Via Jezebel, Candi Cushman of Focus on the Family, the Christian conservative group, believes that anti-bullying campaigns push a gay agenda because they try to prevent the bullying of, among others, LGTB students.
For Cushman, though, that means an anti-Christian agenda.
'We feel more and more that activists are being deceptive in using anti-bullying rhetoric to introduce their viewpoints, while the viewpoint of Christian students and parents are increasingly belittled,' Cushman said.
Public schools increasingly convey that homosexuality is normal and should be accepted, Cushman said, while opposing viewpoints by conservative Christians are portrayed as bigotry.
Statements like this come from the same point of view as the kinds of statements Dr. Laura Schlessinger made after she berated a black caller asking for advice on racism, and Glenn Beck made when he said we're living in a world just like the '50s but with the races reversed: Asking the white Christian majority to respect the rights of others is somehow an infringement on their rights.
How do anti-bullying programs in schools hurt Christians? It doesn't, unless they're bullies. What many on the Christian right miss, because they're too busy nursing their persecution complexes, is how pervasive, omnipresent, and exclusionary their particular brand of religion is. Say that, though, and you're anti-Christian.
-- Monica Potts
