‘You’re Going to Hell’: TN High School Principal Resigns After Alleged Anti-Gay Comments to Students
- Posted on March 2, 2012 at 8:04am by
Billy Hallowell
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A high school principal has resigned following a controversy over allegations that she made anti-gay comments and expulsion threats to students. Dorothy Bond, principal at Haywood High School in Brownsville, Tennessee, has been accused by students of targeting homosexuals with her words, while also making insensitive comments about teen pregnancy.
“At first she was talking about PDA and she turned around and she directly pointed to the gay people and said if you‘re gay you’re going to hell and if you’re pregnant, you’re life is over,” student Amber Whittiemore said.
As ABC24 notes, Whittiemore was not in the room during a Feb. 9 assembly to hear these words. Instead, her friend, who happens to be gay, called her and divulged what Bond allegedly said. Other students who contacted the ACLU claim that the principal threatened any gay individuals who showed affection with one another with 60 days of suspensions, an assignment to an alternative school or — expulsion.
The he said, she said has led to some major division in the community, as some residents are perplexed and angry with Bond, while other stand behind the principal.
One parent, Tony Snipes, said he was “outraged” when he heard about the comments. Additionally, he described the principal as a woman who has been controversial in the past. He went on to say that he does not believe she should be a principal in the school district any longer.
“A couple of years ago when she was principal over at Sunny Hill one of my children had his hair in braids,” Snipes explained. “At an assembly she told the young men if they’re sitting between the legs of a girl getting their hair braided for a few hours, that they must be gay.”
Principal Dorothy Bond (Image Credit: Haywood County Schools)
But Jeff Hopper, another local resident, is backing Bond.
“I’m behind her, I’m behind her 100 percent,” he said. “Whatever she said, she loves those kids. She taught them from the ground up; she has their best interest at heart.”
The Haywood County School District confirmed, through a statement, that Bond was, indeed, talking about public displays of affection at the time that students claim she made the offensive remarks.
On March 1, the ACLU released a statement, condemning Bond and offering some quotes that differ somewhat from Whittiemore‘s friend’s account of what Bond said to the students:
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Tennessee sent a letter to the superintendent of the Haywood County school district superintendent after receiving reports that a high school principal said gay students are “not on God’s path” and threatened to expel them if they publicly showed affection for members of the same sex. The letter was sent on behalf of several students and families at the school.
The ACLU also received reports that Haywood High School Principal Dorothy Bond not only made discriminatory remarks about LGBT people, but also told students that “life is over” for girls who became pregnant. [...]
The incident appears to be part of a broader pattern of official anti-gay remarks and policies by the principal, and of incorporating prayers and proselytizing into school events. On one occasion, school officials scolded students who did not bow their heads in prayer and threatened them with discipline. On another occasion, the principal told a lesbian student that she would go to “hell” because of her sexual orientation.
Following the uproar Bond, who has yet to publicly comment on the incident, resigned.
(H/T: Gawker)
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OY
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 2:58pmBible doesn’t say anything about a woman lying with another woman, now does it? Must be ok.
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 3:26pmAnd it couldn’t possibly be because there wasn’t much of that going on at the time, because that would mean that it was only meant for the people of the time and place that it was written, instead of being the word of God who knows everything and intended as the book of rules for all people everywhere forever.
Report Post »JEANNIEMAC
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 6:25pmIn Romans 1:26-31 twenty-three punishable sins are listed with homosexuality leading the list. Paul wrote, “For this cause God gave them up into vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet” (Romans 1:26, 27). These verses are telling us that homosexuals suffer in their body and personality the inevitable consequences of their wrong doing. Notice that the behaviour of the homosexual is described as a “vile affection” (1:26). The Greek word translated “vile” (atimia) means filthy, dirty, evil, dishonourable. The word “affection” in Greek is pathos, used by the Greeks of either a good or bad desire. Here in the context of Romans it is used in a bad sense. The “vile affection” is a degrading passion, a shameful lust. Both the desire (lusting after) and the act of homosexuality are condemned in the Bible as sin.
Report Post »robert
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 7:34pmhis principal should have realized that telling the truth is a no-no in a radical leftist culture. He should have known we should all pretend this wonderful multiculutral utopia is loved by everyone.
