FARMERSBURG, Ind. — An Indiana high school teacher whose comment that she believes gays have no purpose in life has been suspended amid tighter security at her school.
Superintendent Mark Baker of the Northeast School Corp. in western Indiana’s Sullivan County issued a statement saying the teacher has been placed on administrative leave out of concern “for the safety and security of everyone in our buildings.”
Diana Medley (via WTWO-TV)
He added that “as a precaution” the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Department and Indiana State Police “have deemed it necessary to station an officer” at North Central Junior-Senior High School in Farmersburg, about 75 miles southwest of Indianapolis.
Baker said the “administration and one school employee in particular” at the school have received “aggressive email messages.”
“We are turning over to law enforcement all such communications,” he said.
Baker did not identify the teacher, but special education teacher Diana Medley’s comments were met with widespread criticism amid news coverage of an alternative prom dance at a nearby school that would ban gay students.
In the interview with a local television station, Medley said that gays served no purpose in life, and equated LGBT teens to students with developmental disabilities.
“It’s the same thing with my special-needs kids,” she said. “I think God puts everyone in our lives for a reason.”Medley also said that the idea of LGBT teens attending a prom was “offensive,” adding that she believes homosexuality is a choice, and that no one is born gay.
Last week, Baker issued a statement that Medley was merely “expressing her First Amendment rights.”
Medley has no published telephone number and she couldn’t be reached for comment Wednesday.
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Makes me ashamed to be from Indiana. Let alone the same region as her.
Needs to be.
Good! She shouldn’t be allowed to teach hatred to children.
unlike her who apparently has the purpose of hate
Good. Now she should reflect on what she said and how that will impact a child’s life
Good riddance.
what a biatch!
She should have been fired a long time ago.
She spreads hate, she has no purpose. Being on “leave” means she is still getting paid.
Good to hear
I bet she regrets even opening her mouth
@ Mandy Hayes: It’s not where you come from that makes a person stupid, it’s the direction that they choose to head in. =)
Poor attitude..If she were teaching my kids, Id switch schools!
needs to be fired!
Is that it? She should be fired ON THE SPOT>
hang that bitch
Chalk up one fewer a$$hat in the classroom. Thank goodness they usually don’t know when to keep their mouths shut, or they’d never be weeded out.
I love how the LGBT is becoming so influential you gotta think about it twice before you throw your hate speech out there. Kudos!
Thank god. Shes a fukin bitch
Evil witch!
Boooo Hisss!! Teaching should be about love and respect!
Yes she’s getting paid. She is union as well. They can not fire her..
Administrative leave? Fuck that dude, fire the bitch
no doubt she’s collecting full salary while out – at least she’s not being paid to poison minds, that’s something, I guess
Instead of Administrative leave her butt should be fired, I’m sorry she needs to be more open minded now days because children are a lot different in life and she should be someone a child could talk to without hate or judgment placed upon them
What a dumb bitch ! Lol! I’m sorry but she’s a bitch .
She should have been fired with no pay!!!!
What a hateful, ignorant woman. Hope she’s kicked out permanently. She should not be in a place to influence children.
She needs to be shot…
Fire her!
She should be fired, and never allowed to be let near children again
A teacher should not be making comments like this and should be ashamed. EVERYONE has a purpose….EVERYONE!
you are reason that teens kill them selves every freaking min in the US, you dumb bitch! People are people no matter what, and deserve the same rights as other ppl!!!!!!!!!!!! EQUALITY!!!!!!!
Leave and not fired!?
Cunt
Good.
It’s people like you bitch that serve no purpose in life, BURN IN HELL YOU FUCKIN WHORING BITCH
excuse me, ‘northeast school corp” are we now privatizing our school systems like we have privatized our jails?
Looks like she doesn’t have much purpose for a while either.
She admits she thinks God made gay people for a reason but says gays have to purpose. Wtf
If she thinks gay people have no purpose, who else does she feel that way about.
She is on leave because of emails and letters…..
