A teenager in Florida has been expelled from school and charged with two felonies simply because her girlfriend’s parents disapprove of their relationship. She now faces two years of house arrest and a year of probation.
Kaitlyn Hunt was a popular student at Sebastian River High School, participating in everything from cheerleading to basketball. Hunt began dating another female student and the latter girl’s parents became enraged, according to Hunt’s parents. Kaitlyn was 17 at the time the relationship began, while her girlfriend was 15. Upon Kaitlyn’s 18th birthday, her girlfriend’s parents sent the police to the Hunt home and the teenager was arrested.
Hunt was charged with two felony counts of lewd and lascivious battery on a child. Then, weeks before her graduation, Hunt was expelled from school.
“[The girlfriend’s parents] are out to destroy my daughter,” Hunt’s mother told the Examiner, “because they feel like she ‘made’ their daughter gay. They see being gay as wrong and they blame my daughter. Of course, I see it 100% differently. I don’t see or label these girls as gay. They are teenagers in high school experimenting with their sexuality — with mutual consent. And even if their daughter is gay, who cares? She is still their daughter.”
Infuriating. So many things wrong with this.
First, this is a case of homophobic parents blackmailing a girl they don’t like in a slimy, roundabout way that serves to mask their bigotry. I can’t believe what a cheap shot they took. Absolutely disgusting.
Second, “I don’t see these girls as gay”? Cool, thanks, Mom. Thank goodness she’s not disowning her daughter, but I don’t totally see this as being supportive either.
Third, there’s a petition circulating to drop or lessen the charges against Kaitlyn. Go sign it. And try not to lose faith in humanity, even though people like this exist.
This state is ridiculous beyond comprehension.
Best moment in television history.
Okay, so this girl Catalina gets a boob job since she thinks she’s so flatchested. She leaves her family and starts whoring around with bad people, namely cocaine smugglers. She returns home to find out her mother is doing her boyfriend and that they’re getting married. Watch it!
Were you poor? Did you eat chicken pot pies?
The House of Yes, Wendy MacLeod
Thanks, dad, for making me spend the past 40 minutes rushing to finish your taxes before the stroke of midnight while you watch tv.
This is hard.
I am moving to a new place in the next few weeks. I decided that I can only spend one more year in this state. I am packing my books and have come to a crossroads as to what to do with them. I have way too many to take with me. I figured I have to give them away, and I don’t have time to sell them. I must have 5 full boxes of books.
I may go through them right now and choose one box I want to keep, and figure out what to do with the rest of them. Donate? Where? I would really like to know where they will go. Anyone want them, and wants to pay for shipping?
