Every morning, Brittany Geldert stepped off the bus and bolted through the double doors of Fred Moore Middle School, her nerves already on high alert, bracing for the inevitable.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\u201cDyke.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nPretending not to hear, Brittany would walk briskly to her locker, past the sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders who loitered in menacing packs.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\u201cWhore.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nLike many 13-year-olds, Brittany knew seventh grade was a living hell. But what she didn\u2019t know was that she was caught in the crossfire of a culture war being waged by local evangelicals inspired by their high-profile congressional representative Michele Bachmann, who graduated from Anoka High School and, until recently, was a member of one of the most conservative churches in the area. When Christian activists who considered gays an abomination forced a measure through the school board forbidding the discussion of homosexuality in the district\u2019s public schools, kids like Brittany were unknowingly thrust into the heart of a clash that was about to become intertwined with tragedy.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
There was another common thread: Four of the nine dead were either gay or perceived as such by other kids, and were reportedly bullied. The tragedies come at a national moment when bullying is on everyone\u2019s lips, and a devastating number of gay teens across the country are in the news for killing themselves. Suicide rates among gay and lesbian kids are frighteningly high, with attempt rates four times that of their straight counterparts; studies show that one-third of all gay youth have attempted suicide at some point (versus 13 percent of hetero kids), and that internalized homophobia contributes to suicide risk.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nAgainst this supercharged backdrop, the Anoka-Hennepin school district finds itself in the spotlight not only for the sheer number of suicides but because it is accused of having contributed to the death toll by cultivating an extreme anti-gay climate. \u201c<\/strong>LGBTQ students don\u2019t feel safe at school,\u201d says Anoka Middle School for the Arts teacher Jefferson Fietek, using the acronym for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning. \u201cThey\u2019re made to feel ashamed of who they are. They\u2019re bullied. And there\u2019s no one to stand up for them, because teachers are afraid of being fired.\u201d<\/strong><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThese teens, then, were victims of the anti-gay climate fostered in the school district by school rules against discussion of homosexuality put in place under pressure from local evangelicals. If you\u2019re told that you are an abomination every day, day after day, you eventually start to feel like there\u2019s something wrong with you. If even teachers don\u2019t stand up for you, you start to feel like you\u2019re not worth protecting. Maybe you should just end it all. And an alarming number of these teens did. <\/span><\/p>\nIn April, Justin came home from school and found his mother at the top of the stairs, tending to the saltwater fish tank. \u201cMom,\u201d he said tentatively, \u201ca kid told me at school today I\u2019m gonna go to hell because I\u2019m gay.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\u201cThat\u2019s not true. God loves everybody,\u201d his mom replied. \u201cThat kid needs to go home and read his Bible.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nJustin shrugged and smiled, then retreated to his room. It had been a hard day: the annual \u201cDay of Truth\u201d had been held at school, an evangelical event then-sponsored by the anti-gay ministry Exodus International, whose mission is to usher gays back to wholeness and \u201cvictory in Christ\u201d by converting them to heterosexuality. Day of Truth has been a font of controversy that has bounced in and out of the courts; its legality was affirmed last March, when a federal appeals court ruled that two Naperville, Illinois, high school students\u2019 Day of Truth T-shirts reading BE HAPPY, NOT GAY were protected by their First Amendment rights. (However, the event, now sponsored by Focus on the Family, has been renamed \u201cDay of Dialogue.