School Of Hate Summary

The article “School of Hate” was written by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, who is an American Magazine writer who lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has written many articles for the likes of Rolling stone, Gentleman’s Quarterly, and The New Yorker. In the article Erdely discusses the bullying and homophobia that happened in the Anoka-Hennepin school district during the mid-2000s. Her article gives both points of view from the kids being bullied, as well as from the religious conservatives who thought that nothing was wrong with the homophobic slurs that were being said to children and teenagers. One may disagree with the perspective of the religious conservatives. Some religious conservatives feel that they have all this religion, they read the bible, but they still treat other human beings with different values and morals other than their own so horribly.
Many people were raised in the church all of their childhood lives and teenage years. Their families and the church taught them the same thing through their religions that homosexuality was wrong. At one time in their lives they had the fear of homosexuals that they were

This annual events mission was to usher gay students back to wholeness and “victory in Christ” by trying to convert the students back to heterosexuals. The local churches had been hyping up the program to their teenagers and the students had shown up to school that day wearing their Day of Truth t-shirts. One of the students that had committed suicide Justin Aberg came home to his mom that day and told his mom that the students at school said “he was going to hell because he was gay”. Justin’s mom told him “that’s not true. God loves everybody”. This is just one example of the religious conservatives having students do their bidding and students who had different beliefs than their