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MH1

(17,600 posts)
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 01:52 PM Feb 2013

Teacher Says Gays Have No Purpose In Life, Wants LGBT Kids Banned From Prom

via SPLC's Facebook page:

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/teacher-says-gays-have-no-purpose-in-life-wants-lgbt-kids-banned-from-prom/discrimination/2013/02/11/60218

A teacher of special needs children in Indiana is speaking out with other Christian parents and students by demanding LGBT kids be banned from a Sullivan High School prom. When asked, teacher Diana Medley responded to a reporter that she believes gay people have no purpose in life, and agrees that anti-gay parents and students should create a separate, “traditional” prom that would ban gay students from attending. Sullivan High School itself is allowing all students to the official prom, but these militant anti-gay Christians are trying to get students to attend their prom instead of the school’s official prom.
(emphasis added)

What a horrendous thing to say. A teacher. Of "special needs children."



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Teacher Says Gays Have No Purpose In Life, Wants LGBT Kids Banned From Prom (Original Post) MH1 Feb 2013 OP
Sounds like ablamj Feb 2013 #1
At the very least gollygee Feb 2013 #2
The people who claim to be on the side of morals and values usually lack them completely. Initech Feb 2013 #12
She should be ashamed of herself. hrmjustin Feb 2013 #3
What an ugly person Angry Dragon Feb 2013 #4
If she wants to teach at Fred Phelps High, she should go apply there. tblue Feb 2013 #5
Exactly. MH1 Feb 2013 #7
it's almost like she's daring someone to fire her.... Blue_Tires Feb 2013 #16
Fire her Kalidurga Feb 2013 #6
The school can't afford to fire her jmowreader Feb 2013 #20
She should be fired. HooptieWagon Feb 2013 #26
Maybe that was her objective ThoughtCriminal Feb 2013 #33
Many people take time to find their purpose in life... uriel1972 Feb 2013 #8
What's her purpose in life? tblue Feb 2013 #28
If they tried that at my kids school... SomethingFishy Feb 2013 #9
She has a pretty narrow view of what qualifies as purpose in life Blaukraut Feb 2013 #10
At least she is up front about her ignorant bigotry. Lint Head Feb 2013 #11
What a strange way to put it. Shrike47 Feb 2013 #13
Yeah...only people that f*ck to make babies Scruffy Rumbler Feb 2013 #14
Well I'm gay, and I have no purpose in life. sibelian Feb 2013 #15
No, it means brown is the color you like jmowreader Feb 2013 #21
Irony appreciation fail, dood!!!!! sibelian Feb 2013 #39
I spoke with the school principal dbackjon Feb 2013 #17
Good! Stay on it. HooptieWagon Feb 2013 #27
Good for you! tblue Feb 2013 #29
Thank you! MH1 Feb 2013 #34
I really have to imagine the world from which this person emerged....... Swede Atlanta Feb 2013 #18
I wish these dumbasses would evolve already or just die off! DearHeart Feb 2013 #19
I don't even know what to say about something like that mythology Feb 2013 #22
W.T.F.? She certainly has no business jazzimov Feb 2013 #23
bless her little heart arely staircase Feb 2013 #24
What an ass ismnotwasm Feb 2013 #25
She believes this is her ticket into heaven. Send me where the gay folks go. tblue Feb 2013 #30
No shit ismnotwasm Feb 2013 #36
Damn. What a cruel thing to say about the students and their loved ones. nt ZombieHorde Feb 2013 #31
Gays have no purpose in life due to no children? LittleBlue Feb 2013 #32
That was my take on her meaning. MH1 Feb 2013 #35
An interesting reply at your link Oilwellian Feb 2013 #37
Some more on this, and link to petition at Change.org MH1 Feb 2013 #38

Initech

(100,097 posts)
12. The people who claim to be on the side of morals and values usually lack them completely.
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 02:13 PM
Feb 2013

Fuck this teacher and "Christian" and anyone who thinks like her.

tblue

(16,350 posts)
5. If she wants to teach at Fred Phelps High, she should go apply there.
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 02:01 PM
Feb 2013

That's why children commit suicide. Because they get that message thrown at them again and again. The woman really needs to be relieved of her job and her school relieved from her.

MH1

(17,600 posts)
7. Exactly.
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 02:03 PM
Feb 2013

I just saw red when I read this. How can someone who is allegedly a teacher, say stuff like this?

Thank you for verbalizing the point about suicide. It's important that people understand.

jmowreader

(50,562 posts)
20. The school can't afford to fire her
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 06:40 PM
Feb 2013

That is, unless their liability insurance protects them from religious-discrimination lawsuits, which this teacher would fire the second she was canned.

She needs to be fired, but the Jesus Card is a terrible and powerful thing.

 

HooptieWagon

(17,064 posts)
26. She should be fired.
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 06:57 PM
Feb 2013

She mixed her religion with school, and made a public statement of discrimination. Teachers have been fired for less.

ThoughtCriminal

(14,047 posts)
33. Maybe that was her objective
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 08:50 PM
Feb 2013

Be outrageous, get fired, sue, settle out court, live off the settlement.

That's pretty close to how Phelps operates.

I think she can expect to keep her job with zero friends outside of her cult circle... and get all the really crappy assignments.



Blaukraut

(5,693 posts)
10. She has a pretty narrow view of what qualifies as purpose in life
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 02:12 PM
Feb 2013

My sister-in-law is a middle school teacher. So her purpose in life, guiding kids on their path to adulthood is negated by the fact that she is a lesbian? I don't think so.

Lint Head

(15,064 posts)
11. At least she is up front about her ignorant bigotry.
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 02:12 PM
Feb 2013

The Nazis said the same thing about Jews and racists say the same thing about Black Americans. I am bigoted against bigots and racists.

