Midland School District Vice President Clint McCance in Arkansas has shocked the school district by responding to a campaign to end bullying of gay students with a hateful (if not gleeful) Facebook commentary on gay teen suicides. Using the terms “queer” and “fag,” McCance promised to disown his own children if they are gay and refused to mourn the death of “sinners.”
McCance appeared to relish “the fact that [gay people] often give each other AIDS and die.” His diatribe was in response to the “Spirit Day” campaign that recognizes the problem of bullying of gay students and encourages students to wear purple to remember young people who committed suicide because of such bullying. McCance would have nothing of it, writing “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.”
He then later wrote this little loving note for his children: ““I would disown my kids they were gay. They will not be welcome at my home or in my vicinity. I will absolutely run them off. Of course my kids will know better. My kids will have solid christian beliefs. See it infects everyone.” Would not be welcomed “in his vicinity”? What does that mean? He actually does not have the authority to “run off” gay people from his vicinity.
Then he shared his personal celebration of the death of gay people:
No because being a fag doesnt give you the right to ruin the rest of our lives. If you get easily offended by being called a fag then dont tell anyone you are a fag. Keep that shit to yourself. I dont care how people decide to live their lives. They dont bother me if they keep it to thereselves. 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. If you arent against it, you might as well be for it.”
Of course, “enjoying” the fact that some people have a long suffering illness and die is an admission of mental illness. Of course, what is most striking is how McCance uses religion to justify such hate. His pride in his instilling his beliefs in his children is a chilling thought of prejudice being passed down as a prized family legacy.
Source: CNN
Jonathan Turley
I’m betting that one of those children of his will disappoint him. And that child will be better off for being disowned by this narrow-minded guy.
Hoyagirl, Well said.
“In my work as a Wisconsin Registered Professional Engineer, licensed to hold paramount the public safety while working in areas of my professional competence without the use of deception, I observe that the Anglo-American Adversarial System of Law and Jurisprudence is actually an unconstitutional religious establishment, in that it uses authoritarian tyranny and coercion to force people to believe in an understanding of human nature which is a neurologically absurd tragedy.”
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In my work as a Virginia attorney licensed to hold paramount the public safety, I find Hooke’s Law for linear elastic materials to be useless and thus unconstitutional from an engineering standpoint if used to analyze the stress-strain relationship in the theory of elasticity. This statement makes about as much sense as your opining on the entire constitutionality of American jurisprudence. Yours is the most purplish bull**it I’ve ever read. Those who try too hard to be articulate rarely are deemed to be so.
Neurologically absurd tragedy? Man, you said it.
J. Brian Harris, Ph.D., P.E. –
Please check your meds. You are not doin’ them rite.
Gyges: “No see, the universe is a zero sum game: In order for God to love one group he has to hate another.”
That argument is just precious.
Delusional projection of self-imago? Methinks it is biologically impossible to hate anyone else without first having been traumatized into hatred of self.
As I have written elsewhere, as a function of human brain biology, religion is the name of the brain activity relating to what is not understood; whereas science is the name of the brain activity relating to what is understood.
The human social tragedy of religious dogma is that dogmatic people claim mistakenly claim to have actual understanding of what is not actually understood. This sincere delusional aspect of human society allows every sort of abuse I have yet encountered to seemingly flourish, regardless of the millions of people murdered in for the sake of mistaken misunderstandings.
Oops. I am attempting to post this on a legal blog. In my work as a Wisconsin Registered Professional Engineer, licensed to hold paramount the public safety while working in areas of my professional competence without the use of deception, I observe that the Anglo-American Adversarial System of Law and Jurisprudence is actually an unconstitutional religious establishment, in that it uses authoritarian tyranny and coercion to force people to believe in an understanding of human nature which is a neurologically absurd tragedy.
