Missouri Bus Driver Fired For Telling Little Girl She's Gay And Will Burn In Hell

[workinclasszero]

Missouri Bus Driver Fired For Telling Little Girl She's Gay And Will Burn In Hell

The Huffington Post | By Sebastian Murdock
Posted: 05/19/2015 11:12 am EDT Updated: 05/19/2015 11:59 am EDT

A little girl couldn't help but cry while recounting the story of a bus driver who told her she was gay and would burn in hell.

Maurissa Rushing, 11, was riding the bus to school in Kansas City, Missouri, when she was confronted by the driver, Fox4KC reports.

According to the fifth-grader, she was playing a game with her friend that involved touching each other's arms. This was apparently too intimate for the driver, who brought the girls to the back of the bus after dropping off other students. The driver then said the two girls were gay.

“She said that we are gonna burn in hell real bad," Maurissa told the station. "I didn’t expect it to happen."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/19/bus-driver-gay-hell_n_7313694.html

[brooklynite]

1. But what if those were "deeply held religious beliefs"?

[workinclasszero]

4. Right

I assume the bus drivers hate speech would either be protected and/or she could sue the school, the bus company and possibly the little girls parents as well for restricting her hateful freedom of religion!

[Daemonaquila]

6. And this is why we have to FIGHT that crap.

"Deeply held religious beliefs" have no place in harming others in a civil society. We have to take the gloves off and let this excuse make no inroads.

[Bonx]

11. Exactly. Those girls pushed the driver over the edge

with their behavior.
I don't condone the bus drivers response, but I understand it.
(or some horseshit like that)

[whatthehey]

14. Come now, religion had nothing to do with this

The driver threatened the kid with Hell, a religious concept, for the (wildly inferred) sin of homosexuality because

a) mental illness
b) political expression just coincidentally couched in religious terms, purely by random chance, could just as easily have threatened her with, say, the Siberian gulags because religion is, obviously, coincidental to homophobia and threats of Hell...
c) lack of social and family support systems.


Because religion can never actually cause bigotry or misanthropy or in-group out-group emnity or anything like that at all. It's all kumbaya singing and social liberalism no matter what those other Christians say - they are not REAL Christians® after all, not like MLK or Spong. They are just "Christians" who are nothing to do with religion whatsoever, nosirree.

[Oktober]

2. Good...

[workinclasszero]

3. Jeb Bush and all other republicans are fighting to protect

insane bigots like this bus driver with "freedom of religion" teahaddist sharia laws.

[HassleCat]

5. Not Just the Discrimination Thing

That guy is dangerous, if he thinks two girls touching each others' arms indicates lesbian tendencies. If they get a search warrant for his computer, I bet they find all sorts of interesting things.

[hunter]

10. It strikes me as really creepy too.

There's something worse than religious bigotry going on in that guy's head.

[cwydro]

12. It was a female driver.

It's in the link.

[HassleCat]

16. Oh, my!

Can't decide if that's more or less creepy. Still creepy, though.

[Warpy]

7. Some people should never be allowed near children

and religious nuts who think they are qualified to send children to hell top the list.

They'd better have fired this sanctimonious sack of shit.

[lpbk2713]

8. Just drive the fuggen bus.

And leave life's lessons to others who know what they're talking about.

[bullwinkle428]

9. People like this live for being in positions of power and control over children

BECAUSE they get off on power and control, and children are obviously way more easily intimidated than any adult would be.

I hope this termination is a lesson to all of the other assholes out like this bus driver, but that's probably far too optimistic of me.

[cwydro]

15. I've driven a school bus.

Believe me, it is NOT a position of power.

That being said, the woman definitely deserved to be fired.

[BeeBee]

13. What a sick bastard. n/t

[Initech]

17. Oh well, she'll do fine being a Fox News correspondent.