Religious Oregon teens wear ‘Gay Is Not OK’ shirts to school to protest lack of ‘straight day’

[DonViejo]

By Eric W. Dolan
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 9:28 EDT



A small group of Oregon teens have provoked controversy by wearing shirts that read “Gay Is Not OK” and “Gay Day Is Not OK” to their high school.

“I just made it say ‘Gay Day is not OK,’ because I don’t believe that it’s OK,” Oregon City High School student Alex Borho told KPTV.

Borho and some of his friends wore the shirts to school during the National Day of Silence on April 11. The event is intended to bring attention to bullying and harassment targeting gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people.

“I don’t have a big problem with gay people. It’s just when they start parading around the school about how we have a day of silence for gays, lesbians and transvestites,” Borho told KPTV. “We don’t have a straight day.”

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[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Forehead slap.

Until there's true equality, EVERY day is 'straight day', you doofuses.

Nothing like deliberately trying to be a bully and harass people on the one day a year set aside to bring attention to bullying and harassment...

[siligut]

4. Poor kid fell for the misinformation designed to make the privileged class feel persecuted.

Though his Stockholm syndrome is a detriment to progress, he is another victim of the PTB as well, he just doesn't know it.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

5. I guess it would be too much to ask

that the reporters talking to him ask him how often he gets bullied or harassed for being straight.

[siligut]

12. Their hubris is similar to that of the rancher Clive Bundy

I agree, that would have been a great question. This looks like personal power derived from group strength through religion. I doubt few high-school students, not in agreement, have enough back-up to harass these religions minions. Maybe Ian Parker takes it for granted that minorities know better than to invite trouble from obvious sources. Or maybe he realizes he wouldn't even get a straight answer from these anti-gay crusaders who approached him with their story. They are so eager and bold to share their prejudice, but the one kid had his face blurred out, have to wonder if his father is prominent in the community or something.

[arcane1]

17. Reminds me of "why isn't there a white history month?"

[bullwinkle428]

2. Maybe they can go to the next "Miss Black America" pageant and

protest that there's not a "Miss White America" pageant.

[Rex]

3. I see life goes right over these kid's heads.

They don't recognize 'straight day', because it is almost every day at their school.

[NightWatcher]

6. They hate when people "parade around" and push their agenda...like wearing hateful shirts?

You want to have "straight day"? Nail your gf/bf in the closet in the band room like the rest of us did.

[Rex]

8. I thought that was some simple irony that passed them by.

So now they are going to parade around in their hateful shirts, but not to get attention or anything...

[KamaAina]

7. They have plenty of straight days.

From the beginning of the school year to April 10, and from the 14th until the end of the school year.

[Orrex]

9. There was a gay parade? Sweet! Those are usually awesome!

As far as I'm concerned, this knucklehead can celebrate "straight day" in silence 365 days per year.

[leftyohiolib]

20. now there's some tolerance

[Orrex]

21. Oh please.

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First, I think that my deliberate hyperbole was unmistakably clear.

Second, even if I were completely serious, "tolerance" is under no obligation to tolerate intolerance. A thing can not be required to accommodate its incompatible opposite, nor can it be required to be universal and comprehensive.

[backscatter712]

22. Damned right I'm intolerant of bigotry.

We don't have to be tolerant of the intolerant. In fact, we shouldn't.

RationalWiki explains it best.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tolerance

Paradox of Tolerance

"The paradox of tolerance" refers to the act of being intolerant of intolerance. It is a term generally used by opponents of pluralism to criticize advocates of toleration. The argument goes something like this:

1. Tolerance means accepting others with differing views/lifestyles/shoe sizes


2. Some people do not accept others with differing views/lifestyles/shoe sizes


3. Those people are intolerant


4. Not accepting intolerant people is itself intolerant


5. Therefore, tolerance is impossible

This argument is total, unmitigated bullshit. Here's why: This assumes that totally uncritical tolerance is desirable. There's a distinction between being tolerant and blind moral relativism, and it is perfectly reasonable to say that it is not desirable to be perfectly tolerant of every single thing. Extremism rarely bodes well for anybody.

Karl Popper explains it quite well actually:

Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them...We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

That little shit wearing that bigoted shirt should have his teeth knocked so far down his throat that he chews his own ass out.

[Sheldon Cooper]

24. lol

[UtahLib]

10. Ignorant child, more than likely, born to ignorant parents. nt

[Bigmack]

11. This bunch of kids...

... makes it easier to understand what teachers face.

These little turds didn't fall far from the assholes that squeezed them out.

Imagine trying to teach evolution or climate science to these kids.

[siligut]

14. Good point, high school students are tough enough to educate

They think they are so smart, but have so much to learn. Trying to teach this bunch must be disheartening and intimidating at the same time due to the overt show of power institutionalized religion is showing on an increasing level.

[Arugula Latte]

13. This could follow this kid for years.

A potential employer Googles his name ... Well, what do we have here? The miserable little shit is a homophobe. Next!

[siligut]

15. It probably will, however he is a member of a privileged group who share his prejudice

And there is a subtle but perceivable push to reduce the number of liberal employers.

How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations:



https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/

[backscatter712]

23. Good. That's what bigots deserve. n/t

[alp227]

16. The best way to shame these kids? LET EM WEAR THE SHIRTS.

I think school administrators should let these fundie students drown under their own shame rather than turning them into right wing media martyrs via formal discipline, since their stupid message is going to be out-numbered by the tolerant students on the right side of history.

[Lex]

18. Look around. Every day is straight day.

What a pathetic bunch.

[benld74]

19. Do they get any points for Stupid Day?