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F.B. Page Asking Arkansas to Fire Bumbling Bigot Reaches 17k |
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Written by Jonathan Higbee |
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
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| Tags: arkansas, education, bigotry, idiocy, facebook, internets, clint mccance, d-bags |
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A Facebook page asking an Arkansas school district to fire an official has reached 17,000 supporters. Clint McCance, a school board member in Independence County, Arkansas, is under fire this week for a horrifically anti-gay Facebook statement he posted regarding last week's Spirit Day, reading, “Seriously they want me to wear purple because five queers committed suicide. 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 therselves because of their sin. REALLY PEOPLE.” [sic, and from an education professional, keep in mind!]
In response to the dangerous homophobia the education board member spewed, the Arkansas Department of Education says it does not have the authority to fire McCance.
It writes in a statement posted to its website:
The Arkansas Department of Education strongly condemns remarks or attitudes of this kind and is dismayed to see that a school board official would post something of this insensitive nature on a public forum like Facebook. Because Mr. McCance is an elected official, the department has no means of dealing with him directly. However, the department does have staff who investigate matters of bullying in schools and we will monitor and quickly respond to any bullying of students that may occur because of this, as we have with other civil rights issues in the past.
Still, the Facebook group calling for McCance's bigoted head continues to grow. You can join it here.
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This makes me sad that somewhere along the way this man was taught that it was alright to have this much blackness in his soul. I cannot believe something like that could come out of the mouth of a so called christian that follows a man that did good and loved everyone. And to top it off, he is around the impressionable youth, Gee I guess we know where the bullies come from.