I certainly wouldn’t let them read the facebook screenshot at the bottom of this page….
In case you didn’t know, we have a bit of national controversy on our hands. In Midland a fella named Clint McCance, who serves on the Midland School Board made the mistake of posting his feelings on LGBT people all over his Facebook page (I provided a copy at the bottom of this post for those who want to read the blatant hate and homophobia). I don’t know what is more troubling…the fact that this guy (Clint McCance) serves on a school board in our state or the fact that he gets contracts from the school board he serves on to clean the schools…Either way, if I was a tax payer in Midland I would want some answers, and I wouldn’t want this troglodite to even think about having anything to do with making policy and overseeing the education of my kids.
Here is some of the backstory – last Wednesday, October 20, there was a concerted effort for people to wear purple in support of LGBT students and to recognize that we have lost a significant number of young people in the month of September to suicide. One such young person left a city council meeting in Oklahoma, went home and committed suicide because the council meeting was so stressful! Well it seems Mr McCranky didn’t like the idea of wearing purple.
So how does this great advocate for kids respond? By posting on his facebook page that the only way he would wear purple is if all the LGBT people committed suicide and calling people like me who wore purple “stupid”. And we wonder where Arkansas gets a reputation as being backwater and inbred….
This braniac has gone so far as to inspire a group of people to create a facebook page calling for his ouster. Take a look at the page and see for yourself how people are reacting to McCranky…6222 people had “liked” Fire McCance page last time I checked.
So if you saw this on HRC’s national blog, Joe.My.God, The Advocate, or any of the other national sites (at last glance the name Clint McCance returned 23,000 articles when searched in google) that are highlighting the kind of backwood knuckdragging rednecks we have serving on our school boards then take heart…we are not all redneck kooks who say things like “I would disown my kids if they were gay”. There are many hard working people engaged in the education system in our state – Clint McCance just isn’t one of them.
My favorite response can was be seen on his business facebook page which has been taken down by Facebook – it said something like this…”this guy is just marking time until until he is caught with his own cabana boy carrying his luggage”.
Mr. McCance, I don’t pray often but when I do I ask God to look over the children and those who don’t have the sense God gave a goose. I would include you in the last catagory. I hope that your children leave home soon and find out that outside of your little world there is such a thing as unconditional love – even though they wouldn’t find it at your home….under your roof.
And to the Midland School District – I hope your records are current and there was a real bid process used before you gave work and the taxpayers money to a bigot like ol’ Clint there….I wouldn’t be surprised if someone somewhere starts a little investigation into how that bid was awarded to someone who sits on the school board…smells like conflict of interest to me.
This McCance fellow is a very misgiuded person and by his words appears to have a lot of hatred in his heart. His “Christian” witness is not the type of Christianity I’ve learned both as a child and an adult. My Christian faith informs me to always show love for the sinner while instructing the sinner to reject their sin and go sin no more just as Jesus told the adulteress in John 8:1-11. It really is that simple.
But what is just as sad and heartbreaking as the McCance fellow is how, as a society, we are encouraging and promoting and condoning the dangerous, harmful and quite deadly homosexual behavior and lifestyle to our children (those under age 18) and young adults (those who are over age 18). Many of these children and young adults are simply sexually confused but because there is now only one message in society today, which is “homosexuality is a good and viable and healthy lifestyle choice” when the evidence is abundantly and overwhelmingly clear that it is not, we are prevented from successfully reaching and educating people of the lurking danger. What is urgently needed is to educate children and young adults that homosexuality, by all medical, psychological/psychiatric and spiritual measurements, is and can be a very destructive, dangerous, risky, harmful and deadly behavior and lifestyle. And further to educate that unwanted same-sex attractions can successfully be cured with the emphasis being on “unwanted” since there’s not much that can be done when someone doesn’t want to stop a particular lifestyle and behavior. Moreover, we must constantly educate children and young people on what should always be the “gold standard” of society in order to achieve healthy and fulfilling relationships which is monogamous, hetersexual relationships in which sex comes after marriage. To be sure, plenty of people will sneer and scoff at such an old-fashioned notion but when people follow this “recipe” for living they are usually living happy lives.