\u201d) Local churches had been touting the program, and students had obediently shown up at Anoka High School wearing day of truth T-shirts, preaching in the halls about the sin of homosexuality. Justin wanted to brush them off, but was troubled by their proselytizing. Secretly, he had begun to worry that maybe he was an abomination, like the Bible said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThis is what is meant by creating an \u201canti-gay\u201d climate. And yes, Justin went on to commit suicide. How did evangelicals respond to accusations that they had created an anti-gay climate that had led these gay teens to commit suicide? <\/span><\/p>\nMinnesota Family Council president Tom Prichard blogged that Justin\u2019s suicide could only be blamed upon one thing: his gayness. \u201cYouth who embrace homosexuality are at greater risk [of suicide], because they\u2019ve embraced an unhealthy sexual identity and lifestyle,\u201d <\/strong>Prichard wrote. Anoka-Hennepin conservatives formally organized into the Parents Action League, declaring opposition to the \u201cradical homosexual\u201d agenda in schools. Its stated goals, advertised on its website, included promoting Day of Truth, providing resources for students \u201cseeking to leave the homosexual lifestyle,\u201d supporting the neutrality policy and targeting \u201cpro-gay activist teachers who fail to abide by district policies.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nAsked on a radio program whether the anti-gay agenda of her ilk bore any responsibility for the bullying and suicides, Barb Anderson, co-author of the original \u201cNo Homo Promo,\u201d held fast to her principles, blaming\u00a0pro-gay<\/em> groups for the tragedies. She explained that such \u201cchild corruption\u201d agencies allow \u201cquote-unquote gay kids\u201d to wrongly feel legitimized. \u201cAnd then these kids are locked into a lifestyle with their choices limited, and many times this can be disastrous to them as they get into the behavior which leads to disease and death,\u201d <\/strong>Anderson said. She added that if LGBT kids weren\u2019t encouraged to come out of the closet in the first place, they wouldn\u2019t be in a position to be bullied.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nTo evangelicals, the problem is gay activism. These teens, evangelicals argue, committed suicide not because they were bullied or made to feel worthless, but rather because they were gay. Being gay is a \u201cdestructive lifestyle\u201d that leads to high suicide rates, spiritual darkness, devastating diseases, and, finally, death. The solution is not to validate these teens\u2019 \u201chomosexual temptations\u201d as gay activists would. The solution is not to tell these teens that \u201cthis is how you are and you can\u2019t change\u201d but rather to work to change <\/em>these teens so that they can live long happy godly lives.<\/span><\/p>\nThis is why evangelicals in the Parents Action League have responded to these suicides by urging that ex-gay therapy be taught in the schools. It is also the reason the PAL wants the district to teach students about \u201cGay Related Immune Deficiency\u201d (\u201cGRID\u201d) and the other health risks of the \u201cgay lifestyle.\u201d AIDS has not been referred to as GRID in the medical community for over twenty-five years, and is no longer seen as a \u201cgay\u201d problem, but you have to understand that when AIDS first came to public attention in the 1980s it was <\/em>seen as a gay problem and was even seen by many as God\u2019s judgement on gay people for their gross immorality.<\/span><\/p>\nThe evangelicals in the Parents Action League mean well. They\u2019re not rubbing their hands in glee wondering how many other gay teens they can rid the earth of. They believe what they\u2019re saying. They believe that gay tendencies can be cured, that the \u201cgay lifestyle\u201d is destructive and harmful, and that the most loving thing you can do for these \u201cgay teens\u201d is to teach them the Truth, not tell them that they are stuck with their immoral feelings and locked into a tragic life.<\/span><\/p>\nAnd that is why I say it\u2019s almost impossible for these two groups to communicate. Anytime a gay rights advocate says \u201cwe just need equal rights, freedom, and safety for all, including in our schools\u201d these evangelicals hear \u201cwe want to tell these kids they have to follow our immoral and destructive lifestyle.\u201d When the evangelicals say \u201cwe just need to cure these kids and turn them away from destructive lifestyles,\u201d gays hear \u201cwe need to make these kids\u2019 lives hell and fill them with self loathing.\u201d It makes me think of this poster that was recently sent home with high school kids in Maryland: <\/span><\/p>\n[Poster since removed]<\/p>\n
