Dance School Teacher with ALL Gay Students Rabidly Anti Gay and Not Quietly

Mark Lamb/Don Yarber 

A homophobic school board member in Kentucky got up and left a school board meeting where people from the community called him out for his anti-gay Facebook posts. He then later went online to complain that gay people have free speech, but he is not “allowed” to say what he thinks about gay people. 

Union County Public Schools board member Don Yarber posted messages to Facebook that caused a stir in the local community. 

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“Keep letting those queers influence the minds of your children,” he wrote, WFIE reports. “I’m sure that the LGBTQRESTMOVAND THE REST OF THE ALPHABET OF degenerates..will feed them and take care of them.”

“They won’t have any sickness except AIDS, MENTAL INSTABILITY, SUICIDAL THOUGHTS, JOBS, WEALTH, SELF-RESPECT or RIGHTEOUSNESS.”

The messages have since been deleted, but not before many in the community saw them and were angry enough to attend a board meeting on Monday night.

“I’ve dealt with bullies all my life, so Mr. Yarber, when you made those comments on Facebook, they roll right off me because I have developed a very tough skin,” Mark Lamb, who is out as gay and works as a dance teacher in the school district, said at the meeting. 

“When I was a kid, I suffered messages like you said, when you cavalierly mentioned suicide, and they made me not want to be alive,” Lamb continued. “I believe that all of us can do better. Even the bullies. Even you, Mr. Yarber.”

Just as Lamb finished, Yarber stood up and started to leave, saying, “I don’t have to stand here and take this.” Lamb tried to shake his hand in the hallway as he stormed out of the meeting, but Yarber refused. 

Others spoke after Yarber left, even though he wasn’t there to hear their words. Superintendent Dr. Terra Hancock read a statement saying that the views expressed by school staff and board members on their personal social media accounts don’t represent the values of the district. 

The next day, Yarber was back on Facebook, complaining that he faced any criticism at all.

“Once again the gay community has been allowed to say, ‘It’s OK to be Gay.’ And I have not been allowed to say, ‘No it’s not,’” he whined.