Original Message From:
Zeke
Individually To: Chris
Hart, Jim
Sebesta, Bob
Graham & Jim
Davis
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002
Subject: Two Messages on Florida Dignity for all Students
Act Different Text
I have sent you a few automated form email
messages, to assure my voice is not lost on this issue, I am taking the time to write you personally.
I am very concerned with the treatment our
gay and lesbian high school students. Study after study has
shown that bias, torment, harassment and discrimination
of gay students is rampant throughout our public
schools. As if this was not disgraceful enough,
when students turned to our Florida legislature for
help, they were horrifically berated, ridiculed and condemned. This first hand lesson of religious bias, discrimination
and hatred by one of our Representatives, further, fuels the anti-gay atmosphere in our schools. The abuse
by one of our lawmakers serves as an example
of the type abuse our gay youth endure and the
desperate need for your support to protect them..
I would ask that you take a stand against such
treatment of our gay students and protect them from the reprehensible verbal
and physical abuse they endure daily. The Florida
Dignity for all Students Act requires your immediate attention
and support. It is an important piece of legislation that directly addresses the plight of
gay students. It will offer our gay students the much needed protection they
deserve and could lead to ending harassment and discrimination of gay students
on our schools.
Please, support the Florida Dignity for all
Students Act and it passage into law. Don't all it to get sent into a
legislative holding pattern and stalled forever. The lives of our gay youth in
in your hands, I pray you will do what school officials have failed to
do.
Respectively
R. Zeke Fread
Tampa Florida 33629-6022