 Gay youth's murder sparks tolerance debate How many more GLBT youth have to die before this country realizes the importance of education and tolerance? Quote:
Larry King was a gay eighth-grader who used to come to school in makeup, high heels and earrings. And when the other boys made fun of him, he would boldly tease them right back by flirting with them. That may have been what got him killed.
On Feb. 12, another student, Brandon McInerney, 14, shot him twice in the head at the back of the computer lab at their junior high school, police say.
The slaying of the 15-year-old boy has alarmed gay rights activists and led to demands that middle schools do more to educate youngsters about discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
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When I was growing up and a boy showed interest in me, I would tell him I was flattered but not interested. I didn't drag him in back of the chemistry lab and put a bullet in his skull. 
This same kind of hostility (including bullying, harrassment, and beatings) is prevalent in schools all over America. Yet people like garysher would prefer that homosexuality is never mentioned in schools so that this kind of hate and intolerance continues to breed.
I say the time has come when we should be required to teach and enforce tolerance in our schools. What do you all say? We're never going to prevent kids from being beaten up, harrassed, and even murdered by pretending they don't exist. Hate is NOT a 'family value.'
Feminism: the radical notion that women are human beings.
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