LGBTQ+ teens won a grant for their school. Adults sent the money back. Lynchburg school board rejects grant teens won from It Gets Better, a nonprofit founded to prevent LGBTQ+ youth suicide
wapo.st
The applicants made it clear the space wouldn’t be just for LGBTQ+ students. It would be for anyone who needs to “just breathe for a second,” said one of the students who confronted the adults Nov. 14.
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The grant asks for just one thing — that they identify the sponsors, something that every grant does, one school board member reminded the room. In this case, it would be with one simple phrase anywhere in the space: “It Gets Better.”
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I hope the members of that school board who supported its rejection are exposed and mercilessly harassed by the internet so they never know another day of peace in their miserable lives until they finally succumb to the pressure and do the world a favor by deciding to exit it.
That town is too far under the heel of Liberty University and Lynchburg Christian Academy for them to suffer much consequence.
Be the consequence you wish to see them experience
Unfortunately, I can't point at a place on the map and say "Volcano time a-go-go baby!' and have a volcano spontaneously erupt there.
Try harder
No, you need something more precise. A volcanic eruption would harm bystanders.
I can't afford a space laser.
Have you considered a conversion to Judaism? According to at least one member of Congress that seems to help!
Drat! Capitalism strikes again