[ti:Obama, Hillary Clinton Speak Out Against Anti-Gay Bullying]
[ar:Steve Ember]
[al: IN THE NEWS]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]This is IN THE NEWS
[00:05.26]in VOA Special English.
[00:07.84]President Obama and Secretary
[00:10.53]of State Hillary Clinton
[00:12.58]each released video messages
[00:14.57]this week
[00:15.92] on the problem of bullying.
[00:17.32]Both messages centered
[00:19.81]on abusive behavior
[00:21.36]toward homosexuals.
[00:23.45]BARACK OBAMA: "Like all of you,
[00:24.58]I was shocked and saddened
[00:25.84]by the deaths of several
[00:27.07]young people who were bullied
[00:28.17]and taunted for being gay,
[00:29.72]and who ultimately
[00:30.97]took their own lives.
[00:31.89]As a parent of two daughters,
[00:34.18]it breaks my heart.
[00:35.43]It's something that just
[00:37.18]shouldn't happen in this country.
[00:38.28]We've got to dispel the myth
[00:41.17]that bullying is just
[00:42.56]a normal rite of passage
[00:43.95]-- that it's some inevitable
[00:46.34]part of growing up. It's not."
[00:48.27]One recent victim
[00:50.03]was an eighteen-year old student
[00:52.16]at Rutgers University
[00:53.82]in New Jersey.
[00:55.35]Tyler Clementi was a first-year
[00:57.80]student and a promising musician.
[01:00.33]In late September he jumped
[01:02.87]to his death from a bridge
[01:04.66]over the Hudson River
[01:06.26]between New Jersey and New York.
[01:08.49]Three days earlier, his roommate
[01:11.39]had secretly used a webcam
[01:14.02]to broadcast live images of him
[01:17.36]in a sexual encounter
[01:19.36]with another man.
[01:20.79]Law enforcement officials
[01:22.88]have charged the roommate
[01:24.23]and another student
[01:25.57]with invasion of privacy.
[01:27.52]Last month, writer Dan Savage
[01:31.20]started the It Gets Better Project.
[01:34.42]The purpose is to help LGBT
[01:38.31]-- lesbian, gay,
[01:40.01]bisexual and transgender
[01:42.45]-- young people.
[01:44.04]President Obama recorded
[01:46.03]his message to show support
[01:48.22]for that project.
[01:49.55]BARACK OBAMA: "I don't know
[01:50.31]what it's like to be picked on
[01:52.30]for being gay.
[01:53.35]But I do know what it's like
[01:54.75]to grow up feeling that
[01:56.58]sometimes you don't belong.
[01:57.58]It's tough.
[01:59.23]And for a lot of kids,
[02:00.92]the sense of being alone
[02:02.51]or apart -- I know
[02:04.80]can just wear on you.
[02:05.80]And when you're teased or bullied,
[02:07.69]it can seem like somehow
[02:09.58]you brought it on yourself
[02:11.41]-- for being different,
[02:12.77]or for not fitting in
[02:13.96]with everybody else.
[02:14.91]But what I want to say is this.
[02:16.41]You are not alone."
[02:17.94]Secretary Clinton released
[02:20.13]her message earlier in the week.
[02:22.38]HILLARY CLINTON: "Like
[02:23.18]millions of Americans,
[02:24.03]I was terribly saddened
[02:25.52]to learn of the recent suicides
[02:27.32]of several teenagers
[02:28.55]across our country
[02:29.70]after being bullied
[02:31.25]because they were gay
[02:32.33]or because people thought
[02:34.23]they were gay.
[02:35.08]Children are particularly
[02:36.83]vulnerable to the hurt
[02:38.36]caused by discrimination
[02:40.71]and prejudice and we have
[02:42.44]lost many young people
[02:43.80]over the years to suicide.
[02:45.79]These most recent deaths
[02:47.74]are a reminder that all Americans
[02:49.57]have to work harder
[02:50.73]to overcome bigotry and hatred."
[02:53.41]She said opportunities
[02:55.56]will only increase:
[02:57.55]HILLARY CLINTON: "Just think
[02:58.39]of the progress made by women
[03:06.08]just during my lifetime by women,
[03:08.08]or ethnic, racial and
[03:10.90]religious minorities
[03:12.16]over the course of our history
[03:14.05]¡ª and by gays and lesbians,
[03:16.60]many of whom are now free
[03:18.82]to live their lives
[03:20.04]openly and proudly."
[03:21.63]The videos come as the government
[03:23.86]and the courts try to
[03:25.35]settle the future of
[03:26.91]the military policy known as
[03:29.40]"Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
[03:31.58]Under federal law, gays
[03:34.11]and lesbians can serve,
[03:35.96]but not openly.
[03:37.82]No one may ask about a person's
[03:40.60]sexual orientation.
[03:42.65]But service members
[03:44.05]can be discharged
[03:45.48]if they are found to be homosexual.
[03:48.76]Congress and President Bill Clinton
[03:51.41]approved the law
[03:52.75]in nineteen ninety-three
[03:54.84]as a compromise.
[03:56.43]Now a federal judge in California
[03:59.37]has ruled it unconstitutional.
[04:02.76]Last week she ordered a halt
[04:05.49]to all dismissals
[04:07.64]of gay service members.
[04:09.23]But on Wednesday an appeals court
[04:12.75]let the administration
[04:14.14]temporarily continue the policy.
[04:16.89]President Obama says
[04:19.53]he wants to end the policy,
[04:21.82]but he wants Congress
[04:23.80]and not the courts to do it.
[04:26.84]In July, the Defense Department
[04:29.73]e-mailed a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
[04:33.06]opinion survey to four hundred
[04:35.70]thousand service members.
[04:38.33]Defense Secretary Robert Gates
[04:40.72]expects the results
[04:42.23]by December first.
[04:44.52]And that's IN THE NEWS
[04:46.75]in VOA Special English.
[04:50.23]I'm Steve Ember.
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