During one state of insomnia Wednesday night, I heard Anderson Cooper talking about a man who was a member of a school board in Arkansas who made some really awful comments about LGBTQ on his Facebook page (brilliant right?). Apparently, the district faculty and staff were asked to wear purple in honor of the lives lost due to gay suicides and to show support to the prevention of all forms of bullying.
Clint McCance, who was actually the vice president of the school district, has now resigned after being condemned for his Facebook posts in which he indicated that he would never wear purple for this cause unless all gays killed themselves. McClance also made a comment saying he was glad gays spread AIDS to each other and died.
You can only imagine the wonderful responses he received. So now, Mr. McClance is cleaning up quite a mess he's made. He has made the very best decision by stepping down from his position. This way, he can at least leave with an ounce of dignity. Midland School District would have surely fired him anyway because after McCance's comments were discovered, they made it quite clear that they were not supporting him and it went against their efforts to stop bullying of all forms.
McCance has now spoken out to explain himself. He has been quoted as saying he would never support bullying or kids' suicides. I must say sarcastically, nice try. But he's in a little deeper, so a lie won't work. I would suggest the Isaiah Washington route, but his career hasn't picked up either after his slip up.
On a positive note, I must commend the media on not making this a big deal. It's not splattered all over CNN like the Florida reverend, so I can only imagine that the different media outlets had to make the decision whether to make this worse than it already is or to move on to more important news like weird packages sent to Chicago from Yemen. McCance was mentioned on Anderson Cooper at 1 a.m. while I was pacing the floor, but I haven't heard or read about it otherwise.
My suggestion to Mr. McCance: go into hiding until the next idiot slips up (it appears to be happening often, so we'll forget about him in a month or so). Oh and buy a diary; don't put your idiotic comments on the web for the world to see (including your employers).
**Have a safe and exciting Halloween everyone!**
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It's comforting to think that media outlets did some soul searching and decided not to elevate this issue. But could it be that, as you indicated, there were plenty of events to keep journalists occupied. I find that news coverage of issues may inflate or deflate depending on whether it's a slow news day or week.
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