{"id":8100,"date":"2018-08-28T12:50:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T10:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8100"},"modified":"2018-08-28T12:53:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T10:53:39","slug":"driven-to-suicide-by-bullies-or-his-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/8100\/","title":{"rendered":"Driven to suicide by bullies, or his mother?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s something missing from this story<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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A nine-year-old boy has killed himself after enduring four days of homophobic bullying at school in Denver, Colorado, his mother says.<\/p>\n

Leia Pierce told KDVR-TV\u00a0that her son, Jamel Myles, revealed to her over the summer that he was gay.<\/p>\n

She said Jamel wanted to go to school and tell his classmates because he was “proud” to be gay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve spent a good portion of this summer staying with families, and the thing that always amuses me about children under ten is how hopelessly, wonderfully innocent they are. They really have no concept of adult life and its vices, and that includes sex and sexuality. Now children can feel attractions of one sort of another, and homosexuals when they reach adulthood say they always knew they felt “different”, but they don’t have the faintest understanding why<\/em>. This is why sex crimes against children are so abhorrent, they are incapable of understanding what is being done to them. The only way a child of nine can possibly be “proud” to be gay is if his parents, or others around him, have exposed him to sex or drummed sexuality into him long before he’s capable of grasping the concept.<\/p>\n

She said that when he had told her he was gay, he looked “so scared”, but she reassured him she still loved him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If your nine year old son is telling you he’s gay, you should perhaps ask yourself what environment he’s grown up in. Now there is no mention of a father here; what’s the betting this woman raised her children in an ultra-woke environment where they were exposed to swathes of adult sexuality and encouraged to indirectly participate, i.e. talking about it, seeing naked adults, or declaring pride in one’s supposed orientation? It certainly wouldn’t be the first time a single mother has forced her son to adopt feminine traits<\/a> at an age where he cannot possibly understand, let alone object.<\/p>\n

“My son told my oldest daughter the kids at school told him to kill himself,” Ms Pierce said.<\/p>\n

“I’m just sad he didn’t come to me. I’m so upset that he thought that was his option.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It sounds as though the child had serious mental problems, probably as a result of his upbringing. What does the mother have to say about that, I wonder?<\/p>\n

But there’s another issue here. Supposing it’s true that this child went to school boasting he’s gay and the other kids bullied him so much he committed suicide. What are we going to do about it? That young children can be notoriously cruel is hardly new; most of us read Lord of the Flies<\/em> at school. Either schools attempt the impossible task of getting under tens to not bully the odd kid, or they start locking up nine year olds for homophobic bullying (or at least sending them home, and perhaps jailing their parents).<\/p>\n

There is another option, of course: stop sexualising children so much they are proudly gay at age nine and bragging about it in the school yard. If we let children be children instead of extensions of their parents’ deep insecurities and unwilling participants in their political activism, this wouldn’t be a problem. However, I don’t hold out much hope. The way we’re heading under our current rulers, paedophilia will soon be celebrated (unless the perpetrator is Catholic) and normal parents locked up if their child so much as teases someone in an unapproved manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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