10/28/10 07:24 - ID#53021

Clint McCance is a douchebag!

Once again Arkansas and the deep south for that matter has proven to me that they ought to be a separate country from the one that I live in. Clint McCance (cmccance@midlandschools.org) Midland School District Vice President in Midland Arkansas states the following on his Facebook page in response to a GLAAD sponsored "Spirit Day" event in which supporters wear purple:

"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 can't 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."]

Ok, In all fairness to the rest of Arkansas I'm sure you find this guy to be as much of an asshole as I do. Not only does he have severe mental issues, but the guy make up his own words! How does someone like this get elected to the school board? Not only do I feel bad for the students at that district, I worry about his children who undoubtedly have much working against them considering who their father is. I really hope the rest of the 253 people in Midland Arkansas do all in their power to remove him from the board.

uncutsaniflush writes at 09:14:29 10/28/10 - Comment #59066: I think that there are frightening (to me, at least) parallels between what is happening in the U.S. right now that the Wiemar Republic a few years before Hitler came to power. Many people are frightened that their traditional values are being discarded and they will grasp at anything that gives lip service to their traditions and values. If you think about it, isn't the tea party movement all about "Kinder, KÃ¼che, Kirche" ("Children, Kitchen, Church" in German)

As society changes there is often a reactionary backlash. With modern media and technology, both information and hate can spread quickly around the country and around the globe.

As homosexuality, itself, comes out of the closet, I think were are in the midst of an anti-gay backlash. 40 years ago a farmer in the rural U.S. South probably didn't hear much, if anything, about gays and lesbians. So the farmer wouldn't have thought of them as threats to his way of life. But nowadays, news and entertainment about gays and lesbians is commonplace. Homophobes are frightened by the fact that they live on the same planet as homosexuals. For some reason, they are threatened by the mere existence of homosexuals. And fear breeds violence and hate. I hope someday that there will be no homophobia but I think at the moment it is on the rise in certain segments of our country.

metalpeter writes at 05:04:18 10/28/10 - Comment #59064: They aren't going to be in a museum any time soon!, Sorry. Most people aren't this bad as this guy. That being said there is a very large % of people who do think this way. If one truly believes that homosexuality is a sin then it follows that anything that comes from it is the sinners fault. If that is you mind set of thinking that killing your self is a sin then why should that be celebrated? It shouldn't... I don't agree with this guy but I get the thinking pattern. This pattern is so often linked from "The Church".

I'll give a real life example of some of my thinking to show the same kind of thinking. You have a drug addiction or are just a thug and break into a house to steal stuff. Someone is home they have a right to shoot you (legally unless you are in no danger or they are leaving this is ok) or stab you to protect them selves and there home and their family (even if it just the dog they love). Once you decide it is ok to hurt someone else like that any thing that happens to you is fair game. You run down the steps and trip over broken sidewalk and smash your head open to bad you got what you deserve....

I'm not saying I agree with the guy, cause I don't at all. What I am saying is at first it looks crazy, but it isn't at all..In terms of how one thinks.....

jason writes at 10:08:56 10/28/10 - Comment #59060: I don't get mad at these people, even though it's easy to be mad. I am satisfied that people like that are going to be museum relics in our lifetime. We are going to bring our kids to a museum, point to this asshole and say "Can you believe people like this used to exist?"