Students at McGuffey High School, Pa Anti-gay day targeting LGBT students.

[marylander1940]

Students at McGuffey High School, Pa Anti-gay day targeting LGBT students.

 

A group of students at a Pennsylvania high school dissatisfied with the national Day of Silence event, which is designed to raise awareness of LGBT bullying, organized an "Anti-Gay Day" on Thursday before the Silence event on Friday, wearing flannel and writing the phrase "Anti-Gay" on their hands reports The Advocate. The national Day of Silence event is a largely peaceful event, but the students taking part in the "Anti-Gay Day," hung posters on LGBT students lockers and physically harassed LBGT peers within the hallways of McGuffey High School.

 

The group utilized social media to spread the event, posting pictures of themselves in flannel and planned on enacting additional anti-gay events with the first event lasting a full week. Groups like Focus on the Family and the Illinois Family Institute have organized several of their own anti-gay day events such as walkouts and their version of the day of silence called "Day of Dialogue," which they claim is designed to get Christians’ voices heard on the matter in what they deem a "loving, respectful manner." However, LGBT students and their supporters at McGuffey High School encountered the complete opposite of a "loving, respectful" event.

 

http://a1.typepad.com/6a01bb07a7d602970d01b8d1055f09970c-200wiSaid student Zoe Johnson (pictured right):

 

"There was pushing, posters hung on homosexual students' lockers. Teachers were having to run out and take them down. It hurts me to see how rude and cruel, and some of these people were my friends before this started."

 

McGuffey School District administrators are currently investigating the incident with the school’s superintendent, Dr. Erica Kolat, announcing that the school will "follow our Student Code of Conduct, and file legal citations as warranted…We will resolve to ensure that all children can grow and learn in a safe, supportive environment free from discrimination." However, students remain skeptical about returning to the school as a lynch list with students' names on it is reportedly circulating throughout the school.

 

http://www.towleroad.com/2015/04/pennsylvania-high-school-students-wear-flannel-harass-peers-to-protest-national-day-of-silence.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/20/mcguffey-school-anti-gay-day-_n_7101046.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

[+ quoththeraven]

I don't know where in PA this is -- the article doesn't say -- but they're damn lucky my daughter (who participated in the Day of Silence when she was in high school) didn't go there. I can just hear her ranting from here and asking me to sue someone.

 

I can hear you all thinking "the acorn doesn't fall far from the tree." LOL!

[sincitymix]

I think the whole thing is just vile and reprehensible. It crosses the line with the lynching list. Isnt that promoting or inciting something or other.. some people just need to be slapped twice.. and then slapped a few more times for good measure.

[+ FreshFluff]

Absolutely disgusting.

[Nvr2Thick]

I don't know where in PA this is -- the article doesn't say -- but they're damn lucky my daughter (who participated in the Day of Silence when she was in high school) didn't go there. I can just hear her ranting from here and asking me to sue someone.

 

I can hear you all thinking "the acorn doesn't fall far from the tree." LOL!

 

Looks like the school is in Claysville, PA. You might be surprised to learn that it's near the West Virginia border.

[AresEscortNYC]

Apparently it's a suburb of Pittsburgh. Strange how tepid the school's official response is. Feels like they are absolutely clueless as how to handle this, which can't be very reassuring for the threatened students.

[+ purplekow]

No matter how outraged most people on this site are, there a people out there who hate and those people can inspire the latent hatred in others. They learn it at home and if they are now taught or shown otherwise, it stays with them all their life. Someone at that school needs to show them and teach them otherwise. Hopefully a hero will arise. Have you ever noticed that the only time a hero arises is when there is trouble?

[maninsoma]

Remember that this is a state that has enough anti-gay voters that Rick Santorum represented them in the Senate. The kids doing this stuff at school are probably just mimicking their parents' anti-gay rhetoric.

[+ sync]

No matter how outraged most people on this site are, there a people out there who hate and those people can inspire the latent hatred in others. They learn it at home and if they are now taught or shown otherwise, it stays with them all their life. Someone at that school needs to show them and teach them otherwise.

 

I would like for the school officials to drag the parents onto the griddle along with them to explain to the media/social media what it is that inspired/emboldened their children to participate.

[marylander1940]

I don't know where in PA this is -- the article doesn't say -- but they're damn lucky my daughter (who participated in the Day of Silence when she was in high school) didn't go there. I can just hear her ranting from here and asking me to sue someone.

 

I can hear you all thinking "the acorn doesn't fall far from the tree." LOL!

 

It's near Claysville, PA 30 miles SW of Pittsburgh... Appalachia... I wonder how many of the bullies will become baby daddies and baby mammas in the near future, LOL.

 

They're Christian enough to be anti gay but when it comes to making it pure to marriage or stay away from Meth, wife beating, HIV or hating everybody else who looks or sounds differnt, Christianity isn't enough.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGuffey_High_School

 

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