My letter to Midland School Board member Clint McCance:
Mr. McCance -
I am writing to encourage you to resign. Regardless of your religious views on homosexuality and sin, it is an unequivocally heinous, evil thing to encourage any young person to commit suicide for any reason. Teenagers across the United States, gay and straight alike, have been deeply hurt by your words, and by the idea that a school board member anywhere in this country could consider it acceptable to be so hateful toward the students he is supposed to support and represent. As I'm sure you well know, gay and lesbian teens are already vulnerable to bullying and their rates of suicide are much higher than other groups of young people.
I am the director of a nonprofit organization that supports gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth in rural Arizona. My husband and I have long been passionate about supporting this demographic of young people because they are so vulnerable to higher rates of drug use, teen pregnancy and suicide. They are so often rejected by their families, friends and communities of faith. It is imperative that these kids are safe at school. You have failed to promote safe schools, and have therefor jeopardized all the youth in your district. I hope you will do the right thing by apologizing and stepping down. Young people across America are looking to you now; this would be an excellent time for you to model the religious values of love and reconciliation.
Thank you in advance for setting an example of righteousness by courageously choosing to apologize and resign.
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Serah Blain
Executive Director
QsquaredYouth, Inc.
“People of Faith” : Language Strategies
2 hours ago
2 comments:
Resign? How about fired?
Unfortunately, as an elected school board member, he cannot be fired. I believe his term is through 2014. The options for removing him before he is up for reelection would be for him to resign, or be recalled by the voters (and recall elections tend to be lengthy, difficult and expensive processes).
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