A gang of homophobic high schoolers in Pittsburgh have decided to wear their hate on their sleeves.
Several students from McGuffey High School organized a so-called “Antigay Day” in response to the observance of last week’s nationally recognized “Day of Silence,” which is intended to raise awareness to the LGBT bullying and harassment happening in schools.
The baby bigots plastered posters around the hallways and on the lockers of gay students encouraging others to wear flannel shirts and write “Anti-Gay” on their hands. An alleged “lynch list” was also distributed among students.
“There was pushing, posters hung on homosexual students’ locker,” Zoe Johnson, a student at McGuffey High School, told WPXI. “Teachers were having to run out and take them down.”
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Dr. Erica Kolat, the superintendent of McGuffey School District, released the following statement downplaying the controversy:
“Yesterday afternoon, April 16, 2015, allegations of harassment were brought to the attention of our administration. McGuffey School District, along with school police officers, continue to investigate all allegations. We will follow our Student Code of Conduct, and file legal citations, as warranted. We resolve to ensure that all children can grow and learn in a safe, supportive environment free from discrimination.”
But that didn’t ease the concerns of several students who said they were now afraid to go to class.
“It hurts me to see how rude and cruel,” Johnson said, “and some of these people were my friends before this started.”
So far there has been no word on whether or not the students responsible for coordinating “Antigay Gay” have been reprimanded for their actions.
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Brandon Jones
How fucking disgusting.
Curty
Still a long ways to go to fight the bigotry, even in this generation that are more accepting. smh.
ingyaom
WTF?
polarisfashion
Those students should be charged hate crimes.
Korree Johnson
They should all be expelled
Low Country Boy
@polarisfashion: Somehow I’m doubting that Ohio has hate crime legislation. These little shits need a taste of their own medicine.
NoCagada
I say CORNHOLE ‘EM!
BeachDaddyDave
What fills young people with such hatred. Where does this come from? How are we failing them all?
Ronbo
Give them their own special holiday for bigots: Lindsey Graham Day. They could make their own colorful parasols and parade around, hand on hip, spouting Bible verses in favor of unending war.
Paco
Why did they choose flannel? So they could identify one another and meet up secretly in their closets later on?
Stache99
Same pigs that enjoyed burning crosses in people lawns.
Stache99
@BeachDaddyDave: Ask the parents. I’m sure you’ll figure it out within 30 seconds.
Billysees
@Curty:
“Still a long ways to go to fight the bigotry, even in this generation that are more accepting”
Yes, there ‘is’ a long ways to go.
@BeachDaddyDave:
“What fills young people with such hatred. Where does this come from? How are we failing them all?”
What great questions to ask. I think the answers, whatever they are, may not be easily understood.
Billysees
@Stache99:
“Ask the parents. I’m sure you’ll figure it out within 30 seconds.”
That’s a start. Probably a good place to start too.
Hal DeRoos
Anybody that participated in the “anti gay day” should be expelled!
Matt O'Brien
What a surprise. No punishment from the school. Guess they’ll hide behind their loving Christian beliefs while they clutch their 2000 yr old fairy tale . How these kids haven’t been suspended already is beyond me!!!
Giancarlo85
Some may argue that they have freedom of speech. No they don’t. The school has ultimate authority over what happens on their property. Day of Silence was approved and permitted, but this was not. I hope disciplinary action occurs.
Creating a disruptive disrespectful environment cannot and should not go unpunished.
Brian Akey
What the actual fuck?
tdx3fan
@Giancarlo85: Its not a private school. Therefore, the tax payers in the community have the actual ultimate control over what occurs on their property. Its why school board officials are elected and have school board meetings. That being said, this was a disgusting, stupid act.
Also, Pittsburgh is in PA NOT OH.
Mack
And anything said or done by the gay community will be construed as bullying or being anti-religion. No matter what we do now days we’ll be considered as anti-religion.
April Kirksey Wauer
Expulsion will feed their hatred. Give them in school suspension, and make them do a few hundred hours of community service. Maybe they’ll learn to give a damn about someone else.
onthemark
Since when are flannel shirts an anti-gay uniform?
I always associated flannel shirts with Kurt Cobain?
Dakotahgeo
Stupid reigns at McGuffaw HS!
Giancarlo85
@tdx3fan: You have a point to a certain extent. The school board is the one that has the final say in this matter. This is what a representative republic is about (you elect representatives). The taxpayers having direct control over day to day policy isn’t true though. Again, the school board does even though they are elected. And I am not sure if the principal/superintendent are elected and am going to assume they were appointed by the school board.
Merv
@BeachDaddyDave:
What fills young people with such hatred. Where does this come from?
Christianity.
How are we failing them all?
Brainwashing them as children.
David Gervais
They group published a photo of themselves wearing flannel shirts and jeans in the school hallway.
Gayest group photo since the Village People.
http://www.wpxi.com/photo/news/local/anti-gay-day-post/pCcqnd/
David Gervais
Note that the photo as it appears in this link is distorted. The hallway isn’t really that wide, and some of the kids are actually good looking in a baby clone kind of way.
Billysees
@Merv:
“What fills young people with such hatred. Where does this come from?
Christianity.”
Christianity is a mixed bag. I think that many more examples of love and acceptance rather than hatred come from this religion.
Robert Zakem
I agree. The perpetrators of this hate should be kicked out unceremoniously. F@#$ due process!!!!
gaym50ish
Similar cases have been ruled to be sexual harassment under the federal Title IX law, so the school is probably obliged to investigate every complaint and do something about it.
I wonder if the kids would get away with writing “anti-Jew” on their hands.
Sluggo2007
@Low Country Boy: Excuse me, Low Intelligence Boy, but Pittsburgh is in Pennsylvania.
