Clint McCance: Douchebag!
Openly gay (and married) George (‘Mr Sulu’) Takei calls out former Arkansas School Board supervisor Clint McCance on behalf of the Trevor Project. Enjoy.
School Board Homophobe Resigns
The condemnation has done the trick and arch homophobe Clint McCance has resigned. Good. Someone like him should have no contact with children full stop, let alone those in education. I obviously don’t support the death threats he’s received (assuming he wasn’t lying about those), but it’s great that he realises there are consequences to him personally for his bigotry. What a complete monster.
Delightfully Dr Phil took to CNN afterwards to attack McCance for his thoroughly insincere apology:
Gay Students ‘Should Get AIDS and Die’
That’s what a school board member in Arkansas thinks:
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.“
Staggering. Wherever you are please sign this petition to get this homophobic bastard fired. Terrifyingly that may be difficult to achieve though:
“In Arkansas law, the only way to recall a school board member is over a felony [committed by him or her] or absentee issues,” said Julie Johnson Thompson, the director of communications for the Arkansas Department of Education in Little Rock.
