I suspect that few, if any, such bullies are people who regularly attend church.
What's in a name? A 12-year-old girl at Hernando Middle School in Mississippi was beaten by five fellow students—reportedly because they said her name, Randi, was "a boy name.""They started talking about me like I was a man," she told local news station WREG. "That I shouldn't be in this world. And my name was a boy name." The four girls and a boy surrounded her after a Fellowship of Christian Students meeting, and, she said, kicked her in the rib and leg, hit her in the face, sat on her, pushed her face into the floor, and threw her onto a cafeteria table.
Apparently, the incident was caught on surveillance camera, but in order to maintain student privacy, the film has not been released. A school administrator issued a statement, said WREG, that "fighting is not tolerated and that disciplinary action will be taken to the fullest extent of the law."
When five Christian students beat up a 12-year-old girl because she has a non-gender-conforming name (?!?!)—kicking her, hitting her, pushing her to the floor, throwing her into furniture—that's not a "fight." That's assault. And assault is a crime, not a "discipline" problem, and this girl's parents should go the police and file a report and press charges against the bigoted little Christian thugs at Hernando Middle School.
And Tony Perkins should go fuck himself.
