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Proud Liberal Dem

(24,412 posts)
7. Thanks
Wed Dec 5, 2012, 03:52 PM
Dec 2012

I'm sure that she has some challenges ahead of her but, hopefully, feeling alone won't be one of them. She wants to hightail it to Canada when she gets done with College, which is sort of sad because she will be pretty far away from us- but if I were gay, I imagine that I'd be frustrated with the glacial pace of social change here in the red state hell known as Indiana where we just elected Mike Pence governor and our deep red legislature appears intent on pushing for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage (passed last legislature, needs to pass another one and then it comes to the voters as a referendum).


Interestingly, our leaders can't seem to figure out why we have such a huge problem with "brain drain" in our state. Maybe that's also why our politics are getting worse outside of a few progressive enclaves such as Indy, Bloomington, and some areas of northern Indiana (Lake County).

Very sad Proud Liberal Dem Dec 2012 #1
I can only hope that this experiece continues for her. Whovian Dec 2012 #5
Thanks Proud Liberal Dem Dec 2012 #7
Let the lawsuits fly Prism Dec 2012 #2
This was not bullying. lalalu Dec 2012 #3
Poor kid. Feel terrible for the parents, too--there is little TwilightGardener Dec 2012 #4
your son - take the HS equivalence test and get the hell out of there nt msongs Dec 2012 #9
I honestly haven't thought of that. He wants to TwilightGardener Dec 2012 #10
How horrible :( gollygee Dec 2012 #6
This is awful. mstinamotorcity2 Dec 2012 #8
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