Sluggo2007
@Matt O’Brien: What’s the surprise here? It’s Pittsburgh, for Pete’s sake!
RIGay
Having been born and raised (and escaped from) Pissburgh… er… Pittsburgh, this is NO surprise to me. I am sure the students will get full support of what ever school board runs that cesspool.
1EqualityUSA
Santorum High School
Cam
So one group wanting the right to exist, infuriated a religious group so much that they passed around a list of students to lynch.
Because, you know, gay people existing is a brutal attack on others “Religious Freedom”.
I’m sure nothing will be done to the other students, they’ll get a talking to, and the gay students will be told it was their fault for not being quiet about it.
1EqualityUSA
and ten years from now, at some high school reunion, the leaders of the anti-gay group will be with their same-sex spouses…
JessPH
According to an article from RAWSTORY:
The group uploaded Bible verses to social media and tagged their gay classmates
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/pittsburgh-high-schoolers-under-fire-for-anti-gay-day-with-lynch-list-targeting-pro-lgbt-students/
They are Christians. How surprising!
JessPH
Instagram picture of user austin7007
http://ak-hdl.buzzfed.com/static/2015-04/20/10/enhanced/webdr11/longform-17578-1429539462-19.jpg
They even have a cross drawn under their anti-gay written on their hands:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/mcguffey-high-anti-gay-day#.lfODKZ8Q7
JessPH
This is what the bigots look (WITHOUT the blurred faces):
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s–c8aluQbi–/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_320/l7t2mbtqlkkqqqxreasv.jpg
jason smeds
Someone tell these baby bigots that they’ve been drinking too much hater-ade.
dhmonarch89
https://twitter.com/McGuffeySD twitter page- funny, if you click on the link from here to website- it’s ‘temporarily’ down
myloginname
@JessPH: I thought it said Aint I Gay
Merv
@Billysees: When it comes to gay people, Christianity is far from a mixed bag. Throughout almost its entire history their default response to homosexuality was execution. When they couldn’t do that anymore, they arrested and imprisoned gay people. That was until 2003 in the US.
Clark35
This is disgusting they should all be expelled or sent to alternative schools.
Jackson David Taylor
I would stop at nothing short of getting them expelled for that lynch list.
Nicholas Olivero
More like the church organized it and told their indoctrinated drones to execute it.
jsmu
For the spineless BITCH Erika Kolat: Are you yet another hatefilled KAHRISTYUN like your cretinous students? Are you really stupid enough to think this story is not smeared all over the country? Do you really think you’ll keep your job at this rate?
Clark35
@Jackson David Taylor: If I were a student at the HS, or the parent of an LGBT student or hetero student I’d contact law enforcement.
Dakotahgeo
Very content seeing the ‘real’ fuck faces of these baby boyz! With names, they’ll be easy to track for the rest of their lifetimes. Sweat, jocks… SWEAT!
Realitycheck
@Mack:
Assault is a crime, and so is plotting and scheming
in order to produce harm to others, and that is what
these people did, as well as vandalizing people/school
property.
As far as anti religious, why not? Di you ever hear of a miracle
from God helping a gay person or of a gay saint? The silence
from God is deafening because there is no god, there are only
uneducated religiously brainwashed people incapable of
thinking for themselves.
Dakotahgeo
@Realitycheck: You’re an alien visiting from another planet, aren’t you? Disgusting, uneducated quarks!
Billysees
@Merv:
“When it comes to gay people, Christianity is far from a mixed bag.”
I think it’s a mixed bag in today’s world especially here in America and in the West in general. Certainly in the last 40 years. I went public as being gay back then, and things have progressed pretty smoothly since. But, I live in a very liberal city and state where basically, conservatives amount to near nothing in their influence on public attitudes and official policy. That’s a great thing too and is responsible for much peace of mind.
Even when the NT was written, there was not a call for any kind of bodily harm to be administered to LGBT’s as far as I know, but there was some grumbling about being evil and wicked and that sort of thing which are the typical characterizations of unbelievers in general. The believing or faith or religiosity of LGTB’s has changed dramatically in those 40 years also.
Whenever or if ever you read the scriptures, it’s important to keep this in mind always —
The NT has all the important and progressive stuff to benefit LGBT’s, but it’s got some unfriendly stuff too, but even then, its applicability and importance towards every person is different.
A man named Paul wrote most of the NT, and he says this about his own writings and it may apply to other scriptures as well —
1. …our knowledge is partial and incomplete…
2. …we see things imperfectly…
3. All that I know now is partial and incomplete…
(1 Corinthians 13:9,12)
Those three points are exactly the reason it is necessary to judge and evaluate a matter or people based on all reasonable, ‘current or modern’ attitudes, experiences and knowledge.
The above is also the evidence needed to show that in his words, he reveals that there is no infallibility or accuracy of scripture. Even ‘inspired’ opinions are up for interpretation.
Obviously then, we need to know that there are new and better ways of understanding an issue than rely solely on scripture, which is too incomplete and imperfect.
“Throughout almost its entire history their default response to homosexuality was execution. When they couldn’t do that anymore, they arrested and imprisoned gay people. That was until 2003 in the US.”
If you were talking about another religion besides Christianity, you’d be right about executions. But I think you’ll need to present some evidence of the execution of LGBT’s at any time in Christianity’s history. There were some ‘burning-at-the-stake’ scenarios but I don’t know whether any gays were involved. There may have been arrests and imprisonment of LGBT’s, but I’m not aware of that and have not read anything to explain that. I don’t know what significance the year 2003 has.
Here’s a couple of things you may want to look over. I have not spent any time with them yet. They appear to be a scholarly presented LGBT history and timeline —
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_history
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_LGBT_history