Fla. town backs ex-principal who got demoted (pervy principal lifted girls' shirts)

Newsday ^ | 8/20/08 | Melissa Nelson

[steve-b]

...The problems began last fall when [principal David] Davis, who did not return phone messages from The Associated Press, admonished the senior, who is identified only as "Jane Doe" in court records and whose friends say she doesn't want to talk about the experience.

The friends donned gay pride T-shirts and rainbow-colored clothing when they found out how Davis had treated her, and he questioned many of them about their sexuality and association with gay students. Some were suspended.

"Davis embarked on what can only be characterized as a 'witch hunt' to identify students who were homosexual and their supporters, further adding fuel to the fire," U.S. District Judge Richard Smoak recounted in his ruling. "He went so far as to lift the shirts of female students to insure the letters 'GP' or the words 'Gay Pride' were not written on their bodies."...

[Psycho_Bunny]

Why he hasn’t been fired is beyond me.

[pipecorp]

Ahhh..public education at its finest.

[steve-b]

Apparently, he was able to bamboozle people into thinking that his ogling teenage girls was somehow protecting them against catching Teh Lezz, or something.

[Defiant]

From the article:

"I think a shirt that says 'I support gays' is very different from a shirt that says 'Gays are going to hell,'" said Benjamin Stevenson, an ACLU attorney. "One can be very disruptive for a child's self-esteem; the other supports other people and their ideas."

Isn't the former shirt disruptive for Christians and their self-esteem? Or is it impossible for an ACLU fascist to understand that?

[Clintonfatigued]

“He went so far as to lift the shirts of female students to insure the letters ‘GP’ or the words ‘Gay Pride’ were not written on their bodies.”

Oh, SURE his motives for lifting the girls’ blouses was innocent! And I was born yesterday.

[steve-b]

Oh, SURE his motives for lifting the girls’ blouses was innocent! And I was born yesterday.

The irony is -- if a teenage girl has this sort of experience with a (male) sleazoid, do you think she is going to be a)more or b)less likely to turn to lesbianism?

[George from New England]

Why are some so quick to “believe” any of the statements made herein?

[Clintonfatigued]

Good point. Some women who are abused or exploited by men in that manner do turn lesbian for that reason.

[olezip]

"Davis embarked on what can only be characterized as a 'witch hunt' to identify students who were homosexual and their supporters, further adding fuel to the fire," U.S. District Judge Richard Smoak recounted in his ruling. "He went so far as to lift the shirts of female students to insure the letters 'GP' or the words 'Gay Pride' were not written on their bodies."...

I suspect that the charges are highly exaggerated for effect. Given that the town supports Davis, I would look into the basis of that support. I suspect that the town knows better.

[yarddog]

I wonder just how accurate this story is after reading that Holmes County was on the Georgia state line. It is one the Alabama state line.

[Blood of Tyrants]

"I think a shirt that says 'I support gays' is very different from a shirt that says 'Gays are going to hell,"

Apparently the "right" to publicly air your personal sexual perversions, which appear nowhere in the Constitution, trump freedom of speech and religion, which are in the very FIRST Amendment.

[Blood of Tyrants]

"What happens when these kids get out in the real world after they leave Ponce de Leon and they have a black, homosexual supervisor at their job?"

Find another job?

[steve-b]

The real question is why Pervo the Shirt-Lifter doesn’t have to find another job, not less than 1000 yards from any school grounds on pain of arrest.

[airforceF4]

Have not seen where the princ lifted the shirts of guys at the high school. Oh noes—too gay! Had this occured in my town, all of us moms, bad moms, and FLMs [fat lil moms] would take a number and wait our turn. We would wait.

[steve-b]

Indeed. How this guy avoided going to jail, and can still eat solid food, passeth all understanding.

[dan1123]

Isn't the former shirt disruptive for Christians and their self-esteem? Or is it impossible for an ACLU fascist to understand that?

I think they get hung up on "I support". So how about a shirt that says "I support Fundamentalist Christians"? Or even more to the point, "I support Exodus International". That should blow a circuit.

[SoftballMominVA]

The man took a stand against the gay culture and he paid the price with his job. I don't agree with his lifting the girls shirts, but I do agree with his beliefs and admire him for standing up for them when he could have swept the whole thing under the rug, or come out for gays.

You may see it differently.....but he took a stand

[steve-b]

The man took a stand against the gay culture

Insofar as he practiced his deviant sexual predation on girls rather than boys. Color me unimpressed.

[SoftballMominVA]

There had to be a better way to handle what was going on than having a man lift girls shirts, I agree. Why do you think the girls put the words on their bodies? It was to lift and show other kids - so it is entirely possible that an adult saw the words and reported it in.

I’d like to have more detail as to what happened and when before I jumped on the side of the ACLU gay rights lobby.