{"id":32381,"date":"2013-02-02T11:47:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T18:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/02\/i-just-dont-like-queers.html"},"modified":"2013-02-02T11:47:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T18:47:05","slug":"i-just-dont-like-queers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/02\/i-just-dont-like-queers.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;I just don&#39;t like queers&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tend to be a civil libertarian. I have deep, abiding support for people being able to hold <i>and<\/i> speak out on things they believe, whether it&#39;s stuff I agree with or stuff I disagree with.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, there are circumstances where that&#39;s not allowable. And one of them is at school. Because teachers have a special role at school. They have <i>influence<\/i> and they help shape the thoughts of their students. They have power over students, both temporal and psychological. And with that great power comes great responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Which means when they break away from teaching the facts and into diatribes (<a href=\"http:\/\/bcove.me\/8bafm6ic\" class=\"ot-anchor\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bcove.me\/8bafm6ic<\/a>) about Michelle Obama&#39;s weight an how what &quot;queers&quot; do is an &quot;abomination against God,&quot; it&#39;s wrong. It&#39;s wrong because it&#39;s not what they&#39;re being hired to teach. And it&#39;s wrong because it encourages that sort of thinking\u00a0among students (e.g., the others on the audiotape sharing his sentiments).<\/p>\n<p>And it&#39;s wrong because it divides students and puts those who don&#39;t agree with him on the outside. \u00a0Imagine being, for example, a gay high school student and listening to your beloved coach (<a href=\"http:\/\/timesdaily.com\/stories\/Coach-of-the-Year-Bob-Grisham,200397\" class=\"ot-anchor\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/timesdaily.com\/stories\/Coach-of-the-Year-Bob-Grisham,200397<\/a>) saying that sort of thing. What sort of treatment do you expect to get from him, or from his coterie?<\/p>\n<p>(I won&#39;t go into my side commentary about the football coach also being the driver&#39;s ed teacher and the psychology teacher.)<\/p>\n<p>And it gets worse when he then tries to weasel out of it (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/view?i=4c5_1359782889\" class=\"ot-anchor\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/view?i=4c5_1359782889<\/a>) with claptrap like, &quot;I misspoke in a debate-type situation. I have no hatred toward anyone or any group. People that know my heart, they know that.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>No, Coach &#8212; they know your words. That wasn&#39;t misspeaking (unless you mean misspeaking because it was being recorded). That <i>was<\/i> your heart showing through.<\/p>\n<p>I think Coach Grisham needs to be disciplined, and firmly. Not because he believes those things. But because saying them in front of students is wrong, a breach of trust and an abuse of power. (h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/112557653998844629535\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"112557653998844629535\">Wendy Cockcroft<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images1-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/timesdaily.com\/uploads\/inline\/1359596319_7138.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/timesdaily.com\/stories\/School-board-likely-to-meet-soon-about-coachs-remarks,202014?content_source=&#038;category_id=37&#038;search_filter=&#038;event_mode=&#038;event_ts_from=&#038;list_type=&#038;order_by=&#038;order_sort=&#038;content_class=&#038;sub_type=stories&#038;town_id='>School board likely to meet soon about coach\u2019s remarks &#8211; TimesDaily.com<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tROGERSVILLE \u2014 Schools Superintendent Jennifer Gray said she expects school board members to meet within the next two weeks to determine if disciplinary action is warranted for a teacher who made slurs&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/FBPS3tyH3Zz' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tend to be a civil libertarian. I have deep, abiding support for people being able to hold and speak out on things they believe, whether it&#39;s stuff I agree with or stuff I disagree with. On the other hand, there are circumstances where that&#39;s not allowable. And one of them is at school. Because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/02\/i-just-dont-like-queers.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&quot;I just don&#39;t like queers&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24245,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/05\/on-the-internet-everyone-knows-youre-a-bitch.html","url_meta":{"origin":32381,"position":0},"title":"On the Internet, Everyone Knows You&#39;re a Bitch","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 5-Dec-11 12:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"(with apologies to Peter Steiner http:\/\/bit.ly\/rOjHWf)The below link forwarded not so much for the content -- I'm sure you could find 11 zillion comments on Facebook saying pretty much the same, asinine thing -- but because it's emblematic of people, especially but not solely public figures, realizing that there's no\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":19018,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/27\/unblogged-bits-wed-27-oct-10-1130.html","url_meta":{"origin":32381,"position":1},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 27-Oct-10 1130)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 27-Oct-10 11:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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