Live on Anderson Cooper 360: Arkansas School Board Member Clint McCance Will Resign Over His Anti-Gay Post | [Followed by Insane Rant by "rosyjane"]

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Arkansas school board member to resign over anti-gay post
By the CNN Wire Staff
October 28, 2010 11:00 p.m. EDT
Clint McCance, vice president of the Midland School District in Arkansas, says he will resign.
(CNN) -- A school board district member in Arkansas who came under fire for an anti-gay post on a social networking site regrets the comments and will resign his seat, he told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Thursday.
"I'm sorry I've hurt people with my comments," Clint McCance, vice-president of the Midland School District in Pleasant Plains, Arkansas said. "I'm sorry I made those ignorant comments and hurt people on a broad spectrum."
McCance wrote on his personal Facebook page that he wanted gay people to commit suicide, according to The Advocate, a newspaper focusing on gay news.
McCance used the terms "queer" and "fag" repeatedly, promised to disown his own children if they are gay and stated that he enjoys "the fact that [gay people] give each other AIDS and die."
"I would never support suicide for any kids," he said. "I don't support bullying of any kids."
"I'd like to extend apologies to those families that have lost children, for all those children who feel that suicide is the only way out, especially for the five families who have already lost children," he said, referring to a rash of recent suicides by gay teens. "I brought more hurt on them... they didn't deserve that and I do feel genuinely bad for them."
Though he disapproves of homosexuality, McCance said that "I give everyone a chance and try to love everyone."
McCance said that he has received an outpouring of criticism over his comments, including "thousands of phone calls, hate mails, people threatening to kill my family and me."
He said he has sent his wife and two kids out of the state because of fears for their safety and that he is installing a security system at his home.
"I'm reaping what I've sown," he told CNN. "I've had a lot of hate speech thrown at me and my family on every level."
He said he would resign from the school board to spare the district the bad press and distractions of dealing with the fallout from his comments. "If they decide after five or ten years to vote me back in, then I'll run again," he said.
McCance's comments had drawn criticism from education officials in his district and at the state level.
"I strongly condemn the statements that appeared on Mr. Clint McCance's Facebook page," Tom Kimbrell, Arkansas commissioner of education, said in a statement Wednesday. "... The statements attributed to Mr. McCance constitute a significant departure from statements we expect from our school leaders. The divisiveness and disruption of these comments cause me to seriously question the ability of Mr. McCance to remain as an effective member of the Midland School Board."
The Midland School District had also denounced the posting. "The district strives to foster an environment that discourages all forms of bullying," it said in a statement this week, "and an environment that encourages a safe and productive educational climate [for] all of our students. The district is very diligent in pursuing and addressing bullying of any variety on our campuses."
The state Department of Education had said it was "dismayed to see that a school board official would post something of this insensitive nature on a public forum like Facebook."
Because McCance's Facebook page is not accessible publicly, the Advocate said it learned about the posts after being provided with a screen shot.
The posts were made, according to The Advocate, in response to a bullying awareness campaign sponsored by GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. The "Spirit Day" campaign aimed to foster recognition of bullying directed at gays and the effects it can have on young people through a series of events held on October 20.
One aspect of the campaign encouraged people to wear purple to honor those who had committed suicide after experiencing anti-gay bullying, and to show solidarity with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered youth who face the same pressures.
According to the screen grab obtained by The Advocate, McCance wrote the following about the event: "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." (sic)
The post spurred a Facebook page encouraging the Midland School District to fire McCance. More than 60,000 people had "liked" the page as of Thursday evening.
However, not everyone disagreed with McCance's comments, which he had defended on his page by citing his religious beliefs.
Gays and lesbians are "thinking they're all right, and [God is] going to let them think that and go to hell for believing what they're doing is right," pastor Harry Craig, of Pleasant Plains Full Gospel Church, told CNN Little Rock affiliate KARK.
On Tuesday, the federal government warned that bullying and harassment in schools often includes violations of federally protected civil rights. Officials warned that school administrators who fail to properly deal with harassment risk being cited for civil rights violations. In extreme cases, such violations could lead to cuts in federal funding.
A group of protesters had traveled Thursday to Pleasant Plains, where they held a demonstration to call for McCance's resignation.
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Dmerza1989
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i saw his apology, he was sorry he lost his job. Its his blind ignorance supported by blind faith that scares me, and that he still seems to hold dear to him. What a pitiful excuse for an American.
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Dmerza1989
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EthicalVegan
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Dmerza1989:
Couldn't have said it better. Thank you.
