Ethics

Anti-Gay Bullying - From a School Bus Driver

By Ed Brayton

We've got an incredible situation going on in Lansing, Michigan, where a school bus driver harassed a lesbian student on the bus - and another student recorded it on his cell phone camera. My colleague Todd Heywood has an article at the Michigan Messenger about the situation and the response from local activists and legislators.

When the girl went to get off the bus, the driver told her to "get your gay tail off my bus" and then said, "Hopefully you and your little girlfriend don't get lost in your unsaved lives." Another student captured that on his cellphone, and to their great credit her fellow students are standing up for her.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 07, 2009 (boomark / email).