Perspective | LGBTQ+ teens won a grant for their school. Adults sent the money back.
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The Lynchburg school board rejected a grant teens won from It Gets Better, a nonprofit founded to prevent LGBTQ+ youth suicide.

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.”

  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
    221·
    11 months ago

    Why is there no group out there exposing these fake Christians for the heathens that they are?

    • drmeanfeel@lemmy.world
      111·
      11 months ago

      These are Christians. Christians can’t hide behind No True Scotsman, deciding every time one of them is a despicable piece of shit that they aren’t “real”

    • littlewonder@lemmy.world
      8·
      11 months ago

      There are two potential answers to this and they both suck:

      1. The “God is love” Christian majority doesn’t hold the extreme nationalist/dominionist Christians accountable.

      2. The extremists ARE the Christian majority.