Haywood principal resigns after anti-gay remarks

[brooklynite]

Source: The Leaf Chronicle

BROWNSVILLE, Tenn. (WTW) — A West Tennessee high school principal resigned on Thursday after the American Civil Liberties Union said the principal threatened to expel gay students who showed affection for someone of the same sex.

According to a news release from the ACLU, Haywood High School Principal Dorothy Bond also said that gay students were "not on God's path" and were "ruining their lives."

The published policies of the Haywood County schools list "physical contact" as a minor infraction. But students complained to the ACLU that during a Feb. 9 school assembly, Bond said that gay students showing affection could face 60-day suspensions, assignments to an alternative school or expulsion.

The ACLU also said Bond has incorporated prayers and proselytizing into school events and once told a lesbian student that she would go to hell.

Read more: http://www.theleafchronicle.com/usatoday/article/38702037?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE%7Cs

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Where's a Republican "Conscience Clause" when you need it?

[bullwinkle428]

1. K&R. Gee, I wonder why GLBT kids deal with so much depression.

[BigDemVoter]

2. Good F-ing Riddance

Used to be that this kind of behavior would be condoned & encouraged. I grew up in the South many years ago, and I remember how ugly it was. It is so encouraging to see not only this kind of anti-gay behavior stopped, but also the proselytizing which drove me about as crazy as the bigotry did. Perhaps the two go hand in hand (bigotry & fundamentalist Christianity?).

[alp227]

3. This PUBLIC SCHOOL administrator probably supports LOWER TAXES and busting teachers' unions too.

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Maybe the principal can find a better job at the private sector where she doesn't have to deal with those pesky gays. Like at Fox News?

[obamanut2012]

4. The principal is a she

Just FYI.

[alp227]

7. fixed, i didn't read the principal's name.

[krispos42]

5. Looks like homophobia by public officials ruins their lives, too.

And yet, they (the officials) can't seem to stop doing it, either.

[BOHICA12]

6. What about civil rights and freedom does she not understand?

Failing to make the leap into the 21st Century

[alp227]

8. Religion influences black Christians to differentiate gay rights and the '60s civil rights movements

[snooper2]

9. no, religion influences EVERYBODY to have ignorant ideas

and beliefs

[alp227]

10. I agree but I was talking specifically about the black POV

there are prominent African-American Christian leaders who have publicly advocated for things like California Prop. 8. Such as Bishop Harry Jackson and the disgraced Bishop Eddie Lee Long (who settled a case over alleged child molestation). They clearly understand how blacks can participate in mainstream society because of the Civil Rights Movement. However, religion has influenced homophobia among African Americans so much that they can't equate their bigoted attitudes against gays with the bigoted attitudes that whites gave blacks in the 1950s.

[Ecumenist]

15. I'm black and although I know who long is, (Son of a bitch hypocrite), I don't

know how Harry Jackson is and even if I did, I think for myself. There are more people like me than those who follow the direction of these so-called bishops. and yes, I'm a Christian, I just make my own decisions. As for long, ( I refuse to capitalise his first name), I don't think is was child molestation, it was semi-forced sexual relationships with some young men in the church. They were over all 18, IIRC

[sarcasmo]

13. +1

[patrice]

11. I just gave Bond the paddle on FB. nt

[sakabatou]

12. What a bigot

And as for the school prayer, didn't she know it's illegal?

[2ndAmForComputers]

14. The dialogue went something like this:

"What do you expect me to do, apologize?"
"No, Ms. Bond, I expect you to resign."

(Alas, there were no lasers involved.)

[Posteritatis]

16. Nice to see an administrator getting punished for a change. (nt)