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EthicalVegan
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rosyjane
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"At least you tried to be natural and accept the truth that there are many reasons and ways why people becomes Gay. And that is enough.
Besides, we need to focus where those reasons came from why those men and boys becomes Gay. Is it in Adolescent Period? Is it from drugs? Is it from the Community where they came from or is it from what was happening inside the classroom or inside their home.
Is it from the social network where they belong? Or to those group of people forced or not to be Gay? With or Without Drugs."
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rosyjane
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EthicalVegan
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rosyjane:
No one "BECOMES" gay, for god's sake.
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EthicalVegan
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rosyjane
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EthicalVegan:
"Pardon? POLITICIANS ARE GREEDY!!! THEY ARE THIEVES AND IDENTITY THEFTS!!!! THEY SABOTAGE INNOCENT LIVES AND STOLE MONEY!!! THEY USES THEIR POWER TO MAKE THOSE GAYS RO SHUT UP BECAUSE YOU ARE ALREADY THERE!!!! YOU IDIOT!!!! YOU ARE A THIEF LIKE THEM!!! A SABOTEUR!!!! A KILLER!!!! ONE OF THOSE CLOSET QUEEN WHO HIDE TRIED THE TRUTH ABOUT GAYS!!!!
BY THE WAY, WILL YOU PLEASE READ THE ISSUES IN THE BAN OF GAYS INSIDE THE MILITARY? FOR ME, YOU WAS STILL AN IDIOT WHO FAKE IDENTITIES AND USES FRATERNITIES AND SORORITIES TO GAIN POWER, MONEY AND FAME!!!!!
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rosyjane
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EthicalVegan
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rosyjane:
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Oh, dear...
Shouting (that's writing in all caps, by the way) will get you nowhere.
And senseless, lousy writing (none of which addresses what I wrote), sends you not only to the back of the class, but expelled from your pre-school.
This is what I wrote: "No one "BECOMES" gay, for god's sake."
And then you wrote back a bunch of incoherent trash (again, none of which addresses what I wrote).
I wanted to feel sorry for you, but.... no,.... I'm just plain embarrassed for you.
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EthicalVegan
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Varex_Sythe
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rosyjane:
You need to lay off the drugs... or you need to wean yourself off of them at a slower pace to minimize the effects of withdraw. Either way, you are "verbally" attacking EthicalVegan out of the blue and you did not touch on one single subject that either you or her touched on before you freaked out, and to be blunt that makes you look like a spaz.
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Varex_Sythe
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rosyjane
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EthicalVegan:
are you sure? you are hiding something... ARE YOU ONE OF THOSE DRUG USER WHO HIDE THE TRUTH? HOW MUCH THEY PAY YOU TO HIDE THE TRUTH ABOUT IT? BULLSHIT!!!! YOU ARE A THIEF LIKE THOSE PEOPLE WHO SAID THEIR IS NOT GAY!!!!
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rosyjane
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Varex_Sythe
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rosyjane:
... holy balls, it's like Ayipis except the picture is what I presume to be a woman...
Maybe I was wrong and you don't need to lay off of the drugs. I'm thinking you might need those anti psychotics that your shrink prescribed you.
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Varex_Sythe
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rosyjane
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Varex_Sythe:
i do not need to say sorry... at first you are the one who did that... i love troubles because you did not know you are talking with... might be you are lack of education attained and that those thieves who told you to said that are drug addicts like you...
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rosyjane
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Varex_Sythe
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rosyjane:
I have not, nor anyone else on this thread, claimed that you need to apologize. I claimed that you are a spastic wench who is not only argumentative, but one who is responding to things that no one has written about. Because you are responding to things that no one has written about, it leads me to think that you are either; higher than a kite, going through severe withdraw symptoms, a paranoid schizophrenic, or an idiot. The fact that you cannot string together a coherent sentence makes me lean towards you being an idiot; however, because of your writing I cannot discount the previous three options. Though, assuming that you are indeed an idiot, allow me to show you the correct way to write what, I presume, you were meaning to write.
"I do not need to say sorry. At first you were the one who did that. I love trouble and it was funny because you did not know who you are talking with. Might you be the one who failed to attain an education and I propose that you are the one who has been taking controlled substances."
Learn basic grammar to the extent where you can compose a continuous thought wee girl and people will be able to be more insulted by you instead of just thinking, "Wow, she's fucking retarded. And not just stupid retarded but brain damaged, needs help tying her shoes, retarded."
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Varex_Sythe
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rosyjane
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Varex_Sythe:
"A warm applause to a mentally retarded child... whom do you think you are? A Professor of Linguistic? Or a Professor of a Speech Class? This is a Democratic Country and many thieves and saboteurs destroy my image like you because of envy... if you can not handle my language... please do not read because i am a Filipino.
