Michigan's Pro-Bullying Bill

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On Wednesday, the Republican-controlled state senate passed an anti-bullying bill that manages to protect school bullies instead of those they victimize. It accomplishes this impressive feat by allowing students, teachers, and other school employees to claim that a sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction justifies their harassment.

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Really?Give me a huge ass motherfucking break!

Haha so bullies can now bully Christians, Muslims, Jews and the like but not atheists or at least not agnostics.

No, it means that you can literally bully anyone you want, as long as you claim that you are doing so because of a "deeply held religious belief".

so basically i could come to one of your schools enter a class room draw out a gun rape the teacher on the table in-front of the students, then claim it was a deeply held religious belief that drove me to it.

It would depend on the legal definition of 'harassment'.
If you could successfully argue that 'rape' is 'harassment', then yes - but I doubt that you could.But it is a thin undefined line between 'harassment' and 'assault'.Edited by Panda, : No reason given.Edited by Panda, : No reason given.

off course rape is harassment if it where not harassment then it would just be 2 adults having consensual sex.edit:
If i use lube lol no physical harm comes to her only mental psyhcal harm as is inflicted by harassment. Edited by frako, : No reason given.

The big point I was trying to make was that the Puglies are getting bolder and bolder with the shit ass crazy evil they are willing to sling around in the government.Will anyone ever notice before it's too late? Will people actually say 'woah! this is going too far... you guys is outa here'? Or... will they tell their kids it's now okay to beat up the queers on the bus?JonEdited by Jon, : No reason given.

If you commit rape you are arrested for rape.
You cannot argue that rape is also assault and that you should therefore only be arrested for assault.
You cannot argue that rape is also harassment and that you should only be arrested for harassment.The law prosecutes on the 'worst crime', not on the 'least'.

No i think pretty soon the your religious fanatics will realize that they are not the craziest bunch out there and when Muslims instead of fanatical Christians start using their harassment rights things are going to change drastically.

in court i would plead not guilty and then my defense would be that it wasn't rape just harassment
Because the almighty Jesus told me to rape her i harassed her out of my deeply held beliefs and so am not guilty of any crime.im kidding, just trying to see how fare one could take such a law.

But technically sexual harassment would work right?

I saw plenty of sexual harassment at school that was simply described as bullying, so I would expect that there was a good chance of making that plea.That is the problem with bill - it not only allows people to continue to treat bullying as something 'natural' or 'unimportant', but it also gives people more reasons to justify it.
And the vague line drawn between bullying and assault remains untouched.

Well, if I understand correctly, the entire point of the bill was to allow such sexual harassment, particularly directed against gays and lesbians.I mean, you have to make sure these wing nut children have the right to express their religious hatred of homosexuality... even if it means beating the shit out of someone who has done nothing wrong.Jon

dang america is turning fascistEdit:hitler probably started that way make it legal to do hit to jews, gyipsies, gays...
Cause you know they run the banks, and are responsible for our debt ..... Edited by frako, : No reason given.

Don't know what's going on here, but in lots of cases one or the other legislative chambers will pass statement bills that probably won't be considered by the other chamber and which become null and void at the end of the current legislative session. Let's hope that this is one of them.But lets expose the stink in the room as being an elephant. How is this law not directed at anything other than encouraging gay bashing?