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The Gist: Why You Must Vote
Gay advocate Michelangelo Signorile tells the GLBT community why they must vote against the GOP and Tea Party
The Gist: Why You Must Vote
The Gist: Why You Must Vote
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Fury at McCance remarks grows
Image via WikipediaMore than 23,000 people have joined an online campaign calling for the firing of an Arkansas school board member who is purported to have made anti-gay remarks on his Facebook page.
The effort seeking the dismissal of Midland School District board member Clint McCance centers on posts visible on a screenshot of a page that appears to be McCance's online profile. The image is posted on a Facebook group calling for McCance's firing that had 14,300 supporters as of 11:30 a.m.
The Advocate, a magazine that reports about gay issues, first reported about the posting on its website. The Facebook page has been disabled, but The Advocate posted a screen grab of the alleged postings that it says someone forwarded to it.
"Seriously they want me to wear purple because five queers committed suicide," the posting reads in the screenshot. "The only way im wearin it for the 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."
No profile bearing McCance's name is publicly available on Facebook and a man who answered a phone associated with one of McCance's businesses Wednesday would not verify that he wrote the postings.
"I can't comment at this time, I've got to talk to my attorney," said the man, who hung up when asked if he was McCance.
No one answered the same number Wednesday afternoon, but the message identified it as McCance's.
Other postings shown in the same screenshot use an offensive term for homosexuals and state the writer enjoys "the fact that they often give each other aids and die" and would disown his children if they were gay.
A message left with Midland Superintendent Dean Stanley was not returned Wednesday morning. A school official said she believed he was out of the office until Friday.
In a statement, the Midland School District distanced itself from McCance’s comments and said the school does not “support or condone” what was written on the Facebook page.
“Mr. McCance was not acting as an agent of the school board, but as a private citizen when this comment was posted. This post does not reflect the thoughts of the board or administration of the Midland School District,” the statement said. “The district strives to foster an environment that discourages all forms of bullying and an environment that encourages a safe and productive educational climate of all of our students.”
The Arkansas Department of Education condemned the remarks in a post on its own Facebook page, saying it was "dismayed to see that a school board official would post something of this insensitive nature on a public forum like Facebook." Read more @ http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2010/oct/27/furor-grows-over-purported-anti-gay-remarks-school/
NBC Affiliate: “Will Acceptance Of Homosexuality Be The Fall Of America?”
NBC Affiliate: “Will Acceptance Of Homosexuality Be The Fall Of America?”
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HuffPost Election News
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Huffington Post Election Analysis:
Is it 1994 or 1946?
"For all the talk of Republican resurgence, the comeback turned out to be little more than the death throes of a party destined to spend decades in the wilderness.
Fast forward to 2010."
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