Rep. Cunningham: gay students painful to look at, doesn't understand why they don't hate themselves

Piercings painful for Rep. Jane Cunningham to observe - so she asks students to leave her office

State Rep. Jane Cunningham of Chesterfield is coming under fire for her alleged shabby treatment of gay and lesbian students who were in the Capitol last week to lobby for an anti-bullying bill. According to the students, 16-year-old Desiree Bain and 19-year-old Austyn Langston, they were kicked out of Cunningham’s office because of their appearance.

Both Bain, a lesbian, and Langston, a bisexual, have multiple piercings. Langston also has purple hair. “We were polite,” Bain says. “We were introducing ourselves and in the middle of saying my name and she told us to get out.

She told us we were making her physically ill to look at. She said she didnt understand why we didn’t hate ourselves.” Cunningham said today that she doesn’t deny asking the students to leave. And she admits that she found “their appearance very painful to look at.” See Piercings painful for Rep. Jane Cunningham

More:
http://gay_blog.blogspot.com/2008/04/piercings-painful-for-rep-jane.html

I would suggest that Rep. Cunningham might want to get out a little more.

She appears clueless to the scene at hand and to the broader point as well.

No way a state legislator, a Repub or a Dem should treat kids like that.

Hawkeye-X

Asshole state reps make me physically ill.

her assessment of their appearance.

Nasty shit face.

She probably throws up whenever she looks at herself in the mirror.

These kids should be commended for their bravery and initiative. Instead this piece of shit Cunningham treats them like the schoolyard bully would. She's the lowest of the low, a true piece of utter garbage. To treat a 16 year old kid like this? This gets me so angry I could chew fucking rocks.

I hope I get to meet this Cunningham some day, I've got some comments about her appearance that I will not keep to myself.

That Rep Cunningham has pierced ears..

The entire difference between her and the students she kicked out being one of degree and not of kind.

then so is mine.

Cunningham is also the sponsor of the Emily Brooker Intellectual Diversity Act which aims to hold universities accountable for allowing students to hold diverse opinions.

http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/political-fix/political-fix/2008/04/piercings-painful-for-rep-jane-cunningham/

This woman has no business representing anyone.

what an utterly despicable act by an evidently despicable excuse for a human being. But not as despicable as every single person that votes for people like her to represent them.

I sent the reporter the tip on this issue. . .:-).

Both either is stupid of course, but one is a mite worse than the other. To me at least.