I am a civil person.  I do not, as a rule, engage in name calling.  I try to see multiple sides to an argument and I avoid obscenity.

But sometimes I read things like this:

According to KWTV News, 18-year-old Melissa McKenzie said she was kicked out of Del City High School in Del City, Okla., at the beginning of the semester when the principal found out she was living with her girlfriend instead of her family. The principal then told her if she returned to her family’s home, she would be welcomed back to school.

The upshot of this story is that students are being discouraged from graduating because they are lesbian.  I normally focus here on Vermont, and this is in Oklahoma, but it’s important to understand that this sort of backwater, ignorant, hateful nonsense can happen anywhere and needs to be called out, not just in our own backyard.

I have no wisdom to impart here.  I have nothing to say which makes this better.  I am disgusted, appalled and seriously would like to see the principal who’s involved in this story (which is not the first time he has done this) get fired.

No.  Not just fired.

Kicked.

Kicked in the shins.

Kicked in the shins over and over again by a team of angry lesbian soccer players.

I wish I had something better to say about this, other than “I’m glad I live in Vermont.”