Valedictorian comes out during graduation speech at high school in Colorado

Fox News ^ | 06.02.2015 | AP via Fox News

[dware]

DENVER – A high school valedictorian received a standing ovation when she came out as gay during her graduation speech in her Colorado mountain town, in contrast to the treatment received by a Boulder-area top student who was banned from making a similar affirmation.

[TexasFreeper2009]

why would any clap because someone revealed they have a mental illness?

would they clap if she revealed she had become handicapped?

[BerniesFriend]

"My fellow high school graduates, I stand before you today to announce something that will shock many of you..I stand before you as a heterosexual male.(audience boos) I plan on courting a person of the opposite sex, a true female, not one butchered to try to become one. (audience boos louder, throws tomatoes) I will first marry and then, God willing, impregnate her and raise a family to be also hetero. (audience screaming obscenities) I know that is not a popular life choice, but it is a choice I have made. Thank you and may God Bless everyone of you!" (audience members jump on stage with machete knives, chase valedictorian off stage)

[WayneS]

Look at me!

LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

[Buckeye McFrog]

But now, it seems that it is actually a positive or cool thing to be gay. We’re not just tolerating homosexuality, we are actually celebrating it. When exactly did this happen???

Have you been paying any attention to TV or movies over the past twenty years? Thank the parents who used to let their tweens watch Will and Grace

[Milton Miteybad]

"I'm not just gay. I'm not just smart. No one is. No label is big enough to hold an entire person," Bruell said in her weekend speech in Carbondale, the full text of which was posted on the Web site of a local newspaper, The Post Independent.

If you were REALLY smart, Madame, you would have realized that the interest in your sexuality on the part of the public at large is vanishingly small. In fact, the overwhelmingly majority of people would prefer not to be burdened with your self-absorbed navel-gazing.

Just thought you'd like to know the facts before you repeat this error in judgment.

[nickcarraway]

In today’s world, why was someone “in the closet” to begin with? It’s only considered a positove. I’m sure some straight students pretend to be gay.

[odawg]

“A high school valedictorian received a standing ovation when she came out as gay during her graduation speech...”

Collective derangement, brainwashing. Very alarming.

[GSWarrior]

Or change its mascot!

We used to play basketball against Roaring Fork when I was on my HS team.

[The people have spoken]

When exactly did it become cool to be gay???

Certainly it was after I was in high school (1960s), at which time you would be accused of being queer (I don't think the term "gay" had come into vogue yet) if you wore green on a Thursday.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Why did this student need to make this proclamation? Does anybody care?

[sport]

I don’t.

[SharpRightTurn]

Another day, another drama queen.

[Let's Roll]

I could handle tolerance but celebrating - nope.

[Kickass Conservative]

Did she lick a Pink Taco in the middle of her Speech?

[TexasCajun]

She's homosexual! ...everyone giver her a big round of applause!

[SZonian]

So the little lesbian whelp decides it’s perfectly appropriate for her to hijack the commencement exercises of all her fellow seniors...

Pathetic attention whores...so damned sick of ‘em.

[Polyxene]

“I’m getting so sick of this crap.”

Me, too. BUT, let a valedictorian get up and proclaim the Word of God, and hear the ACLU/RAT/Commie crowd raise all manner of hades!

[fwdude]

Being “gay” is just popular now. That’s all this means.

[RightOnTheBorder]

Carbondale is full of all the leftist a-holes too poor to live in Aspen. Lots of grey pony tails and “Hillary!” stickers adorning Subaru wagons. The bravest thing a valedictorian could do in that town is out himself as a Christian. As for this special little snowflake, I bet the city names a street after her.

[jobim]

Homosexuality is the sensual manifestation of narcissism. Dr. Jobim, PhD