This is George Orwell’s 1984, where massive, wide-spread deceit is the norm and telling the truth is not allowed.
Report Post »williaml
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:09amDon’t be stupid.
Report Post »How can Two Women be Fruitful and Multiply?
Amos37
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 10:33amnext you idiots are going to say it’s okay to mate with animals. read His Word before you open your mouth to blaspheme.
Report Post »do_it_all_again
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 1:40amshe should not resign for telling the truth
Report Post »waring850
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:20pmundoubtedbly
Report Post »RayOne
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 2:26pmThe NEA should tolerate the 1st Amendment.
Report Post »mikenleeds
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 2:06pmit s very true , all homosexuals will burn in hell for their sin ,
Report Post »why must anyone that tells the truth in our country must resign?
OY
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 2:54pmLeviticus 18:22. You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman: it is abomination.
Leviticus 19:19. You must obey all my decrees. “Do not mate two different kinds of animals. Do not plant your field with two different kinds of seed. Do not wear clothing woven from two different kinds of thread.
Report Post »Leviticus 20:10 “If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife–with the wife of his neighbor–both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.”
Leviticus 24:16. Anyone who blasphemes the name of the LORD must be put to death. The entire assembly must stone him. Whether an alien or native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death.
mindovermuscle
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:42pmIf someone is gay and repents, confesses his sins, and invites Christ into their heart, they can be saved.
Report Post »Hova
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 3:38pmYes, eternal torture is the only possible conclusion.
Report Post »kookoolarue
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 4:44pmMaybe because we don’t like in Afghanistan or Iran where religious fundamentals run our public institutions? If she wants to use her personal religion as a weapon against other people’s children she should relocate to a country under Shariah law. And you should do the same.
Report Post »Modaddy
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 1:12pmMs. Bond sounds like a wonderful women. She’s just being honest with her sudents. What’s wrong with that?
Report Post »solomon
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 12:58pmGod bless Dorothy. Good for her. If there were’t people like her left in America we would be in worse shape than we already are. She sacrificed a lot when she decided to face evil head on. She is one brave woman. Go Dorothy!!!!!
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 3:28pmYes, go Dorothy! Get the hell out of the school system. It’s bad enough there are people like her left in America without allowing them to spew their evil filth at children.
Report Post »SquidVetOhio
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 12:51pmSorry, I’m not buying this story. Who talks like that? I’m a very conservative christian and I would never say anything like that. Sounds fishy to me. The kids (in TN mind you) ran straight (no pun inteded) to the ACLU? I smell a liberal rat.
As far as
““At an assembly she told the young men if they’re sitting between the legs of a girl getting their hair braided for a few hours, that they must be gay.”
Well, that’s just true.
Report Post »Nick84
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 3:18pmShe admitted she said it…
Report Post »ModerationIsBest
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:41pmHave you not seen a lot of the comments on here?
Report Post »alwayshappy
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 12:47pmBeing gay is not sin! Like it or not! The principal should have known better! There‘s a big difference between those who recoginze and accept being gay and those who ’choose’ the lifestyle.
Report Post »SquidVetOhio
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 1:06pmRoman 1:26-32
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Sure sounds like sin to me. Of course, the Apostle Paul was probably some right wing bigot eh?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 1:41pmSquid, you’re wasting your time. People like that create their own gospel and god.
Report Post »db321
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 2:13pmGay = Abomination – don’t get mad at me – I’m in sales – God’s in Management.
Leviticus 20:13 – If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
I’m just replying to those that want to blame the Church – it’s not the Churches fault – God makes the Rules – the Church just teaches God’s law. If this offends you – I’m sorry – I would rather be a good friend and let you know before God let you know on Judgement day.
Report Post »TheWatchmanSeeth
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 3:06pmSee what happens when you read a liberal bible,,,,,,,,,,,
Report Post »Bigrod58
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 11:46amThe truth is a BEE-ATCH ain’t it.
Report Post »Br@dley
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 11:28amwow.
Report Post »i’ll bet $10 this crackpot is a santorum supporter.
any takers?
