Indiana Students Want Separate Prom That Bans Gay Students

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A group of Indiana students are rallying for a separate prom that excludes homosexual students, WTWO reports.

The students, their parents, teachers, and others believe gays should be banned from the Sullivan High School prom next Sunday at the Sullivan First Christian Church.

“We don’t agree with [homosexuality] and it’s offensive to us,” said Diana Medley, a special education teacher at another school in town.

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Petition to Cancel TLC’s ‘Sisterhood’ gaining momentum

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958,000 is roughly the number of viewers who tuned in to watch the series premiere of TLC’s reality TV show Sisterhood last Tuesday. In fact, the number of viewers who tuned in was so low that the show is not even listed on the TV ratings charts for shows that aired on January 1st.

Apparently, TLC’s decision to cut the check for a reality show that focuses on preacher’s wives was not a good move.

250 is the number of signatures reached on a petition to pressure TLC into canceling the show. But the petition might not be necessary.

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Swedes Protest Chris Brown Concert – with Posters Featuring Rihanna’s Bloody Face

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There are certain crimes against humanity that cannot be forgiven simply because the offender has served his time. Particularly violent crimes against women.

Women’s groups around the world are not willing to let Chris Brown off the hook 3 years after he was convicted of beating his then-girlfriend Rihanna to a bloody pulp.

Protesters in Sweden took to the streets to express their disapproval at an upcoming Chris Brown concert there. The Huffington Post reports that posters featuring Rihanna’s mutilated face have been plastered on walls all over Stockholm.

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America’s Children Are Hungry – and they’re blaming Michelle Obama’s school lunch menu

America’s children are starving as a result of the controversial mandated National school lunch policy, which is the brain child of the first lady Michelle Obama.

Mrs. Obama is fighting obesity by forcing children to subsist on vegetables, fruit, whole grains and nuts.

But a group of students are protesting what they see as forced starvation diets. They say they are hungry and they’re not taking the school lunch policy sitting down.

In a video uploaded to YouTube.com, hungry students faint from lack of energy after eating the 750-850 calories that Mrs. Obama’s school lunches provide.

The children argue that the low calories are not enough to meet the physical needs of growing teenagers.

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Music blog launches app that blocks all mentions of Chris Brown from the Internet

It’s been 3 years since the unfortunate fisticuffs between singers Chris Brown and ex-girlfriend Rihanna, but Brown is still feeling the backlash.

A Canadian music blog has launched an app that blocks all mentions of Chris Brown’s name from the Internet. The Toronto-based website AUX launched their app called “Brownout” that currently only works in the Google Chrome browser.

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Domestic Abuse Stickers Help Chris Brown’s Album Sales

A British student union group’s plan to promote domestic violence against women may have backfired. Members of the Cambridge University Student Union Women’s Campaign affixed stickers to Chris Brown’s fifth studio album, Fortune, at a HMV store in England. The stickers read: “WARNING: Do not buy this album! This man beats women.”

The domestic abuse statement stems from Brown’s conviction for felony assault on his ex-girlfriend Rihanna in 2009.

But the worldwide news coverage of the British student group’s protest resulted in increased sales for Brown’s Fortune CDs in Europe, MSN reports.

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The guy who hugged Obama says his pizza shop is being boycotted

Scott Van Duzer, 46, of Port St. Lucie, Florida, made headlines when he power lifted President Obama off his feet during a campaign stop on Sunday. Van Duzer, who owns the Big Apple Pizza & Pasta Restaurant in Fort Pierce, Fla., says angry residents are threatening to boycott his pizza shop after he hugged the president during the campaign stop.

“People are saying a lot of bad things and boycotting my restaurant,” Van Duzer told POLITICO.com. “There’s no middle line anymore, and that’s exactly what’s wrong with our country right now.”

By now you’ve all seen the photo of the Republican pizzeria owner bear hugging Mr. Obama. The first thing I thought when I saw the picture was where are the Secret Service? If the photo had not been staged Secret Service agents would’ve beat him worse than Chris Brown beat Rihanna.

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