ITP SOCIAL JUSTICE: Yet ANOTHER Teen Suicide This Week: Anti-Gay Bullying Blamed/Sup. Court Rejects Anti–Gay Marriage Vote

It has been reported that yet another teen suicide has happened, locally in the Hudson valley region of NY due to anti gay bullying. We at ITP wish Kameron Jacobsen of Monroe Woodbury High School in Orange County and Justin Dimino, a junior who was on the football team R.I.P.In good news, the U.S. Supreme Court reject gay marriage ban.

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Fourteen year old Kameron Jacobsen of Monroe Woodbury High School in Orange County, NY, committed suicide after suffering taunts and harassment via Facebook. Two weeks earlier, another teen, Justin Dimino, a junior who was on the football team, also committed suicide.

Via MyFox New York:

Sources said that Kameron Jacobsen of Monroe Woodbury High School was tormented by Facebook bullies who taunted him about what they thought was his sexual orientation.

Principal David Bernsley said the sense of loss is excruciating and that they are doing their best to cope.

“Our hearts go out to the families,” Bernsley said. “We’re devastated as a community.”

For Jacobsen’s family, the grief is beyond measure. Even with his death, online entries still sting. His older sister, Kierten, pleaded that people stop writing “rest in peace” entries and posting personal information about her baby brother.

There are at least four Facebook pages devoted to remembering Kameron Jacobsen.

Jacobsen’s anti-gay bullying suicide, along with the tragic suicide of openly-gay, Miltona, Minnesota eighteen-year old Lance Lundsten this past weekend, are but just two of who knows how many anti-gay bullying suicides that appear to increase in number at the beginning of school semesters. You’ll remember the more than ten anti-gay bullying suicides that we reported last September, at the start of the back-to-school season.

School and the federal government must begin to do a better job addressing this, and we al need to remember that the American people believe, as do I, that ultimately, the seed of hate comes from our churches.
FROM THE ADVOCATE THANKS TO NOH8:
Sup. Court Rejects Anti–Gay Marriage Vote
By Michelle Garcia
SUPREME COURT JUSTICES 201010 X390 (GETTY) | ADVOCATE.COM

The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday rejected an appeal from antigay advocates seeking to overturn Washington, D.C.'s marriage equality law, enacted in 2009, the Associated Press reports.

The court rejected the challenge led by Beltsville, Md., minister Harry Jackson, who sued the District's Board of Elections and Ethics when that board rejected his push to allow voters to decide whether Washington should sanction marriage equality. The board ruled that putting such a question on the ballot would violate its own antidiscrimination policies.

The Supreme Court held a private conference Friday to discuss the case, Jackson v. The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics.



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