Issa.Von.Erich
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 3:20pmWell i guess your out of 10 bucks dude. She’s black, I doubt she’s a Santorum supporter, let alone a Republican
Report Post »The Jewish Avenger
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 11:08amWhat he should have said:
If you‘re gay you get more protections than the common citizen and if you’re pregnant, you get a free ride and perhaps a trophy!
And if you are both, you can get on Oprah.
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 11:27amToo funny. She should have said, if you’re homosexual, don’t live the lifestyle. The lifestyle is what sends you to hell.
Report Post »Matty85
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 3:35pmYou people are so ignorant. Don’t pick and choose what to follow/believe in the bible. It was in a public school! She has no right to shove her personal, religious beliefs on anyone and certainly has no right to attack student with such hate. Oh how some Christians behave is so far from Christian.
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 11:03am“Whatever she said, she loves those kids. She taught them from the ground up; she has their best interest at heart.”
She has their conversion to her religion at heart, which is impermissible for a government agent, which a public school principal is.
And yes, she loves those kids, which is why she has to impermissibly threaten, berate, and humiliate them in exactly the same fashion that Bush and Obama love Capitalism, which is why they have to destroy it to save it.
Report Post »midwesthippie
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 10:35am…related to ricky? religious nut-job? this is a microcosm of why America will not vote for a religion-first candidate for prez. …i think i’ll watch that tucson video again.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 10:52amI just LOVE how calling Christians “Nazis, bigots, racists, extremists, hypocrites,etc” is acceptable and a fair synopsis yet, an opinion on the gay lifestyle “wrong” and considered “Nazism”…Really? How?. See the double standard? Nah, you progressive dopes only see what you want to see. Filling our children with your belief system is somehow completely fine…why? You’re teaching my children a belief system that differs from mine….why is that all of the sudden acceptable? Remember, to have TRUE freedom of speech opinions go BOTH ways. There is no such thing as “hate speech”. There is either free speech or free opinion or there is none.
Report Post »midwesthippie
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 11:06am…exactly CESSNA. fascism has no party…it works for left and right wing. i can’t wait to see this story unfold and how a conflicted ACLU deals with bringing down an “african-american” woman.
Report Post »CJohnWest
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 10:29amIt is of no man’s knowledge or choice who goes to hell; excepting their own of course.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 10:35amThis is not extreme in comparision to the agenda we’ve been swallowing from the Left in our schools for years now. She’s attempting to undo the damage on her watch and in overdrive…bad technique but I do understand why she is being so direct. We did not get this way overnight and we will not turn back from the cliff in one full swoop of any magic wand. Grown ups are the problem! We’ve allowed ourselves to be a part of the agenda and thus forward that agenda in the schools…what teachers say as authority figures to these kids is what they will perceive as how to conduct themselves in the world. They’ve created monsters and they are called OWS and 99%ers.
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 11:04amSo, two wrongs make a right, Georgie?
Report Post »garrett0423
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:45amWhat about freedom of speech??? ooooo wait she hurt someone‘s feelings so freedom a speech doesn’t cover that…. right? Wrong! freedom of speech gives you the right to say whatevver you want to say without any repercussions. but in this awesome political correct society we live in freedom od speech doesn’t exist.
Report Post »MarketsClear
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:53amYou’re an idiot. Freedom of speech means that you can’t be thrown in jail or have your property taken from you for what you say. It does not mean that your speech does not have consequences. As a public school official, it is not acceptable for her to threaten or harass students based on her personal beliefs.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 11:09amYour way off the mark there Garrett.
Report Post »Issa.Von.Erich
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 3:31pmDido, If only more people actually read the Constitution, and didn’t go by shorthands
Report Post »ThePatriot88
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 8:58amI don’t hear the NAACP… at all.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:07amCrickets… The truth can hurt.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:41am“A high school principal has resigned following a controversy over allegations” you don‘t resign if you didn’t say it.
Report Post »hi
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 8:52amThe teacher bullying will be all over the media because someone said something against gays. Yet, there will be no mention of teacher bullying of the teen who wrote the Douglass essay.
Report Post »My3Girls
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 8:48amFirst of all, what happened to innocent until proven guilty? Is there any chance the students stretched the truth or even outright lied about the comments? Did any staff member hear the supposed comments to corroborate this accusation? Secondly, if she did say “life is over” for teen girls who become pregnant, she has a point. Teen pregnancy forever alters and adversely affects a person’s life. We can attest to this personally as we help raise our granddaughter that was born to our daughter when she was just 18 and unmarried.
