SOMERSET, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has signed an anti-bullying bill that advocates say is the toughest of its kind in the nation, giving a sense of progress to the people attending a conference dedicated to preventing suicide by gay young people.
The "anti-bullying bill of rights" had been in the works for several months, but it picked up steam in the state Legislature after Tyler Clementi, an 18-year-old Rutgers University student, committed suicide in September. Clementi's roommate and a third Rutgers student were charged with using a webcam to spy on Clementi during his dorm-room liaison with a man days before the suicide.
Christie signed the law Wednesday, but did not announce it.
There was no major signing ceremony for this because if Christie decides to run for president in 2012 or 2016, he doesn't want there to be videotape of him doing ANYTHING for gay people.
Plus under any new bullying statue, shouldn't the first person prosecuted be Chris Christie himself.
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