Thieves and computer hackers destroy emails even comments and arguments... for that reason, i am glad you speak but no thanks i am still a Filipino not need to argue with English Phrase."-Donabell C. De Apera
By the way my name is Donabell C. De Apera and not rosyjane... i am a Freelance Industrial Engineer with units in Master in Arts in Teaching Science... all about Science even in Psychology and my main frame of subject is to study who those culprit of sabotaging current and are acting like a Saint but in total is lack of goodness inside their heart.
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rosyjane
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Varex_Sythe
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rosyjane:
Its spiffy and all that you are Filipino, and it does explain some of your issues with the english language; however, it does not change the fact that in earlier posts you completely ran off subject. You berated people for writing things that they did not write and attached concepts to the subject that were of no relation to either the subject or anything else on the thread. You also did it in a disjointed manner that positively screamed that you were either having a fit, or a psychotic episode.
Because of your continuous use of such "tactics" one would assume that it is not a temporary breakdown, but instead that you have a mental disability. I'm curious as to where you achieved your Masters. I might also point out that if your main frame of subject is to study culprits of sabotaging current, you chose a really ass backwards way of performing the experiment.
Also, are you quoting yourself because you have said that exact statement before? If so, don't just site the person from who the comment originated, but site the event that it was said in or the text in which it was written.
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Varex_Sythe
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rosyjane
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Varex_Sythe:
Does it hurt to your ego that i am a Filipino? Or does it hurt to your feelings that the issue against Gay under Anderson Cooper and that Official was already finished?
I am still enjoying teasing how all of you reacts... did you watched videos of your kind? Walking naked just to get attention, some of you make a scene inside the crowd and mostly, you did really said all of you are good in English... DAMN THAT ENGLISH SUBJECT!!!! E king murahin kaya kita sa Tagalog? May magagawa ka kaya? That is the difference of our race where we came from. You there i am here in the far off place.
E kung pagtawanan ko kaya kayo kasi kapag gumawa ang tulad ninyo ng eksena para sumikat lang e pati maliliit na tao at may mga sakit ginagamit pagkatapos e ninanakawan.
Well, that is the excitement of being a Filipino, even i said everything in Tagalog, you did not know... KAYA NGA ANG TANGA TANGA MO EH!!!
Journalism does need proper English but how you express the feelings of those victims of Mass Media nor even those Politicians or an issue to tackle with.
E kung patayin ko kaya ang issue at ikaw ang tawanan ko?
Who will be blamed now? Gays are the newest issues here in Current because there are plenty of Gays who joined in many Contest to be famous.
Ikaw ba? Sasali ka? Ako kasi e hindi pwede kasi bebot ako eh!
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rosyjane
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Varex_Sythe
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rosyjane:
I couldn't care less that you are Filipino, nor could I care less if you were Brazilian, Mongolian, Canadian, French, Aborigine, or any other ethnic and/or national background. I will admit that I am a wee bit confused by your use of the English language. I also appreciate that you made it clear, or at least it appears that you made it clear, that English is not your first language. You do grasp the words fairly well, but you're still having issues with how English sentences are constructed, and it makes it very VERY difficult to understand what you are getting at.
One word of advise though, if you are going to post on an online forum in which English is the primary language, learn to speak it and write it in a manner that allows people who speak and write it as a first language to understand what you are trying to communicate. If I ever go onto a forum where Tagalog is the primary language, I'll be sure to be fluent enough in the language to present my thoughts clearly.
And though I did poke holes in your shaky grasp of English, the main point of what I have previously wrote was that your train of thought was severely disjointed. You skipped between topics, brought up topics that were not and issue to the original thread nor an issue to what anyone previously had written, and you kind of went off a couple of times on what sounded like a cracked out conspiracy theory.
To wrap up this particular post, no I'm not impressed or surprised that you can speak Tagalog. That is like finding a Canadian who can speak French. Also, I really don't care what you might say in Tagalog. If it was important to your rant, and you weren't just showing off that you can write Tagalog without using three different N's, then you should have posted it in English.
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Varex_Sythe
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rosyjane
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Varex_Sythe:
Hey!!! Are you making me famous? You are older than me!!! I am new in current.com and does not have any official background being a Producer... i am an Amateur and trying to make Videos from my own skills that i learn from using celfone nor even a computer basics program.
Do i need to elaborate to you everything? Gays are now in fame because we always argued them. Did you research the engine here in current? That is the latest issue here!!!