Report Post »MarketsClear
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:56amummm, she resigned. This means that she voluntarily left. And innocent until proven guilty is really only a concept when talking about the use of force in a court of law. the court of public opinion has no standard of proof to determine guilt.
Report Post »My3Girls
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 10:21amShe resigned following the controversy over allegations. Where does it say she was at fault? Once the mighty ACLU gets involved, though, you’re history! That is 100% wrong. Why do we give them so much power and authority?
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 8:42am.
All this woman is trying to do is give these Uneducable Children a future….
And they are going to Burn her at the stake. Isn’t that a Hate Crime?…………
Report Post »Issa.Von.Erich
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 3:35pmRight on Market. You and i seem to be the only ones on this site that read the Constitution
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 8:28amI assume Mr. Snipes is black. I also assume the principle is clueless. Blacks braid their hair to strengthen the roots. I don’t know if it actually strengthens the roots, but it is pro-social behaviour. A guy getting his hair groomed by a gal feels lie a million books. I bet if he put his mind to it, that he gets better grades on average to some guy a girl won’t touch.
If white guys grew their hair long in the pre-Roman past & groomed the same way at that time, they would be right there too. They would be sitting in front of some white girl getting their hair groomed in braids or plated.
Report Post »SoundStride
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 8:25amOnly liberal Obama lovers can be a principle now pro-gay and anti Christian values only need apply.
Report Post »piper60
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 8:20amSuch a shame. We used to get in trouble for public displays of affection between boys and girls when I was in school. Back then people actually respected the principal’s decision. Now days, they call in the ACLU(anti Christian Liberal Union) and force the principal to resign. All she was trying to do was to enforce some personal discipline. The gay students have the right to be gay, but they should control themselves enough to wait until after school to be affectionate with each other. The gay agenda should not bully the straight students/faculty.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 8:30amWhere is… The Right To Be Gay… in the Constitution?
Report Post »DoseofReality
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 8:54amLuke…how about the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness and not having an authority figure tell you your going to hell. How about that? Stop the hate, life is too short
Report Post »MarketsClear
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 9:59am@ luke
9th amendment.
Its really sad when right wingers ask “where in the constitution did you get that right?” when they ask that it means they are woefully ignorant of the purpose and construction of the constitution.
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 3:38pmNo, if she had said “there is a time and place for everything, and this is not an appropriate place for that,” that would be enforcing discipline and rules governing public displays of affection. If she said “you’re going to hell,” that is using fear and intimidation to influence children to live their lives according to her opinions.
Report Post »Lumbar Spine
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 8:19amWhat the hell is a public school principal doing telling kids they are going to hell?
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 8:31amI agree.
She could tell students that life is much harder after getting pregnant & used all sorts of statistics to back it up. She doesn’t need to use religion.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 8:33amDoes “public school” mean “ignore the deviants”?
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 8:53amL.S.
Report Post »I agree …!
I think we should keep everyone in the dark about……… “SIN” .
That way …When they get to “HELL”….It will be a “SURPRISE” ..!
Dufass
DIVINEPROVIDENCE1776
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 8:55amI’m with you on this one LUMBAR SPINE.
Report Post »DoseofReality
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 8:55amReligion only belongs in one place in publis schools – in the study of ancient mythologies….nowhere else.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 8:56amWhen they act like deviants.
Report Post »Grasshopper42
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 8:18amI like her . . .
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 8:14amSocial pressure was the force that once controlled depravity, obesity… on and on. Once it was attacked and removed, obesity, depravity, and every form of social cancer grew. Judgement, criticism, social norms… all served a purpose. They are what made us different from every other animal species.
Go to Walmart and look around. Looks like a zoo, as does our tattooed, pierced society, that once could only be found in old National Geographic magazines about the primitive cultures. Devolution from socialism.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 8:12am.
Report Post »See what happens when you tell the truth……
Chet Hempstead
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 3:39pmHopefully, when you tell the truth about an evil bigot who verbally abuses children, you get her fired.
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