There are no avoidable mistakes (or accidents or events), thousands of years of human claims to the contrary, because it is only possible to know for sure whether a mistake (or accident or event) was avoidable if it was actually avoided; so all actually avoidable mistakes are actually avoided, and the only mistakes (or accidents or events) which actually happen are the ones which, when they happened, were actually unavoidable.
My research findings will be forever refuted when one person truthfully describes one mistake (or accident or event) which actually happened and also truthfully describes any achievable process through which the mistake (or accident or event) which actually happened could actually have been avoided. The belief that any mistake (or accident or event) which has actually happened could have happened differently is a consequence of the dissociative brain trauma of the indoctrination of social conventionality to the effect that a child, having been told what to do or told what not to do, and having not done as told or having done as not told, was being defiant of self-purported “authority.”
Stanley Milgram’s “Obedience to Authority” might wisely be renamed to “Obedience to Deceptive Authoritarian Traumatic Tyranny.”
One mistake actually made, how it could actually have been avoided, and the nearly 70 years I have invested in learning about “Human Error” (James Reason), “Human Destructiveness” (Anthony Storr) and the utter madness of reciprocal retaliation, all my life’s work, will be worthless rubbish. Real science seems to get no stronger than it is in the bioengineering work I do. The work refutes a belief seemingly traceable far back into human pre-history, requires only one refuting example when human society claims that there are countless such refuting examples, and yet not one person has ever been able to even suggest where I might look for any truthful example of the conventional adversarial view being scientifically valid.
Shame is a brain-biology response to the catastrophically mind-shattering traditional belief in guilt, guilt is a delusion. The terrible twos, or infant-child transition, or infant-child discontinuity is of the destruction of actual truthfulness which is, albeit naively, inborn in every person, and is almost always partly to completely destroyed through the errors of human social tradition in which time-corrupted learning (Robert Scaer) is coercively infused through the work of the tragedy of the commons.
One mistake actually made, how it actually could have been avoided, both truthfully told, and I will allow that the Anglo-American Adversarial System is not an unconstitutional religious establishment. Why has, for more than 70 years thus far, not one person been able to truthfully tell of even one real event which would demolish the scientific validity of my life-work?
Suppose, to concoct a simple illustration, I find myself faced with a dichotomous decision, whether to take “Path A” or “Path B.” Suppose I take A and, after three minutes, find that A worked out very badly and, looking over at B with my imagination, it is clear that, three minutes after taking A, B would have been much better. Suppose (hypotheticals can accomplish the impossible, and, perhaps also the possible?) that every effect of my having taken A are forever completed after three minutes, so I could supposedly get a perfect score for A by measuring, absolutely without error, every effect of A for those three minutes.
To learn whether A or B was the better choice, I need to return to the point of decision and take path B. Suppose (using the miraculous properties e of the hypothetical) I indeed do find that, at three minutes, B is vastly better, only B is not completed. Suppose I continue along path B until it is completed (my having taken path B will never again have any effect) and path B becomes completed after three million years, whereupon, path B turns out to be horribly worse than A would have been.
I find that this “hypothetical” utterly destroys any scientific validity which can be assigned to the conventional Anglo-American Adversarial System because:
1. It is impossible to actually measure anything absolutely without error, thus it is impossible to get an errorless score for either path A or path B.
2. I find no hint of evidence that I can, in the ordinary sense, live much as I am for three million years.
3. If I were able to accomplish both (1.) and (2.), and were to take the perfect scores back to the point of deciding which path to take, I am not at the point of that decision because I did not have the score for either or both of path A or path B.
4. Absent any way to evalutate, in advance, the outcome of either path A or path B, the commonplace judgments of the Anglo-American Adversarial System are delusions, because they require that what is actually impossible actually happen.
