In yet another exception of those good ol’ Red State family values, parents in Nebraska are rushing to abandon their children, some as old as 17, at hospitals before the state legislature has the chance to close the loophole in the state’s recently passed Safe Haven law that allows kids of any age to be abandoned legally:

To the state’s surprise and embarrassment, more than half of the 33 children legally abandoned under the safe-haven law since it took effect in mid-July have been teenagers.

But state officials may have inadvertently made things worse with their hesitant response to the problem: The number of drop-offs has almost tripled to about three a week since Gov. Dave Heineman announced on Oct. 29 that lawmakers would rewrite the law.

With legislators set to convene on Friday, weary parents like the Lincoln mother have been racing to drop off their children while they still can.

On Thursday, authorities searched for a 17-year-old girl who fled an Omaha hospital as her mother tried to abandon her. Her 14-year-old brother was taken into state custody, health officials said.

But hey, at least they aren’t letting those fucking faggots marry each other and fuck up the sacred sanctity of family!

Besides being famous for being the brother of Miley Cyrus and the son of Billy Ray Cyrus, Trace Cyrus is also known for being in that band Metro Station. Well, now he’s REALLY starting to get famous on PerezHilton.com for sending Myspace tranny and Video Matt’s arch nemesis Jeffree Star a bunch of laughably threatening text messages:

MySpace celeb Jeffree Star reveals exclusively to PerezHilton.com that he is receiving threats from Miley Cyrus’ brother, Metro Station lead singer Trace Cyrus.

A little background, first.

Star is/was best friends with Trace’s girlfriend, some chick named Hanna Beth. Well, she and Jeffree have just had a falling out.

As web celebs are prone to do, Star took to the Internets to air his beef. And, amongst the allegations he made in his MySpace bulletin to all his friends: that he had been there for Hanna Beth when she was going through hard times, that he’s been a shoulder to cry on when her boyfriend repeatedly abuses drugs.

Well, needless to say, Trace Cyrus was NOT happy about that.

Star claims Miley’s bro has been sending him harassing text messages, pictures of which we’ve obtained below.

They say some pretty ugly stuff!

Jeffree tells us he plans on contacting the authorities