Posted on 12/11/2017 9:37:06 AM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Principal Who Screamed at Pro-Life Teen: “I Don’t Give a S— What Jesus Says” Says His Life’s Been a Wreck Ever Since
Earlier this year and assistant principal at a Pennsylvania high school was caught on video yelling profanities at pro-life teenagers who are holding signs demonstrating against abortion.
The teenager, Conner Haines, was part of a Christian group called Project Frontlines that was hosting a “holocaust of abortion” display on the public sidewalks outside the school. The pro-lifers showed photos of aborted babies and other information to help educate the public about abortion.
Haines and his sister Lauren captured the incident with Ruff on video and posted it to YouTube. During various points in the 18-minute video, Ruff yelled at the teen, swore at him, threatened to call the police and told the teen to “go to Hell.”
At one point, Ruff told the teen: “I don’t give an (expletive) what Jesus tells me about what I should and should not be doing. You are harassing public school students and I will call the police if you don’t shut up.”
Dr. Zach Ruff, an assistant principal at Downingtown STEM Academy in Chester County, initially was placed on administrative leave in April after a video showed him yelling and swearing at a pro-life teenager who was protesting on the sidewalk outside the school. Eventually he resigned to the Downingtown Area School Board.
Now the former assistant principal says his life has been a wreck since the incident occurred and since his decision to quit his position at the high school.
During a two-hour interview, both teared up frequently, Ruff verging on sobs. He said he takes several medications, sees a therapist twice weekly, and rarely leaves the house without Logan. When they do go out, they eat out or shop in Delaware or Philadelphia so they don’t run into students or parents.
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Mostly, they want people to know that Ruff has suffered from anxiety and depression since he was a teenager growing up in Vermont, where, he said, he was abused at home, was hospitalized for two months after attempting suicide at 17, then set out on his own.
Ruff sent out 200 job applications last summer and had a few interviews — one potential employer ended up blocking his phone number, apparently after seeing the video — but worries he will never work in education again. “I didn’t want this to define me,” he said.
Although Ruff’s actions were clearly out of line, he is a human being who deserves forgiveness for what he did and restoration. Hopefully he feels true contrition for his actions and will be able to find a job where he can be a positive and supportive role model for others regardless of their viewpoints on abortion.
Not the end of the story.
He can’t have a different past, but he can have a different future.
Not the end of the story.
He can’t have a different past, but he can have a different future.
The life news article quotes another article (by the Philadelphia Enquirer Daily News) at length by importing a block of quoted text. That quoted text from the other article refers to “logan” who is mentioned earlier in the other article is the “husband.”
They are apparently both “husbands” of each other (ewww**2).
I'm having a hard time working up much sympathy for this guy. Who'd want this person having any influence over the education of their children? His behavior was out-of-line even if his views on abortion had been correct.
Actions have consequences. You're going to have to redeem yourself, provided you're really repentant (and I have my doubts). It takes time. Accept what you can get and work your way back up. Start by not being a butt and quit the self-indulgent sob stories. The fact that you've had over 200 job applications refused, tells me that you don't have good references from those that have worked with you. This incident is not probably that far out of character.
Well, it is unfortunate, but this is probably the only way to stop folks like him from attacking people like he did. There has to be examples made of people who do what this guy did, else others will run rampant.
JoMa
I agree.
If you click through to the original article, Logan is Ruff’s “husband”.
... he said AFTER he had gone berserk on a peaceful student legally protesting murder. Too late, bub.
"Ruff ... is a human being who deserves forgiveness for what he did and restoration.
I agree. He deserves forgiveness from God. But not from the people he victimized.
Hopefully he ... will be able to find a job where he can be a positive and supportive role model for others ...
No, hopefully he will be forever stained by this insane incident, and never again be allowed in a position of any authority over impressionable minds.
The pro-abort homosexuals all seem to identify with the abortion enthusiasts on the supposedly common theme that nobody can tell me what to so with my body, and your d*** or f****** religion has caused people like me misery for centuries because of your bigoted opposition to "choice".
The pro-life homosexuals usually say they are pro-life because everyone has a right to just go on living. Other themes include that if there really is a gay gene that can be detected prenatally, abortion would allow all gays to be wiped out before birth (like the Downs kids.)
Some pro-life lesbians also identify abortion as one of the concomitant evils of heterosexuality: a wounding experience you can avoid if you avoid PIV intercourse.
As Andrea Dworkin once said in a lucid moment: "Hell yeah, abortion is the solution --- to the liberal boy's problem."
His life is wreck?
Who can be responsible for this??????
Bravo to ‘red shirt dude’!
go smoke a sausage freak
Jesus makes the offer of forgiveness to those broken-hearted over their sin.
For us to say "Hey, I forgive you" at this point would most likely be heard as "Hey, no big deal." And that is cooperating with a corrupt conscience.
Actions >>> Consequences
Hope he's the first of many, many more to taste their own medicine.
Therapy? Meds? What a little p@ssy.
From another article...
‘talks about the day that it happened and the school district’s response, as he sits along side his husband, Ron Logan’
Attempting to give a damn...
Not really.
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I see it now. There was an article within the article. Thanks.
OK- can anyone explain why so many losers and fools go into education?
Harvey’s brother.
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