Posted on 10/07/2010 6:55:16 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Gay groups and women's group are calling on Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) to apologize for comments he made Friday about who should and shouldn't be in classrooms.
At a 2004 debate, DeMint declared that openly gay people should not be teaching public school. "We need the folks that are teaching in schools to represent our values," he said. DeMint later added that he "would have given the same answer when asked if a single woman, who was pregnant and living with her boyfriend, should be hired to teach my third grade children."
At the time, the Senate candidate apologized: "[S]ometimes my heart disengages from my head and I say something I shouldn't - and that's what happened yesterday. I clearly said something as a dad that I just shouldn't have said. And I apologize." His campaign manager added that DeMint was raised by a single mother and was not opposed to unwed mothers teaching.
But last week, DeMint said that he had been privately encouraged by reaction to his words.
"[N]o one came to my defense," he said at at a rally. "But everyone would come to me and whisper that I shouldn't back down. They don't want government purging their rights and their freedom to religion."
Jimmy LaSalvia of the gay Republican group GOProud told CBS News that he saw DeMint's comment as a reaffirmation of his original statement -- that gays and unwed mothers should not be allowed to teach children. "I don't know anybody in 2010 who thinks that," he said.
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I'm not old enough to remember, as an adult, times when they weren't, so I have to rely on the testimony of those old enough to convey the zeitgeist of those times.
Sure! Let’s allow every disgusting perv to teach in our classrooms! Musn’t hurt feelings,you know.How about necrophiliacs? They are truly disgusting and sick in the head! They’d make great teachers,you know.
Especially in high school, where they can teach the living dead (bored, sleepy teenagers).
I can’t believe there are people who are so sick that they’d have sex with a deceased person. It boggles my mind.Blech.
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