we ll continue to follow these stories as they develop but it s not just teens who harass gay students. incredibly, in october, a man named clint mccance, the vice president of the midland school district in arkansas posted a series of anti-gay remarks on his facebook page. he said he likes gay people give each other aids and die and he would disown his own kids if they were gay. he said, seriously, they want me to wear purple because five queers committed suicide? direct quote. the only way i m wearing it is if they all commit suicide, he wrote. i can t believe the people of this world have gotten this stupid. two of the five people he was referring to, seth walsh and tyler clementi. when mccance s remarks were made public, people across the country expressed their outrage at him and their immediate calls for his resignation. we at 360 wanted answers as well to find out if he stood by his remarks. keeping them honest, anderson kont fronted clint mccance and he got some action. you
responsible for tyler s suicide. we ll continue to follow these stories as they develop but it s not just teens who harass gay students. incredibly, in october, a man named clint mccance, the vice president of the midland school district in arkansas posted a series of anti-gay remarks on his facebook page. he said he likes gay people give each other aids and die and he would disown his own kids if they were gay. he said, seriously, they want me to wear purple because five queers committed suicide? direct quote. the only way i m wearing it is if they all commit suicide, he wrote. i can t believe the people of this world have gotten this stupid. two of the five people he was referring to, seth walsh and tyler clementi. when mccance s remarks were made public, people across the country expressed their outrage at him and their immediate calls for his resignation. we at 360 wanted answers as well to find out if he stood by
hostility. the aclu offered a list of actions the district could take. we tried to reach both the superintendant and the president of the school board for reaction but were unsuccessful. and there s a development as well another story we followed closely, the case of tyler clementi. he committed suicide in september. his parents have put rutgers on notice they may file lawsuit. for failing to protect their son. tyler was an 18-year-old rutgers student who took his own life after two other students, including his roommate allegedly used a web camera to record a sexual encounter tyler had with another man. and then streamed it online. rutgers says it s not responsible for tyler s suicide. we ll continue to follow these stories as they develop but it s not just teens who harass gay students. incredibly, in october, a man named clint mccance, the vice president of the midland school district in arkansas posted a series of anti-gay remarks on his facebook page. he said he likes gay people g
district to address an environment of what they call hostility. the aclu offered a list of actions the district could take. we tried to reach both the superintendant and the president of the school board for reaction but were unsuccessful. and there s a development as well another story we followed closely, the case of tyler clementi. he committed suicide in september. his parents have put rutgers on notice they may file lawsuit. for failing to protect their son. tyler was an 18-year-old rutgers student who took his own life after two other students, including his roommate allegedly used a web camera to record a sexual encounter tyler had with another man. and then streamed it online. rutgers says it s not responsible for tyler s suicide. we ll continue to follow these stories as they develop but it s not just teens who harass gay students. incredibly, in october, a man named clint mccance, the vice president of the midland school district in arkansas posted a series of anti-gay remark