of the Senate. Why, one might wonder?

Ah, here’s your answer. Idiot-at-large Senate President David Williams worries that if passed, the legislation could be used as “an excuse for the addition of curriculum concerning aberrant behavior.”

For those not fluent in Neoconese, aberrant = homosexual. FYI.

He’s concerned that if passed, the bill might be used to “teach curriculum that people aren’t interested in like homosexual, same-sex marriage sort of things like that.”

Perhaps I should re-read the bill. Maybe I missed something. Chat amongst yourselves.

Hmmm, nope. Nary reference to anything remotely suggesting the inclusion of Aberrancy 101 into the curriculum.

Of course, Williams himself said he hasn’t read the bill yet. How he has then jumped to such wacky conclusions, Lord only knows. There’s really no explaining the misfiring synapses of the Republican mind.

But one must never lose hope. Who knows? Maybe this time the planets will align, hell will freeze over, Republicans will experience a rare moment of lucidity, and all four-eyed, pizza-faced, metal-mouthed fatties down Kentucky way can breathe a collective sigh of relief. It could happen.

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9 Responses to “Kentucky’s Bully Pulpit”

  1. Doug Burkhart Says:

    God bless those dear Republicans fighting all those radical Muslims, feminists, homosexuals, secular humanists, socialist-leaning Democrats, immigrants, blah, blah, blah. No time to do anything really constructive with all that fear-mongering going on

  2. little navigator Says:

    as a former bully i’m glad the measure wasn’t on the table when i was in school. bully’s are always getting picked on. so not fair.
    :-)

    i see so many paralells between the minority community and our fight for civil rights and the gay community’s. because of this, i feel empathy, not sympathy, for the gay community.

  3. Doug Robertson Says:

    i think many of us in the gay community are more empathetic of other minorities as well. well, some of us. the rest are too busy having *fabulous* times and stuff to care.

  4. rainlillie Says:

    “God bless those dear Republicans fighting all those radical Muslims, feminists, homosexuals, secular humanists, socialist-leaning Democrats, immigrants, blah, blah, blah. No time to do anything really constructive with all that fear-mongering going on.”

    LOL! Thanks Doug B ,It all makes sense now.

    “i think many of us in the gay community are more empathetic of other minorities as well.”

    I think you’re right.

  5. Diane J Standiford Says:

    Yeah, creep can’t even call it what he means. A gay guy was beat into a coma last week in Seattle, Teacher of the Year 2007, he just picked up hs cell phone to call 911 ’cause the jerk was harrassing a woman where they were all waiting on a bus. Kids often bully with homophobic slurs, suicides on rise of school kids—connect the dots Dumb Bell Dorf.

  6. rainlillie Says:

    “suicides on rise of school kids—connect the dots Dumb Bell Dorf.”

    Sad but true. My sister works with gay and lesbian kids who are at risk for suicides.

  7. little navigator Says:

    Diane, it sounds as though the teacher was assualted because he tried to help someone, not because he is gay.

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  9. SaraLee Says:

    I don’t think they ever actually read any bill! Hence, the USA Patriot Act was passed a month after 9/11, oh nooo, dont actually read the bill because it might take too long!

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