{"id":53101,"date":"2017-05-15T10:20:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T14:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/high-school-teacher-resigns-after-telling-student-newspaper-gays-deserve-to-die-watch\/"},"modified":"2017-05-15T10:20:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T14:20:27","slug":"high-school-teacher-resigns-after-telling-student-newspaper-gays-deserve-to-die-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/high-school-teacher-resigns-after-telling-student-newspaper-gays-deserve-to-die-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"High School Teacher Resigns After Telling Student Newspaper: Gays \u2018Deserve To Die\u2019 \u2013 WATCH"},"content":{"rendered":"

High School Teacher Resigns After Telling Student Newspaper: Gays \u2018Deserve To Die\u2019 \u2013 WATCH<\/b><\/p>\n

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A special education teacher at\u00a0San Luis Obispo High School in California\u00a0resigned Thursday after writing a letter<\/a> to the student newspaper that said that people engaging in homosexuality \u201cdeserve to die,\u201d the Tribune<\/em><\/a> reports. \u00a0The letter was a response to a May\u00a0issue of the student newspaper that focused on LGBT issues and showed a same-sex<\/a> couple<\/a> kissing on the front cover.<\/p>\n

The teacher,\u00a0Michael Stack, resigned Thursday afternoon in an email.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe community apparently wants me out, so I hereby grant them their desires,\u201d the email read<\/a>, \u201cI exercised my First Amendment rights and submitted my opinion to a public forum. In it I quoted, verbatim, Romans 1: 16-32. Now people are exercising THEIR First Amendment rights by responding to that letter. This is how America is designed to function.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Prior to Stack\u2019s resignation,\u00a0San Luis Coastal Unified School District Superintendent Eric Prater and Principal Leslie O\u2019Connor said in a joint statement that Stack would not be disciplined over the letter because it fell within his First Amendment rights.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs a district, we understand that students do not shed their First Amendment rights at school, and we respect the rights of our students to speak on controversial topics,\u201d the statement said. \u201cWe applaud the high school\u2019s commitment to open dialogue and a free exchange of ideas in its student newspaper. [\u2026]\u00a0In a similar manner, we acknowledge the right of our staff to voice their opinions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statement added that it was decided in February that Stack, a probationary teacher, would not be kept on staff for the coming school year, the Tribune reports. However, the article later reports\u00a0that Assistant Superintendent Kimberly McGrath said that Stack claimed he wanted to retire at the end of the school year.<\/p>\n

In response to the letter, a protest was help\u00a0outside of the high school.<\/p>\n

Watch a report from KSBY:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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