Limbaugh Blames School’s Gay “Agenda” for King’s Death

[smile72]

In rhetoric that goes even beyond blaming the victim, Rush Limbaugh is saying teachers and administrators at Lawrence King’s school bear responsibility for his death because they encouraged him to express his sexual identity.

On his radio show Tuesday, Limbaugh said E.O. Green Middle School in Oxnard, Calif., where gay student King was shot to death by classmate Brandon McInerney in 2008, was pushing an agenda. McInerney stood trial for the crime this summer, but a mistrial was declared after jurors could not agree on a verdict; Monday heagreed to a plea deal, pleading guilty to second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter, which will bring him a 21-year prison sentence. McInerney, now 17, was 14 at the time of the shooting, and King was 15.

After the plea deal was announced, King’s mother spoke out, saying she had worried that someone would attack her son, who sometimes wore makeup and feminine clothing to school, and she relayed these concerns to administrators. “I knew, gut instinct, that something serious was going to happen,” Dawn King told the Los Angeles Times. “They should have contained him, contained his behavior.” The Times notes, “She said she was told that her son had a civil right to explore his sexual identity.”

Whether school officials could have done more to protect King — and perhaps constrain McInerney’s behavior as well — is a question worth asking, but Limbaugh used King’s comments as a jumping-off point to criticize the school as promoting a pro-LGBT agenda.

“Is it any wonder that parents get a little worried when they send the little tykes off to school, because I’ll tell you, folks, what’s happening, especially in these blue states, what’s happening in these public schools, the last thing going on is what we’ve all thought of as traditional education,” Limbaugh said. “There is education taking place, and there are agendas that are being promoted, but they’re not what you and I were taught in school. So now [King] is dead.” Discussing the possibility that King was transgender, Limbaugh sarcastically said, “He had the right to explore whether at some point he was going to need a chopadickoffamy operation.”

He further played the conservative victim card, saying, “Can you imagine if the kid were a conservative and wanted his civil right to indulge and inform himself about conservatism, whether the school would have said, ‘Hey, there’s nothing we can do. The kid wants to learn about conservatism and there’s nothing we can do to stop it.’ I hardly think so.”

Bryan Fischer of the virulently antigay American Family Association posted a commentary on his blog Tuesday that makes a similar point, saying the school put King in danger by letting him express a gay or transgender identity — but he also casts King as a predator and McInerney as a victim of “inexcusable sexual harassment.”

Fischer writes, “King was a flamboyant homosexual, who not only flaunted his homosexuality but mercilessly harassed McInerney. ... Because of King’s politically favored sexual preference, nothing was done to protect the victims of his harassment. And consequently, because school authorities did not do their job of protecting students from bullies, King is dead at the hands of a victim of his relentless harassment.” He concludes, “Placing reasonable curbs on the public expression of homosexual behavior is not only good policy, it actually makes the world safer for homosexuals. It is the sane, humane, and compassionate thing to do.”

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I don't post about Rush Limbaugh, don't care about him, but his lies have finally gotten to me. And Fischer sickens me blaming the victim
Opinions???

 

[Hells Malice]

What is this, 1953?

Morons still have views like this? Jesus christ someone put them out of their misery.

 

[smile72]

Hells Malice, this view is not atypical of a lot of Conservative Christian Political Commentators.

 

[Jakob95]

Seriously stop with the "gay" news its getting old already.

 

[yuyuyup]

In 2008, this guy got a four hundred million dollar contract. Thank God our radio airwaves are being used in such a positive manner

 

[smile72]

Jakob95 the last piece of 'gay news' I posted was on November 11th.

 

[Forstride]

“King was a flamboyant homosexual, who not only flaunted his homosexuality but mercilessly harassed McInerney. ... Because of King’s politically favored sexual preference, nothing was done to protect the victims of his harassment. And consequently, because school authorities did not do their job of protecting students from bullies, King is dead at the hands of a victim of his relentless harassment.”

Yeah, guess someone "harassing" another student into becoming gay is far, far more severe than the "victim" shooting and killing the kid. Whether or not the gay kid was doing it or not, how the hell is killing someone a justified behavior?

Oh, that's right, because we're too blind to see the amendments our forefathers wrote on the Constitution that our country was supposedly built upon. Meanwhile, Jesus is apparently telling these people to protest, slander, and harass anyone that isn't a white, heterosexual, unmaterialistic, Bible-humping conservative.