This poster turns everything on its head. It\u2019s all about explaining that people with gay attractions can change their sexual orientations and be straight. They don\u2019t have to<\/em> be gay and shouldn\u2019t be forced to. The most relevant excerpt is this: <\/span><\/p>\nHowever, there are those in society who refuse to respect an individual\u2019s right to self-determination. Consequently, formerly gay men and women are discriminated against simply because they dare to exist. Ex-gays and their <\/span>supporters are denied equal access and support, forcing them to remain silent for fear of negative reactions and disapproval.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nIn other words, the ones who are being discriminated against are the ones who are spreading the message that gays can change, that they don\u2019t have to live those destructive \u201clifestyles,\u201d they can live long, happy, normal lives if they want. The problem is the gay rights advocates who are trying to make <\/em>people gay whether they want to be or not. If they would stop telling people with gay tendencies that they\u2019re gay and it\u2019s okay, those people could find a way to change and gain love, acceptance, and spiritual healing. <\/span><\/p>\nOf course, this is all predicated on several myths. <\/span><\/p>\nMyth #1: People aren\u2019t born <\/em>gay, they are made <\/em>gay by environmental factors. <\/span>
\nMyth #2: Gay people can actually become <\/em>straight through reparative therapy. <\/span>
\nMyth #3: The \u201cgay lifestyle\u201d is destructive and leads to depression and early death. <\/span>
\nMyth #4: Gay people commit suicide because it gives them a tendency toward suicide. <\/span><\/p>\nThe truth is that gay people don\u2019t \u201cchoose\u201d to be gay any more than straight people \u201cchoose\u201d to be straight. You can\u2019t choose who you feel physically attracted to. Try looking at a picture of someone you feel no sexual attraction for, and then forcing yourself to feel sexually attracted to him\/her. Or vice versa, try looking at a picture of someone you find very sexually attractive and then feeling no sexual attraction for him\/her. It doesn\u2019t work that way. Gay people can choose to love celibate lives or can marry someone of the opposite gender in an attempt to \u201cfix\u201d themselves, but that doesn\u2019t change their sexual attractions. Oh, and no one is trying to tell gay people want to be\u00a0celibate\u00a0or marry those of the opposite gender that they can\u2019t do that, but rather that there are other valid options out there for them. <\/span><\/p>\nThe truth is that gay people are at higher risk from suicide because of homophobia,<\/em> not because they\u2019re gay. I know a gay guy who tried to kill himself in high school because of the messages he received in church. He didn\u2019t try to kill himself because he had gay attractions, but rather because he believed those gay attractions meant he was sinful and evil, and he try as he might he couldn\u2019t change those attractions. Those gay teens killed themselves because they couldn\u2019t see a worthwhile future in the midst of the hell they were living in, a hell created by homophobia, not by their gayness.<\/span><\/p>\n\n
But there\u2019s a deeper problem. Even dispelling these myths won\u2019t change the minds of evangelicals like those on the Parents Action League. Why? Because their real objections come from the Bible. They dress it up by talking about the \u201cdestructiveness\u201d of the \u201cgay lifestyle\u201d (and they really do believe that), but their objections come, at the base, from Bible verses condemning homosexuality as \u201can abomination.\u201d Now there are gay Christians who explain that those verses are all misunderstood, but evangelicals, like their fundamentalist kin, generally take the Bible fairly literally and look askance at attempts to \u201creinterpret\u201d the traditional understandings of key Bible passages. For them, the Bible says it\u2019s wrong, so it\u2019s wrong. <\/span><\/p>\nGiven that, I\u2019m not\u00a0completely\u00a0sure how to fix this problem. The best solution, I suppose, is to continue the strategy of normalizing homosexuality \u2013 the more gay people someone knows, normal, worthwhile, fulfilled gay people, the harder it becomes to sustain beliefs in the immorality and destructive nature of the \u201cgay lifestyle.\u201d In other words, we can keep working to dispel the four myths listed above. And if poll numbers are any indication, this strategy is succeeding. But it\u2019s important to remember that as long as there are those who believe the Bible condemns homosexuality as sinful, immoral, and destructive, though, we will always have people like those on the Parents Action League urging that the real solution is to \u201ccure\u201d gay teens. Deeply held religious beliefs don\u2019t always allow for a lot of give, and this is one situation where we see that loud and clear. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many of you may already have read this piece on Rolling Stone about the rash of suicides in Minnesota\u2019s Anoka-Hennepin School District. In a nutshell, the districts \u201cno homo promo\u201d policy has resulted in a very negative school atmosphere for gay teens, a half a dozen of whom have taken their lives in response. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":845,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[148,110],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evangelicalism-fundamentalism","tag-christian-right","tag-lgbtq"],"yoast_head":"\n
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