HATEWATCH: Unmasking the Radical Right (investigative magazine by The Southern Poverty Law Center)

Watchmen Founder Wants High School Teachers Fired
February 21, 2008

A founder of <1> Watchmen on the Walls, an international organization that is ferociously anti-gay, isn’t who Hatewatch would choose to speak at an MLK day event. But that’s what happened on Jan. 17, when the Rev. Ken Hutcherson spoke at Mt. Si High School in Snoqualmie, Wash.

At the student-planned assembly, Hutcherson, founder of a Seattle-area megachurch, was booed by English teacher George Potratz. Kit McCormick, an adviser for the school’s Gay/Straight Alliance club, asked Hutcherson how he could admire Dr. King but fight against civil rights for homosexuals. “I think her deal was that I don’t believe in equal rights for everybody,” Hutcherson told a reporter later. During his speech, Hutcherson talked about growing up as a black man in the South.

Last week, school principal Randy Taylor <2> disciplined the teachers for their actions with a letter that will be included in their personnel files. But for Hutcherson, that’s not enough. He told the American Family Association that he wants the teachers fired.

The reverend, who refers to the school’s Gay/Straight Alliance as <3> “a sex club,” wrote, “It’s time we wake up and realize we are in a culture WAR!” He claims the questions and boos from the two teachers embarrassed him; Hutcherson’s daughter is a student in one of Potratz’s classes.

Declarations of war are nothing new for Watchmen members. In one of the group’s videos, a Watchman activist puts it <4> like this: “Your generation beat the Nazis, and our country beat the Communists. Together we will defeat the homosexuals!”

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that someone would spread hate and lies like that Hutcherson.

The culture of constitutional liberties vs the culture of hate and ignorance. My money is on the liberties side, my side. Wow, he wants the AFA to get the teachers fired. I bet that has em shaking in their boots.

I suggest Mr. Taylor formally apologize to the teachers, staff and students, and look into disciplining those responsible for Rev. Hutcherson's appearance.

and some mandatory time spent on the principles undergirding the Constitution and Bill of Rights would be in order, as well.

seems to be "Free speech for me...and nobody else." That principal must be a real piece of work, too...hey, way to stand up for the Bill of Rights, loser.

Criminals....

If this upsets you, and you still don't get why 'some people' are angry about McClurkin and Caldwell being part of a Democratic campaign, you simply don't know enough about McClurkin and Caldwell, or you are blinded by some other affliction.