MFC called on Christian parents, and all people of goodwill, to encourage their children to stand up to the bullies like Jesus stood up for the woman about to be stoned in John 8:3-11.

Clearly, we can all agree that bullying of GLBT students is wrong while disagreeing on things like anti-bullying curricula.

See Tom Prichard’s article in the Star Tribune about bullying at Anoka-Hennepin schools and “anti-homophobia” curricula.

http://tinyurl.com/22vgqbd

It is interesting the Barb Anderson shared the call for parents to encourage their children to stand up to the bullies, yet Hagerty didn’t report it. Even though her article was about religious undercurrents. It is our opinion that Hagerty had an agenda and pressed Anderson for more controversial remarks. She got what she needed from Perkins.

Chuck Darrell

Minnesota Family Council

This man should be fired the schools are out of hand . All these small comunities

have cover-ups and sweep it under the rug. It is people just like this man that has

who has encourage this bad behaver.

Take a look at your soul, if you want to harm anyone you are liking in your salavation.

Forget not it is God who will do the Judging.

God made everyone of these as he did you. What is your hair color are handsome are you handicap or you born with the X+Y or only Y or X gean. Remember there is no gender untill a period of time after you concieved. I am a proude Mother of my children. God bless them with health and happiness and love we tought them for all people be it not for the grace of God there go we.

This man should be fired the schools are out of hand . All these small comunities

have cover-ups and sweep it under the rug. It is people just like this man that has

who has encourage this bad behaver.

Take a look at your soul, if you want to harm anyone you are liking in your salavation.

Forget not it is God who will do the Judging.

God made everyone of these as he did you. What is your hair color are handsome are you handicap or you born with the X+Y or only Y or X gean. Remember there is no gender untill a period of time after you concieved. I am a proude Mother of my children. God bless them with health and happiness and love we tought them for all people be it not for the grace of God there go we.

In particular, your assertion that we surely “all agree that bullying of GLBT students is wrong” caused paroxysms of laughter. If the MFC thought that bullying was a moral wrong, then why for its entire existence has it done nothing to combat bullying in the same manner that it combats “the gay agenda” or abortion? For decades, gay kids and non-gay kids in Minnesota have been punched, kicked, scratched, stabbed, hit with blunt objects, thrown down stairs, pushed into lockers, barraged with verbal abuse, humiliated, driven from school and ultimately from life itself. In response, MFC founded some 20 years ago, has done exactly nothing. No statewide ballot initiatives. No public education campaign. No lobbying effort. Nothing.

“Nothing“, not coincidentally, also describes the cumulative legislative and administrative anti-bullying reforms effected by Focus on the Family, every Family Policy Council in every state, the AFA, CWFA, and the FRC since they came into existence. As with MFC, the only time these groups are moved to mention the issue is by way of a brief concession prior to an attack on gays and their anti-bullying proposals.

For but the latest example, I refer you to today‘s 755-word press release “Real Christians Say ‘No’ to Bullying and Homosexual Behavior.” While the main value of this document, when read in full, is to indict real Christians as incomparably cruel, paranoid, and casually defamatory, that is not why I mention it now. I mention it to note that of the 755 words, 5 are directed at bullying. Not even anti-gay bullying; the authors can’t even bring themselves to mention that. No, all bullying violence against hundreds of thousands of children warrants 5 words. You can guess at what is the focus of the other 99% of the press release.

So no, we can’t “all agree that bullying of GLBT students is wrong” because there is nothing in your actions over years and decades that suggests that you do believe that. And even if we were to credit your belated, self-serving denunciations of bullying, the best conclusion in light of all of your statements on the subject is that you view such violent conduct, in and of itself, as a nuisance, and elevate it to a serious moral issue only to the extent that it threatens to bring a discussion of gays into the classroom.

Finally, I found it extraordinarily entertaining to see you invoke the story of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. When Mary Magdalene faced the imminent threat of death or bodily harm by mob violence, Jesus Christ did not simultaneously denounce the mob and the mob’s victim. He didn’t launch in to a speech, 99 percent focused on attacking Mary. He didn’t speculate that perhaps Mary was not scared of the mob, but despaired of her own depravity. And he didn’t worry that, by defending Mary from death, he might be encouraging the hooker agenda.

He interposed himself between the mob and the victim. At great risk, he protected her. He disbursed the mob. And when the danger had completely passed, and only then, did he say to her “Go and sin no more.” This story isn’t support for your position. It is the best evidence that you have eschewed Christ’s approach and instead follow the idol of your own political goals and policy priorities, which obsess on the supposed sin of the victim rather than the violence done to him.

Please keep at it. Nothing could discredit Christianity more effectively.