What Would Jesus Do?

This, apparently:

Every morning, Brittany Geldert stepped off the bus and bolted through the double doors of Fred Moore Middle School, her nerves already on high alert, bracing for the inevitable.

"Dyke."

Pretending not to hear, Brittany would walk briskly to her locker, past the sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders who loitered in menacing packs.

"Whore."

Like many 13-year-olds, Brittany knew seventh grade was a living hell. But what she didn't know was that she was caught in the crossfire of a culture war being waged by local evangelicals inspired by their high-profile congressional representative Michele Bachmann, who graduated from Anoka High School and, until recently, was a member of one of the most conservative churches in the area. When Christian activists who considered gays an abomination forced a measure through the school board forbidding the discussion of homosexuality in the district's public schools, kids like Brittany were unknowingly thrust into the heart of a clash that was about to become intertwined with tragedy.

Read the whole thing. No, really, read the whole damn thing and get yourself a big snootful of compassionate Christian love. Behold the purveyors of Christianity, who apparently have no problem squaring their belief in a man who preached peace, love and forgiveness with their actions that create an atmosphere of terror and oppression where it's OK to demonize children who happen to be different.

What Would Jesus Do, indeed.