Pa. high schoolers dress up for 'Anti-Gay Day'

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pa-high-schoolers-dress-up-for-anti-gay-day/ar-AAbs2qE

A band of Pennsylvania high schoolers in matching flannel shirts slapped hateful posters on gay students’ lockers and drafted a “lynch list” to mark their self-concocted “Anti-Gay Day,” students said.

As many as 100 students at Claysville’s McGuffey High School took part in the Thursday protest a day after the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance held its Day of Silence. GSA’s day was organized to draw attention to and condemn bulling against gay students, according to the Observer-Reporter.

The homophobic students, mostly boys, wore flannel shirts on the same day and wrote “anti-gay” and drew crosses on the backs of their hands. The group stuck intimidating posters on gay students’ lockers and scuffled with Gay-Straight Alliance members and their supporters, student Zoe Johnson told WPXI.

“Yesterday, there was pushing, posters hung on homosexual students’ lockers. Teachers were having to run out and take them down,” she said.

[RKP5637]

1. What absolutely gross bigoted asshole bullies we have in society. I also think this trait will

carry over into all types abuse in life, for example, domestic abuse. These, are sick individuals showing their colors now.

[bullwinkle428]

2. One report stated that they actually were physically pushing some of the

LGBT and gay-straight alliance kids around. For sure, these are the future wife-beaters of America.

[TexasTowelie]

3. I thought that plaid flannel shirts

were part of the code for gay bears. Did they have color-coordinating hankies?

[NYC_SKP]

4. Austin7007

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--c8aluQbi--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_320/l7t2mbtqlkkqqqxreasv.jpg

[msanthrope]

5. That picture does not convey what they think it conveys. nt

[Feron]

12. They're lumberjacks and that's okay. nt

[sufrommich]

15. DUzy. nt

[Tree-Hugger]

6. .......

I will not judge based on looks. I will not judge based on looks. I will not judge based on looks.

[procon]

7. Where was the school administration while all this was going on? nt

[appalachiablue]

13. +10

[Amishman]

25. if they are like the school administration in my part of PA, looking away and thinking of retirement

The public schools in my part of PA are laden with older, burnt out faculty who do as little as possible while counting down the last few years before they can retire with full benefits.

Our schools desperately need change and new blood, but administration smothers new teachers. I personally know two individuals who quit during their first year as a teacher due to conflicts with the school admin. The schools did not approve of their teaching methods... methods that were taught and encouraged by my friends' college professors.

[beam me up scottie]

8. At night and on weekends they wear white sheets with pointy hoods.

To fit over their pointy little heads.

[damnedifIknow]

9. They will so regret this when older and more mature

They will think of how stupid and childish this type of behavior truly is.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

10. Or they will run for GOP office if they don't grow up.

[Saphire]

24. doubt it. they learned from their older more

mature parents, im sure.

[TacoD]

28. At least one of their parents is publicly defending them

http://www.observer-reporter.com/article/20150420/NEWS01/150429973

[msongs]

11. deliberate hate. if they wanted to be self affirming they would have have hetero day nt

[LeftinOH]

14. If memory serves, EVERY day in H.S. was "anti-gay day"....

...so it's unclear what these assholes are trying to prove.

And let's revisit them 10, 20, and 30 years from now to see how horrified they are about what they were doing.

[MineralMan]

16. Dumbass teenagers. It's endemic.

I hope they were suspended from school for their sick nonsense, but they'd probably consider that to be a gift.

I'm sure they'll enjoy their janitorial careers.

[sufrommich]

17. I'd be willing to bet that these dumbass teenagers reflect

the opinions of their dumbass parents.

I spent the good part of my career supervising janitors,why the diss?

[MineralMan]

18. OK, how about assistant managers at McDonalds?

And yes, they do reflect their dumbass parents.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

20. Why the need to tie people's bigotry to a person's station in life?

I'm sure there are plenty of perfectly good people who work at McDonalds.

It's not a very liberal thing to do to sneer at people's jobs.

[Saphire]

26. thanks...I'm a janitor and was abt to respond, too.

i happen to quite like my lowly job.

[geek tragedy]

22. Rich brats can be racist trash too--see, e.g., the Oklahoma frat boy song nt

[maxrandb]

30. Hard to tell the "Dumbass Teenagers"

from the Majority Party in Washington and most of the States....but...I guess there's NO FUCKING DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE PARTIES

[PCIntern]

19. THAT'S MY STATE! I'M JUST SO PROUD!!

...just in case...

[Orrex]

23. Yeah, same here.

[ProfessorGAC]

21. I Keep Hearing How Younger Folks Are Far More Accepting of Gay Lifestyles

What happened to these troglodytes? I don't think i'm reaching by saying they have to be young. They're still in HS.

[yellowcanine]

27. "matching flannel shirts" Sounds a little gay-ish to me.

[Iggo]

29. A "lynch list"?

That's a crime, right?

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

31. We just need to be tolerant of their beliefs.

That's what the right wants.