But it's not why you might think, you pervert!

A few days ago President Obama was reelected, and he's already proving to the world that America made the right choice by giving him a second term. All you have to do is watch this video of the teary-eyed president thanking his campaign staff to know that he is arguably the most compassionate, sensitive and beautiful man the United States has ever had the good fortune of calling their leader. Sorry, George W Bush . . .

A group of more than 20 students attending Celina High School in Celina, Ohio, were forced to remove their pro-gay T-shirts and were threatened with suspension. The T-shirts were handmade and featured a rainbow with the words "I support" and "Express yourself."

The group decided to wear the shirts in supportive solidarity of two schoolmates who were previously forced to remove their shirts, which said "Lesbian 1" and "Lesbian 2."

The school's superintendent, Jesse Steiner, tells US News that the students would be told to remove the shirts only if they were "disruptive" and causing "undue attention to themselves." But some students are calling bullshit on Steiner's explanation, saying that students who wear other political shirts, like pro-Obama or pro-Romney tees, face no repercussions. Members of the school's pro-life club, Students for Life, are not only allowed, but encouraged, to wear T-shirts with fetuses on them!

So to summarize: rainbows no, embryos yes . . . 

No word if Double Standards 101 is before or after Calculus on Celina High's timetable. 

The hate-crime laws in North Carolina do not cover sexual orientation, so even if the attackers of a gay couple from Asheville are arrested, they can be charged only with assault, despite claims by the victims that the crime was anti-gay motivated. 

Dustin Martin and Mark Little were leaving Scandals, a bar in Asheville, when, they claim, they were followed by a vehicle of girls who tauntingly called them "faggots" 15 to 20 times. When Martin told them to fuck off, a guy, who the couple hadn't seen inside the car, jumped out and attacked them. Martin was beaten first, getting hit in the head and collarbone. When Little tried to protect him, he was punched in the face. They were left bloodied and bruised but with no major injuries.

I've always felt in my gut that if the Obama administration were to get a second term, the president would take a more proactive stance on gay marriage beyond saying that his views are "evolving." I believe that Vice-President Joe Biden's recent interview on Meet the Press is an indication of that. 

I think it's Barack Obama's responsibility, as a black man, to his people and their history to defend gay rights. Gay marriage is a civil rights issue, which the African-American community should be able to relate to and sympathize with more than any other minority. It's shameful that so many choose to use their religion as an excuse to deprive all Americans of the same rights. President Obama supporting the gay struggle for equality would create an unprecedented wave of change amongst the black community and their views on homosexuality. I was living in Harlem, New York City, in 2008 when Obama was voted into office. Walking down 125th St, every step you could buy an Obama T-shirt, calendar, poster, flag, effigy, bobble-head, watch, painting . . . You name it. As if overnight, he became the most influential black man of the 21st century, and millions of people turn to him to know the difference between right and wrong. Let's hope that the man himself knows.

Joe Biden on whether his views on gay marriage have evolved:

I just think that the good news is that as more and more Americans come to understand what this is all about is a simple proposition: Who do you love? Who do you love? And will you be loyal to the person you love? That’s what people are finding out is what all marriages at their root are about. Whether they’re marriages of lesbians or gay men or heterosexuals.

On whether he is comfortable with gay marriage:

I . . . look, I am vice-president of the United States of America. The president sets the policy. I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don’t see much of a distinction beyond that.

Darnell Young, left, with his mother, Chelisa Grimes, and his twin brother, Darrell. 

Darnell "Dynasty" Young is an openly gay 17-year-old boy attending Arsenal Technical High School in Indianapolis. The Indianapolis Star reports that since transferring to the school, Young has been the victim of homophobic bullying. His classmates have followed him home from the bus stop, threatened to beat him up, and thrown rocks at him. 

His mother, Chelisa Grimes, was worried about her son and contacted the school but claims, "They said the problem was he was too flamboyant." Young likes to go to school wearing his mother's accessories, including her purses and rings. "I had to do something," Grimes said. "They were throwing rocks at him." So she gave her son a taser gun for protection. When Young was cornered at school by his bullies, he shot the taser gun into the air to scare them off. It worked, but it wasn't long before school security intervened, and Young now faces expulsion.

"All day I'd be on my guard," Young said about his bullying. "It never got better; it always got worse." It got so bad that after rumours started circulating that he performed sex acts in the school bathroom, he considered suicide but in the end realized, "God gave me this life. I love life. I'm trying to be strong."

School principal Larry Yarrell thinks the bullying would stop if Young "toned down" his physical appearance.

"If you wear female apparel, then kids are kids and they're going to say whatever it is that they want to say," Yarrell said about Young's bullying. "Because you want to be different and because you choose to wear female apparel, it may happen. In the idealistic society, it shouldn't matter. People should be able to wear what they want to wear." 

With a principal like Yarrell, the students at Arsenal Tech don't have much hope. He's an educator who needs to be educated -- Young isn't choosing to be different, he simply is.  

A decision about whether he should be expelled will be reached within the next few days.