To utter and write the words I have just writtten is not “hateful” no matter how many times some GLBT radical tells you so. Such people simply can not handle the fact that I and millions of others categorically reject their proven dangerous, risky, harmful and deadly behavior and lifestyle. Keep in mind that we are not rejecting the person but only the lifestyle. That is huge distinction that GLBT radicals never want to understand. We reject such behavior and lifestyle, and consequently refuse to celebrate it, promote it, endorse it, embrace it, encourage it, condone it or otherwise permit it to be codified into law as an acceptable and a worthy behavior and lifestyle. This sentiment and viewpoint is not any different to how society has handled other deleterious behaviors and lifestyles like smoking, drunk-driving and drug and alcohol abuse. It was out of love that society has fought — somewhat successfully — to reduce smoking and drunk-driving and drug and alcohol abuse. Imagine if the same battle to reduce homosexuality was fought in which children and young adults would be encouraged to avoid this behavior and lifestyle and its much higher incidences of HIV/AIDS, syphillis, gonnorhea and hepatitis not to mention the disastrious emotional, psychological, psychiatric and spiritual costs of the homosexual behavior and lifestyle. While engaging in such a fight wouldn’t wipe out homosexual behavior just like smoking, drunk-driving and drug and alcohol abuse, it would nonetheless likely save thousands of lives from engaging in such a dangerous, risky and deadly behavior. We don’t push and encourage our children and young adults to smoke, drive drunk and use and abuse drugs and alcohol — all clearly harmful, risky, unhealthy, dangerous and deadly behaviors and lifestyles — then why on earth would we promote another obviously harmful, unhealthy, risky, dangerous and deadly behavior and lifestyle like homosexuality?
And please don’t regurgitate the tired and worn mantra that we just need to hand out more condoms at gay bathhouses and nightclubs. That doesn’t do anything to stop the homosexual behavior and lifestyle. When society fought to reduce smoking and drunk-driving and drug and alcohol abuse these educational campaigns didn’t seek to make safer cigarettes or safer cars that wouldn’t kill people when a drunk-drivver crossed the highway centerline or make drugs and alcohol somehow safer. Of course not! Such educational campaigns focused on changing, reducing and eliminating the behavior and lifestyle and showing why such behaviors and lifestyles are inherently harmful, unhealthy, risky, destructive, dangerous and oftentimes deadly. We must have courage — out of love — to do the same thing with those who might or are presently engaged in homosexual behavior and its lifestyle and culture, and as a society and as a government never ever promote and endorse such a behavior and lifestyle.
Didn’t I ban you months ago?
some people are “it” getters and some aren’t. FMP is not an “it” getter or I wouldn’t have to say “I am happily married and expecting our first child (I have a son who is 25). I am also gay – or a lesbian if you prefer – and it isn’t a “lifestyle” or “choice”.”
I don’t appreciate being compared to a disease or addiction any more than FMP appreciates being called a redneck or bigot or (my favorite) knuckledragging troglodite.
I was born this way – get used to it. I deserve the same rights as everyone else – Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. And if the state gives rights to people based on marriage then my marriage should be recognized as just that! I did it just like everyone else it is just that the participants were a little different.
Regardless of all that – bullies are bullies and they will never win the war even if they win some fights.
He’s FireBlanchLincoln under a new name and IP address. We banned him a long time ago of course for anti-gay tirades, specifically one directed at PolAddict for those that don’t know. That’s ok, he’s easily taken care of.
This McCance idiot should be removed from the school board. This evil man has no place anywhere near children. He most certainly does NOT represent Christianity as I practice and know it.
This is where RESPONSIBLE speech has to kick in. This man has to be removed. He needs to see that his words are encouraging suicide, bullying, and other evils. He must be held responsible for these evil words.
I wonder what Arkansas hero Horatio Lee Jenkins would think about this Mr. McCance fellow…. We all know his stance on homosexuality… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYvH7Gjbxh4