Educator does not equal educated
Principal’s outing of gay student roils Fla. town
PONCE DE LEON, Fla. – When a high school senior told her principal that students were taunting her for being a lesbian, he told her homosexuality is wrong, outed her to her parents and ordered her to stay away from children.
He suspended some of her friends who expressed their outrage by wearing gay pride T-shirts and buttons at Ponce de Leon High School, according to court records. And he asked dozens of students whether they were gay or associated with gay students.
The American Civil Liberties Union successfully sued the district on behalf of a girl who protested against Principal David Davis, and a federal judge reprimanded Davis for conducting a “witch hunt” against gays. Davis was demoted, and school employees must now go through sensitivity training.
And despite all that, many in this conservative Panhandle community still wonder what, exactly, Davis did wrong.
“We are a small, rural district in the Bible Belt with strong Christian beliefs and feel like homosexuality is wrong,” said Steve Griffin, Holmes County’s school superintendent, who keeps a Bible on his desk and framed Scriptures on his office walls.
Many in the community support Davis and feel outsiders are forcing their beliefs on them. Griffin, who kicked Davis out of the principal’s office but allowed him to continue teaching at the school, said high schoolers here aren’t exposed to the same things as kids in Atlanta or Chicago. (Source)
So they think outsiders (educated members of a Constitutional republic) are forcing their beliefs on them (ignorant, delusional bigots). Wow, tough shit. If you want to believe like fundamental Christians or Muslims perhaps America isn’t the country for you. See, here we have the rule of law (not rule by holy decree) and we encourage respect for all our citizens, not just the ones who happen to agree with you.
Incidents like this clearly illustrate what America will look like should we ever be careless enough to allow the U.S. to be perverted into a theocracy by the intolerant, hateful Jewish zombie worshipers.