Somehow I find this a severe case of injustice, she should be on PERMANENT leave, for expression opinions that are detrimental to the health and well-being of LGBT children. She is entitled to her own opinion, but when you are a teacher and your job includes the welfare of children, you shut the fuck up and do your job.
btw, this person is a perfect example of why we need ‘critical thinking’ classes…
They say that a bout gays but it’s okay for straight people to not have kids wtf
good! she is not a teacher!
Shame on her; should have been fired! No teacher or anyone for that matter, should teach hate! Add her to the list of people who should NOT teach!
First step to her being FIRED!
She should be Fired and not be able to teach again anywhere!
Administrative Leave????? She MUST be fired !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Couldn’t have happened to a better asshole.
foolish humans. i greatly dislike mushrooms in my food…yet i dont say”they have no purpose”…just cuz she may be straight(&a bitch)doesnt mean she should think we should all be straight…funk nuggets i hate teachers like her
How narrow minded.
HA!
She is clearly not gellin’ http://www.namedevelopment.com/blog/archives/gellin.gif
Good. Now, fire her.
but in all seriousness wow that’s intolerant
GOOD. Ignorant, hateful thing shouldn’t be anywhere near young minds.
I don’t quite understand one thing. The article said that she stated that gays serve no purpose in life, then went on to equate lgbt students to students with developmental disabilities. So does she mean to say that students with developmental disabilities also serve no purpose?
Guess our purpose now is to run her ass out of her job….see u lata biatch!!!
If so, she’s a double bitch. :D
Hmmm how about people, like this woman, who are closed-minded have “no purpose in life”?
Keep your thoughts to yourself that are discriminatory while teaching in a public school, Missy!
Yay. Next step administrative termination. So long dummy.
Bye-Bye, bigot!!!
Maybe she needs to be educated
She is a special needs teacher and teaches her class about intolerance? Nice… Brava! I agree that she has a right to her opinion but it’s not her job to teach her opinion. She needs to go live in a cave.
So when people get to old to work what should we do with them ? What an awful way to describe someone. She can’t serve a purpose teaching that’s for sure.
wow fire her closet case
I hope she’s suspended / administrative leave with NO PAY
It would be preferable if she were to resign.
Let her try to get another job, I hope her new boss is openly gay
She should of been fired!!!
SHE has no purpose in life. What a selfish, horrible way to go through life.
In nature, homosexual (i.e. nonreproductive) pairing is often a response to overpopulation
So, in purely ecological terms, we certainly do have a purpose
Oh, yeah, and I’m a person!—with Human Rights and Civil Rights
Good she does not belong around children.
I hope she loses her job!
Good riddance.
You know…I know teachers in inner city schools and they have students whose parents are prostitutes, gang members, criminals, etc. These teachers do not approve or like these types of lifestyles, but they don’t go around saying that to the students!! It happens to be their personal opinion. Their role is to educate, mentor and help create a welcoming environment for everyone. Teach kids they have a future and a purpose. This is not just a gay issue, this is about teachers really doing what they’re supposed to do and to keep their personal and religous opinions to themselves.
I also agree that she should be fired, not placed on paid administrative leave.
What a bigoted idiot!! They really hiring stupid people as teachers now fml!!
But what is she is a very good teacher even though she is a hate filled bitch.
I hope she lives in fear
The “with pay” part should have been contingent on her mandatory attendance of meetings supporting marriage equality, PLFAG, and discussions with openly gay and lesbian students.
Poor children…..
Another brainwashed gay bashing zombie for Jesus.
Just like Hitler thought Jews, homosexuals and others served no purpose. Comments like those contribute to bullying, hate crimes and LGBT youth suicide and feelings of low self-esteem. Screw her and the horse she rode in on.
I still say that this witch should be treated with the same “traditions” as in old Salem.
Many times when a person doesn’t think and issues a statement and everyone defends it as 1st Amendment, be careful of the other part of the Constitution that bans “Inciting a riot”. But she is like any other criminal or religious fundamentalist.
I sincerely hope this administrative leave is a prelude to termination.
Now she has no purpose in life…… How does it feel? But I suppose we should feel sorrow for someone so facetious!!
