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Scary

MammaMia — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:43:55 -0700

This shows that laws don't make people change their actions. This family is harassed and abused although Massachusetts has progressive laws for same-sex families.

No one's really safe - regardless of legal civil rights protections.

It bums me out...

Olive5150

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:45:57 -0700

In Massachusett's? Seems to be a hillbilly sanction as well as my backwards (southern) part of the state that is OHIO. I am in the blueset, Northest OH, part of the state and yet where is our secession recall? North and South OHIO. Should have been done sooooo long ago. Secede now! Now, we say. Now. Peace and go Tribe.

The daughter of a Massachusetts lesbian is abused and threatened at school after she tells classmates about her family.

Community Editor — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:27:38 -0700

Virginia Gaffey's 9-year-old daughter was escorted around school by a bodyguard - and eventually transferred to a different school - because of continued harassment from schoolmates in her elementary school.

Speaking to the School Committee, Gaffey (pictured) claimed that Milton Public Schools, in Massachusetts, is failing to teach students about tolerance and diversity,