>Is there a developed nation more messed up over religion than the U.S.? It's hard to imagine. Here are two stories from today's paper.
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>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-lesbian-student_bdaug24,0,3076038.story
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>When a high school senior told her principal that students were taunting her for being a lesbian, he told her that homosexuality is wrong, outed her to her parents and ordered her to stay away from children.
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>He suspended some of her friends who expressed their outrage by wearing gay pride T-shirts and buttons at Ponce de Leon High School, according to court records. And he asked dozens of students whether they were gay or associated with gay students.

More worrisome:
"...said Steve Griffin, Holmes County's school superintendent, who keeps a Bible on his desk and framed Scriptures on his office walls."

Huh? How long would anyone last in any public position for displaying FSM insignia in such an office, or quotations from Jean Paul Sartre, Lumiére brothers, Stockhausen, Albert Schweizer or mr Penkala himself? I guess they may have been arrested on the spot.