I think that bitch deserves it! Yea we have no purpose in life, yet there are plenty of gay and lesbian doctors, healthcare workers, soldiers, etc. also many people who do great things for the world on a daily basis and we do not over populate the community. I think we’re pretty damn important with a greater purpose than she could ever imagine!
Administrative Leave! FUCK HER, She should have been fired on the spot. Those poor kids are going to be just as judgmental and uneducated as she is. Stupid Bitch.
Well cool and all but it shouldn’t take a hateful email when the things she said were hateful to begin with
She should be fired!! She has no business teaching!!!
I hope she is drummed out of the profession. I have taught for twenty years and people like this undo the hard work that many of us have done to make positive changes.
It’s kind of sad that people have to actually threaten the school in order to take action against her. They shouldn’t have hired her in the first place.
bye bye bitch
Ignorant freak!
She’s been placed on administrative leave because her safety is allegedly at risk, not for her bigoted and discriminatory comments. Yes, she has a right to her opinions, but not to voice them in her role as an educator. The school officials don’t give a shit about the LGBTQ community, only in covering their collective asses. Yet another example of why Federal legislation similar to The Civil Rights Act, or including the LGBTQ community in the Civil Rights Act, is needed to give the American LGBTQ community their due as full American citizens.
YES!!!!!!!!!!
Well, for certain she has no purpose in my life, the ignorant fool.
finally
Get rid of her
She has no business teaching I have a special needs daughter and that lady I would not allow to teach
Fire the bitch and bar her from teaching! A ignorant person like that has no right to say that.
How about the fact , now a days it seems kwel to come out , people seem to be jumping out , but one thing has stayed the same – that would be the inner feeling of hardship , judged , and fear of receiving anger for who one is … Funny how these posting about all NEG. post only draws suicide , self hate , and more fear , why not post more about uplifting post , maybe someone will not feel hurt &afraid , just a thought ….
I hope she loses her job and finds it difficult to get another teaching job
“Administrative leave”?? Whatever happened to “kicked the fuck out of that school for teaching hatred”?
Indiana as a political entity is quite conservative, and socially it can be very intolerant,too,so very little may happen to this woman.
I want no pay, I want her pension revoked, I want her to be shunned by teaching positions the world over, and she will be forced to work with animals, or inanimate objects–something that can’t listen to her vitrol.
should be Fired. and no retirement.
Really??? Are people still this stupid???
Fired, no pension, can’t work as a teacher or administrator of children ever again. Someone like this does not belong in our children’s classroom or anywhere near a child. That is just pure hatred, and we don’t teach this in school. PERIOD!!!!
Hopefully they fire her with no retirement!
People like that have no place educating others.
she is no positive role model fire her intolerant ass she shouldnt teach anyone.
Deserves to be fired!!!! Come on folks, teachers can not be hate mongers
Good. Hopefully she’ll be unemployed in the very near future.
She should be fired!!! Period!!!!
good, no business teaching our youth with such lies and hatred, go work for Chick-fil A
Fuck this cunt.
I don’t think she has any purpose teaching!!!!!!!!
She should be fired, nobody with that mentality and judgement of people shouldn’t be teaching her hate to students..
Sickening!!!!!!!!
While they do have to respect her “rights” under the law that does not mean it its right to condone or support her harmful and illegal views/actions in the classroom. Especially as those views/actions have the potential to incite harm to a student or even death in some situations. She needs to be removed as a teacher and not be allowed to teach again anywhere in the US.
I only hope the media reports the story correct (man am i a dreamer). The firestorm is not because she supports traditional prom, but because she said homosexuals have no purpose.
All humans, religions, teachers, etc. who do not accept lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender human beings are enforcing denial, depression, embarrassment, guilt, homophobia, quietness, shame, solitude, withdrawal and even suicide on LGBT human beings. We are as God makes us!
Good!!!!
Good for them
She’s a shinning example of how our education system needs an overhaul. She’s clearly too stupid to know when to shut up.
