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jwisser:

politicallyreligious:

 

It’s scary to think that a person who believes gay kids deserve suicide has a position of power within a school district. But sure enough, Clint McCance is a school board member at Midland School District in Arkansas. And he has some absolutely troubling and disturbing views when it comes to homosexuality, according to HRC Backstory.

McCance took to his Facebook page last week, to blast what became known as Spirit Day, a day where all around the country, people wore the color purple to remember those LGBT students who were victims of bullying or suicide. For McCance, this was nothing more than a day of honoring “sin.”

“Seriously they want me to wear purple because five queers committed suicide. The only way I’m wearin’ it for them is if they all commit suicide,” McCance said, in one of the most ugly outbursts in recent memory. “I can’t believe the people of this world have gotten this stupid. We are honoring the fact that they sinned and killed themselves because of their sin.”

It merits repeating once again that McCance, as a school board member in the Midland School District, is in a position of power where he helps set the education policy for students in the district. It should be more than alarming to administrators that McCance took to his Facebook page to suggest that all gay kids should commit suicide.

But alas, McCance didn’t stop there. He started to engage his Facebook followers with even more homophobic rhetoric.

“Being a fag doesn’t give you the right to ruin the rest of our lives. If you get easily offended by being called a fag then don’t tell anyone you are a fag. Keep that shit to yourself,” McCance wrote. “It pisses me off though that we make a special purple fag day for them. I like that fags cant procreate. I also enjoy the fact that they often give each other aids and die.”

Let’s repeat this once again: this is a school board member. Someone charged with upholding the Midland School District’s mission of “making a difference” in the lives of students. And his reaction to the recent spate of anti-gay bullying and LGBT students who have committed suicide? To release a diatribe so vile, it makes the Westboro Baptist Church look like Miss Manners.

I generally dislike the idea of intentionally taking over a school board. It is usually a positive thing for syllabi to be set by a diverse group of individuals; students benefit by experiencing a curriculum devoid of any systematic bias, and society benefits by promising itself a new generation of critical thinkers.

With that said, I think perhaps its time for a progressive takeover of the education system throughout the United States. This kind of outspoken hate on the part of someone who acts as a parent—that is, in loco parentis—to thousands of children is not acceptable. It creates an unsafe and fundamentally un-American learning environment.

That is horrible and truly frightening. No wonder we have kids bullying their peers to the point that the victims turn to suicide.

It is one thing to disagree with homosexuality and something else completely to be so blatantly cruel and hateful to other human beings.