It's things like this that make me ashamed to be a Christian American. -_-

 

[Hop2089]

The secret service needs to investigate old Limbaugh that and the ATF, I know he has a stash of Oxycontin in his house.

 

[Gahars]

People, we're talking about Rush Limbaugh; are you still surprised?

 

[Guild McCommunist]

More like Rush Limbawwwwwwwww.

Seriously though, I don't think anyone has taken Rush Limbaugh seriously since... Hell, I don't even know if he was ever taken seriously.

 

[smile72]

He is taken seriously by the bubble, and by that i mean the Fox News bubble. The people who believe Fox News probably believe him.

 

[GundamXXX]

“Placing reasonable curbs on the public expression of homosexual behavior is not only good policy, it actually makes the world safer for homosexuals. It is the sane, humane, and compassionate thing to do.”

Yes... lets curb personal expression!
Wait, wasnt America AGAIN things like this? Didnt they go to war because of this? Didnt they justify invading Iraq because of this?

God, the stupidity of mediocre America surprises me again... no thats a lie it just dissapoints me even more since Im not at all surprised

 

[_Chaz_]

Oh Rush... why must you continue living in the 1600s?

 

[Blood Fetish]

More like Rush Limbawwwwwwwww.

Seriously though, I don't think anyone has taken Rush Limbaugh seriously since... Hell, I don't even know if he was ever taken seriously.

Whether you agree with his views or not, there is no reason to spread lies. Rush Limbaugh has the most listened to talk radio show in America.

 

[yuyuyup]

Did you know that Premiere Radio Networks syndicates both Rush Limbaugh AND Airman First Class liberal Randi Rhodes ? I wish all talk show hosts served in the Military.

 

[Blood Fetish]

Did you know that Premiere Radio Networks syndicates both Rush Limbaugh AND Airman First Class liberal Randi Rhodes ? I wish all talk show hosts served in the Military.

Service Guarantees Citizenship!

 

[The Catboy]

@Limbaugh

enough said

 

[mucus]

After the plea deal was announced, King’s mother spoke out, saying she had worried that someone would attack her son, who sometimes wore makeup and feminine clothing to school, and she relayed these concerns to administrators. “I knew, gut instinct, that something serious was going to happen,” Dawn King told the Los Angeles Times. “They should have contained him, contained his behavior.” The Times notes, “She said she was told that her son had a civil right to explore his sexual identity.”

So the mom didn't take any responsibility for what her son did? Instead she tried to act like it was the school's responsibility to watch after her child. Schools shouldn't tell someone what to wear, that's the parent's job. Schools shouldn't tell boys that they can't wear makeup, that's the parent's job. Schools are there to educate and provide a safe environment in which to receive education. Passing the blame and acting like it's someone else's job to control your child makes you one of the worst things possible: a bad parent. Yes bad parents are to blame for situations like this. Bad parents do little and blame a lot.
Now this is just me being my usual heartless self: She deserved to lose her child because she was so negligent.

 

[GundamXXX]

After the plea deal was announced, King’s mother spoke out, saying she had worried that someone would attack her son, who sometimes wore makeup and feminine clothing to school, and she relayed these concerns to administrators. “I knew, gut instinct, that something serious was going to happen,” Dawn King told the Los Angeles Times. “They should have contained him, contained his behavior.” The Times notes, “She said she was told that her son had a civil right to explore his sexual identity.”

So the mom didn't take any responsibility for what her son did? Instead she tried to act like it was the school's responsibility to watch after her child. Schools shouldn't tell someone what to wear, that's the parent's job. Schools shouldn't tell boys that they can't wear makeup, that's the parent's job. Schools are there to educate and provide a safe environment in which to receive education. Passing the blame and acting like it's someone else's job to control your child makes you one of the worst things possible: a bad parent. Yes bad parents are to blame for situations like this. Bad parents do little and blame a lot.
Now this is just me being my usual heartless self: She deserved to lose her child because she was so negligent.

Bad parents are to blame for putting the blame somewhere else

Bad society is to blame for noone acting towards the killer

Bad school is to blame for the creating of such a negative surrounding

To be honest, there are a lot of people to blame except for the victim.
If the parent scolded the child for expressing himself then the parent would have been a bad parent as well. The best the parent could have done was held her head up high and say her son died the way he was and nothing can ever change that.

 

[mucus]

no, she should have told her son " no you cannot wear makeup and girls' clothes to school. no"
sure that would've upset the son, but he'd still be alive. and heck, he'd be 18 now... he could go out in public as he wished dressing however he pleased.