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rosyjane
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rosyjane:
i have a question that i think will clear up a whole lot of your insane posts
when you say fame do you mean popular? because they are two very different concepts in the english language.
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donkeyfly69
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Varex_Sythe
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rosyjane:
Am I making you famous? You would know better than I since you would be the theoretical recipient of said fame.
Also, I'm not sure what you mean when you say that I'm older than you. Do you mean that I, personally, am physically older than you, or do you mean that my account on current is older than your account? Though I have to admit, I don't see how it would make a difference either way, nor do I see any point to exclaiming it. People are bound to be either older or younger than you.
Now, as far as your elaboration of how gays are now in fame, popular, and/or famous because we always argue about them. If homosexuality was a popular topic because people argued about it, then it would have been a popular topic for many previous centuries. It has been made a popular topic recently in the United States for the same reason that issues like abortion, stem cell research, overzealous interpretation of 2nd amendment rights, censorship, etc. These topics have been made popular by political talking points to distract the population of this nation from issues that are actually and immediately important to the well being of the nation. And since this online forum primarily hosts people who reside in the United States, those topics tend to dominate the discussion boards.
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Varex_Sythe
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XasthurNortt
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Keep these thoughts to yourself dumbass... especially if you work in an environment where you are scrutinized for the most mundane thing.
Next time don't make these statements imprinted in a physical format.
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XasthurNortt
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Saladin
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At least he had the good sense to resign in shame, even if he won't change his mind.
Could have been a lot worse, imagine if he had defiantly stayed on and made life in that school hell for any gay people. I'm sure it happens somewhere.
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Saladin
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LaMonica109
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What a DOUCHEWAFFLE!
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LaMonica109
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moodyblue
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He is sorry alright, sorry the world sees him for what he is. An ignorant, bigoted, narrow minded dumb ass. I feel sorry for his family, especially his children.
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Deadtheist
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7u1A5V8NcU
This article needs an appropriate soundtrack befitting its content.
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Deadtheist
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themotivateddropout
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From the article:
McCance said that he has received an outpouring of criticism over his comments, including "thousands of phone calls, hate mails, people threatening to kill my family and me."The religious community is going to have a field day with this.
"All he did was speak the truth and spread God's word and those godless HOMOSEXUALS are threatening his life and the life of his family! These heathens must repent and atone for their sins! Homosexuality makes you evil and crazy! It must be stopped!"
Anything they can do to paint gays in a bad light.
Oh and this grammatical train wreck of a wannabe human being doesn't regret a damn thing he said.
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Another model citizens Hollow apology just in time for Hollow-een
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dreamsenvoy
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dtgjty:
fuck you robot.
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themotivateddropout
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fun_size
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Glad to hear it. Hope this asshole gets blacklisted too.
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TimALoftis
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Watching the interview this evening on CNN I did not get the feeling that Mr. McCance was all that remorseful... While he did apologize for the hurt he caused, this guy clearly has some very deep problems with homosexuality. When asked by Anderson Cooper if he meant what he said earlier about disowning his own children if they grew up to be gay, Mr. McCance could not give an answer.
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TimALoftis:
Yes, I've watched that interview twice, now, and regrettably have to agree with you that this is show. Yes, he may have some PERSONAL "remorse," if you will, but that's because he got CAUGHT! He's still a homophobe, and what he DIDN'T say says it all.
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EthicalVegan
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TimALoftis:
If youre a parent who cares if youre kid is gay... so long as theyre happy! Its crazy to think some peoples hatred could run that deep.
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EthicalVegan
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http://www.advocate.com/uploadedImages/ADVOCATE/NEWS/2010/2010-10/2010-10-27/McC...
http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/10/28/McCance_Quits_on_Coopers_Show...
Posted on Advocate.com October 28, 2010
McCance Quits on Cooper's ShowBy Neal Broverman
CLINT MCCANCE | ADVOCATE.COMWhile appearing on AC360, Facebook gay basher Clint McCance resigned his position as a school board member for the Midland School District in Arkansas.
McCance gave up his position while speaking to CNN host Anderson Cooper. McCance caused a national furor this week when he posted on Facebook that gays should kill themselves; he also called gay people "queers" and "fags" and said they had AIDS.
"Clint McCance's decision to resign from the school board is a step forward for the community he represents. We are hopeful the wounds that were inflicted will soon be healed," said HRC President Joe Solmonese in a press release. "What remains troubling is that Mr. McCance focused his regret on particular word choices not the animus behind those words. We hope he will take this time to reflect not only on the language he used but on what he can do to make the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning young people better."
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EthicalVegan