School teacher battles anti-gay talk radio host
A Des Moines, Iowa, local talk-radio host calling high school children "perverts" and"sodomites" and who degrades immigrants and gays is finally getting his just desserts. Jan Mickelson has met his match in Heidi Bagg, an elementary school counselor. Bagg began monitoring Mickelson's show 12 years ago for a committee of the Iowa Civil Rights Commission and her time has come to stand up to hate, organizing a boycott of sponsors of his WHO radio show. It's in keeping with what she counsels her students at school, says Bagg: "I talk to kids about standing up to bullies." Des Moines Register
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