For at time, at least, he could make the right connections.

That’s the money shot. And EXACTLY why the gay community and their supporters can point to the significance of why gay children are distinctly in need of more help and support than other children and the issues they are bullied for.

Clint McCance can be representative of thousands of fathers all over. Who’d actively assault and bully their own gay children.
Or illegally abandon them to the streets with impunity. Even if that child is under age.
The torment doesn’t begin and end at school among one’s peers.
But also from the adults one is extremely dependent on for mental and physical well being.

I can imagine Tyler Clementi having a father and mother similar to Clint McCance.
And I can think with assurance that such a thing contributed to Tyler’s suicide.
His parents have not DEFENDED him since his death.
Not a word.
Whereas the more supportive parents HAVE done so.
Something that’s very telling unto itself.

We know of children who are barely toddlers being beaten and murdered by their fathers for not presenting as butch enough for those fathers.
Which is anti gay torture at it’s most hideous extreme.

But such cruel remarks and thoughtlessness and loss of parental love that McCance espouses, could wear on the teen brain and do damage.

This is why I bring up the Clark study, and the damage to black children.
Even as far back as the early 50′s, the effects of bigotry, isolation and constant messaging as an inferior and threatening person presented in children as young as three years old.

There is no reason to think that similar attacks on gay children, wouldn’t have similar outcomes as they did on black children living under Jim Crow.
Or Jewish children in the Soviet Union.

I’m hating the idea of gay people as lab rats all over again, but perhaps gay adolescents might need this.
Because just as the Clark research was instrumental in overturning school segregation.
Perhaps something as groundbreaking regarding education could happen as well for gay kids…and their families.

“The only people responsible for the suicides are the people that comitted them. . . .Each person is responsible 4 their own actions.” – NOM supporter

“It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother to fall.” -Romans 14:21

The conclusion: don’t eat meat or drink wine, because that can cause others to fall. But breaking their arms, throwing them down a flight of stairs, punching and kicking them and urging them to kill themselves is OK, because that won’t have any effect.