Shrike47

(6,913 posts)
13. What a strange way to put it.
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 02:15 PM
Feb 2013

How does sexual orientation affect, say, her ability to teach? Is the only purpose for people to breed? If so, why don't we kill off the sterile and those who are past breeding?

I guess she sees people who are different from her as worthless. Or she hasn't thought about this very much.

Scruffy Rumbler

(961 posts)
14. Yeah...only people that f*ck to make babies
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 02:26 PM
Feb 2013

have a purpose. Because making babies is the ONLY reason to exist. Making babies is the ONLY reason to have sex. And that is what it boils down to, making babies...

Of course none of us HoMOsexuals have contributed to the betterment of humankind...not one bit!

sibelian

(7,804 posts)
15. Well I'm gay, and I have no purpose in life.
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 03:10 PM
Feb 2013

But I don't think that's anything to do with me being gay. I think it's more to do with me being lazy and unfocussed. I clearly need to MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF MY GAYNESS DAMMIT. I should have a great big GAY LIFE full of GAY SHIT. I need my own Pride float, that's what I need! Yeah! YEAH! A great big FUCK YOU Pride float made out of FOCUS.

#sulk

I wear brown quite a lot. Does that mean brown is gay?
 

dbackjon

(6,578 posts)
17. I spoke with the school principal
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 04:14 PM
Feb 2013

She sounded very harried, and said the School governing body would shortly put out a statement addressing this issue.

She didn't sound happy with the teacher.

MH1

(17,600 posts)
34. Thank you!
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 09:10 PM
Feb 2013

I'm sure the principal is getting a lot of calls. And, this was not a decision of the school - they are keeping the official prom inclusive, from what I understand.

 

Swede Atlanta

(3,596 posts)
18. I really have to imagine the world from which this person emerged.......
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 05:36 PM
Feb 2013

To say that a gay person has no purpose in life is very sanctimonious. This suggests she knows how to value life. Does this mean she, and not God, make this determination? This is of course on the assumption that God exists or that two or more people agree God exists (which I do).

Where does it say in the cobbled, fairy-tail inspired book called the Bible, does it say that gay people's lives have no purpose? Is it the "go forth, be fruitful and multiply?". That must mean that infertile heterosexual couples or heterosexual couples who, by choice, do not pro-create have no purpose in life.

I would suggest that in a world that is over-populated...in a world where we cannot provide safe and plentiful drinking water...in a world where we cannot provide safe and adequate, healthy food...in a world where we cannot provide safe and adequate housing...in a world where we cannot provide gainful and meaningful employment.......we should be encouraging pro-creation?

I think the most immoral organizations in this world are those that openly support and promote pro-creation. The Catholic and Mormon churches come to mind.

We cannot continue to grow the world's population. We must "right-size" the population to the world's ability to provide water, food, housing, employment, health care, etc.

In my mind this teacher is in fact one of the most immoral people on the planet.

 

mythology

(9,527 posts)
22. I don't even know what to say about something like that
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 06:45 PM
Feb 2013

There should be a limit to how much stupid one person can have because clearly she has way too much.

ismnotwasm

(41,998 posts)
25. What an ass
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 06:51 PM
Feb 2013
“Homosexual students come to me with their problems, and I don’t agree with them, but I care about them. It’s the same thing with my special needs kids, I think God puts everyone in our lives for a reason,” said Madley.

“‘So the same goes for gays? Do you think they have a purpose in life?’ No I honestly don’t. Sorry, but I don’t. I don’t understand it. A gay person isn’t going to come up and make some change unless it’s to realize that it was a choice and they’re chosing [sic] God,” said Medley.



So, she actually thinks she's a superior human being. I smell hateful bigot crazy person who needs to be fired yesterday and not allowed to teach anybody, cause that's just weird.

tblue

(16,350 posts)
30. She believes this is her ticket into heaven. Send me where the gay folks go.
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 07:03 PM
Feb 2013

Who would even want to go to her heaven?

ismnotwasm

(41,998 posts)
36. No shit
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 09:51 PM
Feb 2013

That reminds me of a little bit of Huckleberry Finn, lol



Now she had got a start, and she went on and told me all about the good place. She said all a body would have to do there was to go around all day long with a harp and sing, forever and ever. So I didn't think much of it. But I never said so. I asked her if she reckoned Tom Sawyer would go there, and she said not by a considerable sight. I was glad about that, because I wanted him and me to be together. (1.7)
 

LittleBlue

(10,362 posts)
32. Gays have no purpose in life due to no children?
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 07:16 PM
Feb 2013

What about people who are infertile, do they also have no purpose in life? What if they adopt?

It's really tiresome hearing this old nonsense. Gay couples can adopt and have an influence that will last generations, just like straight couples who choose to adopt instead of having kids biologically.

Rude, insensitive, homophobic and most importantly wrong.

MH1

(17,600 posts)
35. That was my take on her meaning.
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 09:46 PM
Feb 2013

Not only vile, but lacking perspective on the diversity of humanity.

Oilwellian

(12,647 posts)
37. An interesting reply at your link
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 10:54 PM
Feb 2013

This woman needs to be fired. Schools are an extension of GOVERNMENT. The purpose of schools is to provide the United States with citizens and workers. Religion has no place in our school system. By stating that GAY students have no purpose in life she has violated the teachers code of conduct. Everyone should call the State of Indiana Board of Education and ask to speak with their Division of Professional Standards and make a complaint. (317) 232-9010 is the phone number. Press O for an operator and ask to speak with the Division of Professional Standards to make a complaint. I just got off the phone and lodged mine.

She has proven by her statements that she is not an advocate for all of the student body therefore needs to be dismissed.

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