Principal Daphne Beasley Outs Gay Students
One of the young men, Nicholas, an 11th grader who just made the Dean's List, spoke with Eyewitness News Everywhere. "It was actually frightening," he says, "to see a list with my name on it where not just other teachers could see but students as well."
Nicholas says his teachers and other students treat him differently as a result of Principal Beasley's decision and that he and Andrew have both had to deal with verbal assaults. Nicholas was also not allowed to go on a trip to New Orleans to help rebuild homes because, as one of his teacher's explained, he would "embarrass" the school by engaging in gay affection.
"I really feel that my personal privacy was invaded," Nicholas says. "I mean, Principal Beasley called my mother and outed me to my mother!"
Source: Eyewitness News
So who went to New Orleans? A student who hadn't even applied for the chance. Clearly, gays can't be trusted to do community work and charity work because someone might learn that they are gay, thus leading to all sorts of problems — like perhaps learning that being gay isn't evil. Principal Daphne Beasley appears determined, though, to teach everyone in the community that homosexuality is evil. In my opinion, the only "evil" here resides in bigoted Christians like Deaphne Beasley, especially when they have been given a little power and then proceed to abuse it in order to oppress and harm groups they dislike.
Although "the list" was reserved for students who were believed to be couples, the gay students had been very careful to avoid revealing their relationship in school. They were only added on the basis of a rumor which Daphne Beasley heard from someone else — it doesn't sound like she even cared enough to ask them directly, though it certainly wouldn't have been any of her business.
Although the boys had never been observed by any school staff engaging in any sort of display of affection, the principal called Nicholas’s mother Nichole.
According to Nichole, the principal said things like “Did you know your son is gay?” repeatedly and went on to say that she didn’t like gay people and wouldn’t tolerate homosexuality at her school.
Both students say they’ve had to deal with verbal harassment from both teachers and students since word got out around the school about their principal’s actions.
Source: 365Gay
According to the ACLU, Principal Daphne Beasley ordered the two boys to not walk or study together. On what basis did she think she had the authority to give such an order? She certainly didn't do it in order to protect their safety — she only did it because the two boys are gay. She made it clear that she didn't like the idea of gays being together, so her decision and order had no more of a basis than her own petty bigotry.
What would have happened if Daphne Beasley had ordered the schools only two known Jewish students to not have contact with each other, and after saying that she didn't like Jews and wouldn't tolerate Judaism in her school? What would have happened if a white principle had ordered as school's only two black students not to associate with each other after saying that she didn't like blacks and wouldn't tolerate black culture in her school? The bigotry of such situations is obvious, and what Principal Daphne Beasley did was no less bigoted, hateful, immoral, and illegal.
Remember, though, that it's atheists in America who are really the intolerant ones when they dare to criticize religion generally or Christianity in particular for encouraging such bigotry. Atheists are wrong to focus on such situations, even though the attitudes expressed by Beasley are shared by large numbers of Christians. Instead, atheists are supposed to pretend that metaphorical forms of Christianity adhered to by a few academics and philosophers lacking any real-world influence is the only "true" Christianity.
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I hope that someone in Memphis is monitoring the situation to make sure that Beasley loses her job and is sued for civil rights violations.
I vote for a simple name change to Principal Beastly.
Is what she’s doing even legal?
A better example of Principal Beasley’s intolerance and bigotry is her failure to post the names of all the heterosexual couples in school she has seen walking the hallways. That is, all the boy-girl couples who have the *nerve* to display their heterosexuality by holding hands or hugging or kissing or other mild (and not-so-mild, perhaps LOL!) public displays of affection.
Remember, though, that it’s atheists in America who are really the intolerant ones…
While you are probably correct in guessing that this person is religious, she may not be. I’ve had the misfortune of meeting some atheists whose conservatism took primary shape in their bigotry.
Even if she is christian, I am afraid that people like Chris Hedges will insist that you’re only judging religion from a sample of worst cases. After all, the pulpits of the US are sounding with the words of Niebuhr and Tillich and not the hate of Leviticus and Paul right?
I’m not trying to defends gays or anything, but depriving students of their education by removing them from school just for being homosexual is not right in my opinion. I am in high school myself, and I see a few gay/lesbian couples, but we learn to accept it and leave it alone. Although I was raised in a Christian background, I am open-minded and although I may not agree with some of the things going on, a drastic action is not the answer.
If it were up to me people like that principal wouldn’t just be fired, they’d spend some time making license plates.
If you would like to ask Ms. Beasly any questions about what she was thinking, her e-mail address is:
beasleyd@mcsk12.net
Religionists are liars and bullies.
I must agree with Mr. Hanks.
“Religionists are liars and bullies.”
You could not have spoken more TRUTH if you had tried to. Better yet, you summed it up in a nice, short statement.
In all my 51 years I have yet to see a Religionist of any faith that was not a bully in one way or another and for some of the dumbest reasons on earth.
And the number one dumbest reason of all time is!!!!! (Drum Roll Please!) THE BIBLE TOLD ME TO!!!
GIVE ME A BREAK!!! Don’t you Religionist fools have minds of your own? And if you do, WHY DON’T YOU USE THEM???
I will tell you why you do not use them. You are too bloody BRAINWASHED to do anything else!!
I am an “Intersexed” person (Born both female and male.) and in 1999 I had everything repaired in the FEMALE direction. What I got out of this was PEACE OF MIND! BETTER HEALTH! AND TOTAL CONTROL OF WHO AND HOW I AM!!!
Two days after I was born, my father (A CARD PACKING MEMBER OF THE KKK!!!) decided FOR ME that I was BY GOD GOING TO BE A BOY! He had my Dr. STITCH AREAS CLOSED THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN CLOSED!
This set up a chain of illness that I fought all of my life and for all of my life, I was wide open for any “bug” that saw me as a free meal.
I caught more colds and flues then I can count and bouncing back from colds, flues and infections took me twice as long as those around me.
If I broke a bone, I would have that ruddy cast on 3 to 4 times longer then others would have to just so my bones would set.
The last straw was I had a heart attack from a collapsed artery in 1995 and ALL OF IT was tracked back to that ONE DAY when that old fool took MY LIFE in his filthy hands! HE MESSED UP MY ENTIRE SYSTEM AND MY EARLY LIFE!
And why did all this happen? BECAUSE OF ONE RELIGIONIST, BIGOTED, BRAIN DEAD, KKK FOOL THAT COULD NOT KEEP HIS HANDS OR HIS RELIGION TO HIS SELF!!!
Before and after I repaired his damage to me, I caught (And still do catch.) HELL from Religionist fools that think like he did and threaten me with beatings and DEATH because of how and who I am and the damn fools back it all up with THE BIBLE!
And they all wonder why I told Christianity and Religionist fools to SHOVE OFF AND LEAVE ME ALONE! I can not think of anything more DANGEROUS AND DEADLY then RELIGION OF ANY FORM OR SHAPE and the WEAK MINDED, BRAIN DEAD FOOLS that follow any of it!
Lady Royce