Two Tales Of Intolerance, Bigotry, Fear And hatred

Up in Pennsylvania, the Milton Hershey School, a boarding school, has denied admission to a student because he is HIV+. And they are standing by their decision.

And now that 13-year-old boy is suing the school, claiming the school broke anti-discrimination laws. His lawyer, Ronda Goldfein of the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania, said legal precedent makes it clear that keeping HIV-positive kids out of public and private day schools is illegal.

But the school--which apparently thinks this is still 1981--says it would be difficult to assure that other students would not get HIV through blood-to-blood contact or sexual activity. Milton Hershey School spokesbigot, Connie McNamara, says, "Children cannot be assumed to always act in the best and most responsible way as they grow up. We just have to provide the proper protection for the health and safety of the students already on campus, and we believe we have made the right decision under the law."

Asshat say what? Is it me, or is she basically saying that because this young man is HIV+ that he cannot be trusted around other children? So, he gets deined an education? he gets denied equal treatment? Have we learned nothing about this from Ryan White?

Stella Harville and Ticha Chikuni

And, as if that isn't bad enough, at a tiny all-white Appalachian church in rural Kentucky, the congregation has voted to ban interracial couples from joining its flock, because members of the Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church say the church "does not condone interracial marriage."

In 2011.

Melvin Thompson, the dimwitted, brainless fuck who crafted the racist resolution narturally says, "I am not a racist [Bob: which is what racists always say]. I will tell you that. I am not prejudiced agiants any race of people[Bob: as long as they keep to themselves], have never in my lifetime spoke eviul about a rcae" and says the matter is an "internal affair."

Of Racsim. Plain and simple, black and white, or, in this case, all white.

But Dean Hargrave, who is the church secretary, has a different oipinion, espeiclaly since the resolution came about after his daughhter visited the church during the summer with her :::gasp::: African boyfriend. Stella Harville and Ticha Chikuni — now her fiancé — visited the church in June and Chikuni sang a song for the congregation. But then Dean Harville was approached by Thompson, who told him Stella and Ticha were no longer allowed to sing at the church.

“If he’s not racist, what is this?” Harville said of Thompson. And that's my question, too. And since the vote for the resolution came in at 9-6, and since the congregation numbers nearly forty, a great many people did not vote. And they need to; they need to send a message to Melvin Thompson and his ilk that this is not 1962 and he cannot do this, especially in the name of god.

School Bans HIV Student

Church Votes Against Interracial Couples