School bus driver ignores plea for help from kid beaten with metal pipe because he is gay

A Texas teenager was chased by a group of his peers and beaten with a metal pipe because he is gay. The school bus driver did nothing. The school did nothing. The assailants yelled, "You're not going to be gay anymore." They continued until a neighbor with a shotgun cocked his weapon. Read the full story here. THIS is why it is important for the federal Gov't to say "NO, it's not ok to discriminate against LGBT people." Sign the petition to amend the Civil Rights Act to include LGBT status here: www.thepoweronline.org. Hate crimes laws help insure that perpetrators of hate crimes will be prosecuted. But they aren't enough. We need to stop hate from turning into an actionable idea. As long as the government refuses to protect our civil rights and refuses to recognize us as a legitimate part of society and a minority worthy of protection, it continues to send a message that efforts to eliminate homosexuality, whether through discrimination, religious teachings, ex-gay indoctrination, or by other means are acceptable. Some teenagers took that message to a brutal extreme. It has to stop.