Arkansas school board member wants "fags" to kill themselves
 

Utterly horrified, disgusted and dismayed. The message makes me want to vomit, but additionally, a school board member who uses the word "thereselves"? Article text is as follows, with a link at the bottom:

An Arkansas School Board member recently launched an inflammatory anti-gay tirade on Facebook that ran the gamut from basic bigoted slurs, to encouraging "fags" to commit suicide and announcing that he'd disown his own children if they were gay.


In response to a a massively popular Facebook initiative to show support for gay youths in response to a recent wave of suicides, Clint McCance, a board member in the Midland school district in northern Arkansas, wrote this screed, provided to the Advocate:

"Seriously they want me to wear purple because five queers killed themselves. The only way im wearin it for them is if they all commit suicide. I cant believe the people of this world have gotten this stupid. We are honoring the fact that they sinned and killed thereselves because of their sin. REALLY PEOPLE."

The reaction to the post was both positive and negative, the Advocate reports. McCance responded to one detractor, saying:

"No because 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 dont tell anyone you are a fag. Keep that shit to yourself. I dont care how people decide to live their lives. They dont bother me if they keep it to thereselves. 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. If you arent against it, you might as well be for it."

After one commenter invoked McCance's Christianity and his willingness to seemingly talk hatefully about the families of other people, McCance wrote back:

"I would disown my kids they were gay. They will not be welcome at my home or in my vicinity. I will absolutely run them off. Of course my kids will know better. My kids will have solid christian beliefs. See it infects everyone."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/1..._n_774656.html

Disgusting.

Gotta love Arkansas....

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Waited a while to use this one.

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This is a school board member? Wow.

There are no words, no words for this "man".

A school board member from Midland, Arkansas.

I had to look up where it was...and it turns out it's in my current "metropolitan" area of Ft. Smith. And, I'm really good at Arkansas geography, especially due to high school football. When I first heard of this, I thought they were referring to Midland, Texas.

I mean, it sucks and he should never have said that but the fact that he's a school board member is to be taken with a grain of salt. A dog could be a school board member there. They only have 250-odd people in the town.

Please don't blame Arkansas. It's a great place to live, with many great people.

Paladino lives in New York and is anti-gay. I don't blame all of New York for 1 person.

Vocal prejudice is definitely acceptable as long as it isn't directed at certain minority groups, right?

First Amendment!
Freedom of Speech!
Politically correct!
Opinions are opinions!
Where's the bigotry?!
Liberal yingyang twins!

Wow. Way to misinterpret a post. When did I say or imply that?

Wasn't directed at you, sorry.

It was one Arkansan speaking to another, regarding someone else's prejudices.

No problem. Sorry for my reaction. I do have problems with how Arkansans get depicted and this moron doesn't help.

It's like how I hate when a movie is set in the South and someone walks into the sheriff's office. There's no airconditioning and one of those sorry old time fans that just goes back and forth.

We have airconditioning. We don't say "Aw, shucks" (well, not a lot of us). And, we aren't all prejudiced white trash.

Buahahahahaha

It's his First Amendment right to subject himself to international ridicule. My guess is that in a 250-person burg in northwest Arkansas, this should be good enough to get him elected mayor. Maybe even to the state legislature.