Wow What A Bitch. Everyone Has a right to live the Life No Matter WHAT Their Sexuality, Race, and Religion. Everyone was put on earth for a reason. and no ever should ever tell anyone how they should live their live and who they can be. or their sexuality can be.. This World Is so Fucked up. No can be who they Are.. Its like everyone has to be told how to live and what their sexuality. is NO ONE I MEAN NO ONE WILL EVER TELL ME WHO I WILL BE AND HOW I WILL LIVE MY LIFE AND WHAT MY SEXUALITY IS. I MY LIFE IF U DONT LIKE IT TO FUCKING BAD AND KISS MY ASS!
No business teaching children, cunt out!
bioch
Good, she deserves it for what she said.
its still not enough..she’s still getting paid!
Everyone keeps saying that she was just expressing her first Amendment rights… but I am PRETTY sure that the LGBT community that she says has no purpose also fought to defend that right !! It is one thing to say that at home … but when you are in the schools and it is your JOB to shape and mold young minds your OPINION is not welcome you must maintain professionalism at all times !!!! She deserves to never work again !!!!!! :)
There now I feel better that was me exercising my rights to the first amendment !!! :)
i vote we treat her as if it wer ancient times and take her into the street and stoner her, not to death just till her common sense is knocked back into place.
Lol HILARIOUS !!! I so agree with you John Fields !!! :)
She wont be fired.. She will find a job in one of the private “Christian ” schools that allow her to spew her hate in the name of God.
Good. Bigots like that who can’t keep their crap to themselves have no business teaching.
Those private so-called Christian schools of bigotry and hate should have their tax exemptions revoked. Our country could sure use the income this would generate! These schools are churning out millions of little bigots every day. THAT is how the GOP & Tea Baggers are holding on as much as they are.
Offensive
Forget administrative leave, she should be fired.
good. eff that b.
What a BITCH!
She’s finding out super-quick what its like to “have no purpose in life.” Heartless narrowminded……
She shouldn’t be in a position to teach children her hate and judgement. She should be fired.
she wasn’t suspending for saying it, she was sent on “leave” due to “aggressive emails” received by the school.
is she ann coulter’s twin sister??
What a dumb ass …..gezzz and she’s teaching children ….I hope some kids egg her house …lol
EPIC FAIL !!! She needs to be put on the unemployment line.
Can they put her on mental disability leave?
This made me sick to my stomach to be considered from indiana. I have gay friends and honestly nobody can cheer me up when I’m down like they can…. And make me feel attractive… Lol but I think honestly this teacher should lose her license to teach and should have no right to be in charge of young developing minds.
suspended is suspended all!! She deserves it either way!!
Keep her and her HATER ideas away from students!! She’s just spewing the LIES & INTOLERANCE & BIGOTRY of the extremist, right-wing “religious” HATERS!!
Paid or unpaid? Did they just send her on an extended vacation?
YAY!!!! WOOHOO!!!! YEEHAA!!
waiting for her to go to court for violating her students civil rights to exist and study in a hate free school.
^ I’m with Tony, hopefully it’s unpaid!
Good!
She makes me sick!
The Superintendent needs to reread the First Amendment. The right to “free speech” is protection to speak out against the government without fear of retribution. The fact that she is influencing the minds of children is sickening.
Unfortunately this administrative leave is to supposedly “protect” her from some emails she has received…. So it has nothing to do with her actions
when will cosed minds finally be opened? how many of our rights can they keep taking what are bigots actually teaching our kids? HATE thats what!
It appears the “administrative leave” is for her security and the school ,and not for what she said and this is even more disgusting! As a straight mom of wonderful sons, one of which is gay, was BORN THAT WAY, and I wouldn’t want him any other way and seeing my son and others bullied in school (of which I fought back in action) is so nauseated with not only this cruel woman’s ignorant comments and beliefs but the fact the school is still basically really condoning it!!!
What a sad ignorant person she is.
Hmmmmmm…….shame on you teacher.
Neither do bigots like her.
for a teacher she sure is ignorant.
Wow,,,, shocked at her hatred. Wow.