Nigerian President's advisor says same-sex relationships make you retarded

[Ian David]

WTF?
| posted by Shakespeare's Sister | Thursday, February 22, 2007 | permalink |

Nigerian Presidential Advisor Professor Friday Okonofua: Same-sex relationships make you "retarded". I'm having a hard time trying to make a joke ridiculing this patent lunacy that doesn't inadvertently denigrate mentally challenged people in the process, so I'm not going to make one at all. Just wev.

Meanwhile, in my own backyard, the principal of a Fort Wayne-area high school flipped his shit over a student paper editorial because it exposed the students to "inappropriate material." You can read the full text of the editorial here, including its ragingly controversial content like "I can only imagine how hard it would be to come out as homosexual in today's society. I think it is so wrong to look down on those people, or to make fun of them, just because they have a different sexuality than you.

There is nothing wrong with them or their brain; they're just different than you." and "According to pflagupstatesc.org, every day 13 Americans from the ages of 15-24 commit suicide, and homosexual youths make up 30% of the completed suicides.

I don't understand why we would put so much pressure on those people, that they would feel that they have to end their lives because of their sexuality. Would it be so hard to just accept them as human beings who have feelings just like everyone else? Being homosexual doesn't make a person inhuman, it makes them just a little bit different than the rest of the world." Indiana: Hotbed of high school student radicalism.

More:
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2007/02/wtf.html

[sniffa]

1. um yay

gaytarded?

[Lautremont]

2. Doesn't having any kind of relationship make you retarded?

I mean, that's love. Maybe that's what he's trying to say. Why, maybe he's in love.

[redqueen]

3. Oooh I love what the lawyer said!

Adam Goldstein, attorney at the Student Press Law Center, said the Woodlan situation does not fall under the Supreme Court precedent, which permits a school to interfere with student expression only when it can provide a legitimate educational basis for doing so.

In the Hazelwood case, school officials were able to prove the articles went against what was being taught in the classroom.

"If students are not being taught tolerance in the classroom, their problem is much larger than this particular incident," Goldstein said.

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/16747287.htm

:applause:

[kenny blankenship]

4. So that was his momma's excuse?

She had sex with another woman while expecting Professor Friday, resulting in his retardation. Perhaps so, but I heard that his father often beat his mother when he was in the womb after catching her with other men, and that's how Professor Friday was born a retard.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. That just isn't true! * is happily married to Laura and has always

been an avowed heterosexual.