Maybe this time...

BTL EDITORIAL

Maybe it will happen this time. Maybe the new state government installed in Lansing in January 2011 will pass anti-bullying legislation. Maybe they will listen this time to the young people who have endured bullying at their schools, the ones who quit school to get away from the pressure, and the parents and friends of young people who could not take it any more and ended their young lives.

Michigan is only one of five states with no anti-bullying legislation of some sort - a dismal reflection of the anti-LGBT environment that has dominated Lansing for years. The four other states - Hawaii, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana - have a combined population …