The Clint McCance Episode

Clint McCance. A name that will FOREVER make my blood boil. As one facebook user describes him, he is the "hillbilly jerk" that was determined to use both his voice as the elected vice president of an Eastern Arkansas school board and his facebook page to express a little bit more than distaste for the recent nationwide tribute to the five suicides of bullied queer high school students in the form of wearing purple.

To illustrate exactly the flame that is currently making the blood of this Angry Homosexist boil, let me just pull some of the quotes posted by this respected member of his community: "Seriously they want me to wear purple because five queers committed suicide. The only way I'm wearin' it for them is if they all commit suicide... I can't believe the people of this world have gotten this stupid. We are honoring the fact that they sinned and killed themselves because of their sin."

That was basically McCance calling down the shitstorm that he inevitably recieved. He was eventually interrogated by a genuinely puzzled and bewondered Anderson Cooper, who was in awe at what exactly the mechanics were that were at work when McCance made the conscious decision to not only formulate such an abjectly derogatory opinion, but also to publicize it in the attempt to facilitate to development of more anti-homosexual sentiment--the same kind that lead to the tragic (to say the least) suicides that sparked the memorial in the first place.

But this is not what is grinding my gears alone. I would not return to my blog after a 5 month hiatus just for one dumb-ass piece of self-righteous trash. What truly SICKENS me is the support that he is getting from people all over the internet. There is a facebook page... actually, here's the link:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Do-NOT-fire-Clint-McCance/128621650526071

"Do not fire Clint McCance" is there battle cry. Clint McCance supporters unite to voice their own dissent of homosexual proclivity as it naturally occurs. Users summoning text from THE BIBLE to breathe life into their hatred. Some people who posted even tried to work some gay conversion therapy magic in there. Again, being (notice I said BEING) a queer person was repeatedly condemned as a sin (in line with the thought of McCance) and that there is no reconciliation with an immutable preference built into one's being and a relationship with God.

At this point, I can only direct a fiery tirade to all those Clint McCance supporters out there, or those who, while not agreeing with his words and violent directives still use this as an opportuinity to condemn, not a lifestyle but a life...

This entire ordeal has made me more proclive to hate straight people. I'm already heterophobic--unable to trust heterosexuals as readily. But the words I saw on that facebook wall have burned into my mind and I can so easily say that I HATE straight folk. What if I did that? I hate Straight, White Conservative, Upper-middle class, American, English-speaking Christians. ALL of them. YOUR PEOPLE shit on the planet, strip the environment of it's resources, kill indigenous tribes with such ease that I'm conviced that it is just in your nature to destroy people of color. You erect shambles to encage your fellow earthlings and breed life just to destroy it in mass numbers, carving the flesh of millions on your carefully crafted overpriced dinnerware from mega-stores that are driving humble local business into the ground and creating slaveries across the globe in countries that "don't count." And then you have the nerve to stick your nose into a clean, leatherbound book to justify your thirst for the blood of God's creatures and God's children who are unable to love the same way you do. Who experience the same kinds of sexual urges you do (and you know you do) in just a different way. You look into a book written by other straight, white males in the past and IGNORE where it says that we are ALL (straight, gay, colored, white, American or from countries that don't count, human or animal) "fearfully and wonderfully made." A book so rife with interested, politically informent mistranslated that God doesn't even know where (esp. in the Old Testament) we get half this stuff from. You use that book to justify polluting the enivronment to transport yourselves to someone else's country to coloni--I mean, Christianize them, assimilate them and purge them of their "sin."

What if I were to say something like that? Fortunately, I am sober enough (barely, but my anger is not SO blinding) that i recognize that heterosexist does not equal heterosexual. Clint McCance, I thank you. You brought out the true ignorances in people. You reminded why I am... the Angry Homosexist.

--TAHS