An Arkansas school board member that made some very hateful remarks about gay folks resigned on Anderson Cooper's show last night. It seems kind of ironic that the extremely anti-gay Clint McCance would go on a gay man's show to make his announcement. He must have been clueless to the fact that Anderson Cooper is a gay man himself.
Even though Anderson Cooper isn't exactly out of the closet,it's good to see that he cares about gay issues. And he effected change when he got a homophobic man who sits on a school board to resign.We have too many bigots wielding some measure of power already. Good riddance,Clint McCance!
Here's more from The Huffington Post:
"The Arkansas school board member whose homophobic rants on Facebook drew widespread condemnation announced he was resigning on Thursday's "AC360."
Anderson Cooper told viewers that Clint McCance, a member of the Midland School District board in Arkansas, contacted him to set up an interview after his anti-gay Facebook posts sparked a wave of outrage.
The posts, which emerged on Wednesday, were written in response to the "Wear Purple Day" that was launched to show solidarity with gay youth in the wake of a recent string of suicides. In one post, McCance protested the idea behind the initiative.
"They want me to wear purple because five queers committed suicide," he wrote. "The only way I'm wearing for them is if they all commit suicide. I can't believe the people of this world have gotten this stupid.
In another post, he wrote, "it pisses me off, though, that we make special purple fag day for them. I like that fags can't procreate. I also enjoy that they often give each other AIDS and die...I would disown my kids they were gay. They will not be welcome at my home or in my vicinity. I will absolutely run them off."
During McCance's appearance on his show, Cooper confronted him about the extreme anti-gay sentiments he expressed."(END OF EXCERPT) Read more here.
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