5. The Anglo-American Adversarial System is actually a delusional religious establishment of the sort absolutely prohibited by any intelligible interpretation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, because the Anglo-American Adversarial System has dogmas and doctrines which are regarded as effectively infallible, and which require a properly indoctrinated priesthood (those admitted to the bar) in order to terrify people into dishonest compliance with the deceptive tyranny of the time-corrupted learning methodology of applying knowledge and understanding only acquired during the process of an event to the state of knowledge and understanding which existed prior to the event. I can imagine no possible greater dishonesty, no greater form of child abuse, than the teaching of a child to be self-dishonest by terrifying a child into believing that being told about something is the same as the child having done the something.
6. The Anglo-American Adversarial System is a religious establishment founded on and grounded in mistaken understanding of the biology of learning.
7. Guilt is a brain-damaging delusion, and shame is the brain response to said damage. Were guilt not a delusion, surely someone (I have asked thousands of people in person, and put my doctoral dissertation on the Internet in my effort to find just one refuting actual example contrary to my research findings) would have been able to tell me of one actual example of a mistake actually made which could actually have been avoided. That has not happened.
8. Quod Erat Demonstrandum? (Unless someone can truthfully refute my finding that no event which ever actually happened could actually have happened differently than it actually happened.
9. If anyone can do so, please refute the finding of my research, by truthfully describing one mistake (or event) which actually happened and truthfully describing how that mistake 9or event) could have happened differently without using what happened during the event as the evidence that it could have happened differently, as what happened during the event did not happen prior to the event, and therefore, what happened during the event did not exist prior to the event, and was not available prior to the event in such a way as to allow avoiding the event.
10. Quod Erat Demonstrandum. Absoluta sententia expositore non indiget. Actus Dei nemini facit injuriam. Actus me invito factus non est meus actus. Affirmanti, non neganti, incumbit probatio. Veritas nihil veretur nisi abscondi. Veritas est justitiae mater.
More such symptoms or outbreaks are in our future unfortunately.
It is really becoming epidemic.
Propaganda and deceit rob a populace of the touch with reality eventually.
http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2010/10/etiology-of-social-dementia-2.html
No see, the universe is a zero sum game: In order for God to love one group he has to hate another.
On the downside, he’s oh so fired. On the upside, he has an excellent career opportunity ahead of him in Westboro!
(As for trying to blame the Bible for that rant, I have just this to say: “Christianity: You’re Doing It Wrong.”)
Those who think being politically correct is a burden too hard to carry, we offer Mr McCance as the poster child. I see no differnce between this moronic, hateful, hurtful statement and Juan Williams’ equally hateful and potentially harmful recent statements.
What is truly tragic about this kind of public hate (and this man is far from the only one broadcasting his feelings that LGBT kids should go right ahead and kill themselves) is that these very same children will inevitably hear this.
No matter what you think about anyone’s lifestyle choice, I would think we could all get behind the idea that children killing themselves is a universally bad thing.
It chills me to think that this is exactly why these poor kids think there is no alternative available to them; that the world hates them so much, they are better off dead.
Mr. McCance and everyone like him have these kids’ blood on their hands.
culheath
1, October 28, 2010 at 8:37 am
Me thinks McCancer doth protest too much.
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Bingo!
To paraphrase Mark Twain, “I want to be in [Arkansas] when the end of the world comes, because it’s always 20 years behinds.” Thanks to McCance for proving him right.
I’ve said this once and I’ll say this again and it has been proven lately,the ones who scream the loudest are the ones you really have to watch.
Me thinks McCancer doth protest too much.
In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made School Boards.- Mark Twain
“”Of course my kids will know better. My kids will have solid christian beliefs ….’ Of course, what is most striking is how McCance uses religion to justify such hate. His pride in his instilling his beliefs in his children is a chilling thought of prejudice being passed down as a prized family legacy.”
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Striking perhaps, but no surprise to me. We always “know they are Christians by their love.”
Alice is correct. He simply made the mistake of feeling too comfortable.
And, get this bigoted, hateful person away from any position of power or influence over children.
I think these kinds of views are more common than we think, which is really scary. We should heed his words and know that hate and prejudice run deep .