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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,234 posts) Mon Oct 21, 2013, 07:41 PM Oct 2013

GOP lawmaker calls book fair a ‘failure’ over student’s pro-LGBT T-shirt

Republican Missouri state Representative Kevin Elmer has deemed a high school book fair a “failure” after he discovered one teenage student was wearing a T-shirt supportive of LGBT rights.

According to The Springfield News-Leader, Elmer tweeted a photograph of the girl wearing a Gay-Straight Alliance T-shirt that had the word “harmony” on it.

“Nixa Schools failure. HS students working elementary school book fair in gay t-shirts,” Elmer wrote. The lawmaker later deleted the tweet.

“I just think it’s inappropriate to be promoting any sexual relationship in an elementary school, whether it’s heterosexual or homosexual,” he explained to the News-Leader. “It’s not a gay rights issue, it’s a parental issue.”

You have to click on the link to see the shirt since it's in a video format that can't be embedded here. The shirt promotes tolerance not sexuality.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/21/gop-lawmaker-calls-book-fair-a-failure-over-students-pro-lgbt-t-shirt/

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GOP lawmaker calls book fair a ‘failure’ over student’s pro-LGBT T-shirt (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2013 OP

It must be exhausting to be a bigoted Republican who is outraged by so many aspects of modern life. LonePirate Oct 2013 #1

He's scared of happy, peaceful people shenmue Oct 2013 #2

No kid would have seen those shirts and thought about anything but xfundy Oct 2013 #3

And I'll bet none of the school administrators (or the representative) Ms. Toad Oct 2013 #4

LonePirate

(13,431 posts)

1. It must be exhausting to be a bigoted Republican who is outraged by so many aspects of modern life.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2013, 08:11 PM

Oct 2013

Thank goodness we see and appreciate the world as is around here.

shenmue

(38,506 posts)

2. He's scared of happy, peaceful people

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2013, 08:36 PM

Oct 2013

How sad.

xfundy

(5,105 posts)

3. No kid would have seen those shirts and thought about anything but

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2013, 08:56 PM

Oct 2013

people together, linking hands or arms on shoulders. Harmony. Funny, that seems to be a vital part of society, or it did till the baggers and other repigs started trying to tear it down.

Ms. Toad

(34,102 posts)

4. And I'll bet none of the school administrators (or the representative)

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2013, 09:36 PM

Oct 2013

have any pictures of their husbands on their desks/walls advertising their sex lives (reference to the article).

(The same response I made to my daughter's vice principal when he threatened to suspend one of her friends for a shirt suggesting she had a girlfriend.)

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