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Two fourteen year old girls were kicked off a public bus in Portland, Oregon because they were kissing, and some nut-job complained. Just to add insult to injury, the driver called them "sickos".
PORTLAND, Ore. - Two gay teen girls who say they were kicked off a TriMet bus for being affectionate with each other are considering lodging a complaint against the driver of the bus.
Maika Rich and Jocelyn O'Neal, both 14, admit they were kissing while on the No. 12 bus traveling on Barbur Boulevard at about 5 p.m. on June 8. They were headed to the Sexual Minority Youth Recreation Center.
They say a female passenger complained to the driver about the kissing and that the driver told them to "knock it off" and also called them "sickos."
Rich says she then gave O'Neal a hug because it appeared she was upset about the exchange. They say at that point the driver stopped the bus and ordered them off.
The girls say they are used to being picked on at school but felt defenseless against an adult.
Kisses,
JanieBelle
RC McCloud also writes at The Safe Word
A follow up : the driver will be disciplined, but the disciplinary action has not yet been made public (and may well not be made public). The disciplinary action is not in response to the homophobia or discrimination against lesbians, but rather because of a violation of a policy that minors and "vulnerable" people should not be put off busses.
...because public space really matters!
Elizabeth
me to start pontificating on how the little butthead will probably get a slap on the wrist.
What I mean to say is that such ignorant and antiquated behavior is the stinking, rotting, left over corpse of dark age religiosity, and this bus driver needs a good twenty first century kick right in his tuckus.
And that's all I have to say about that! (Until tomorrow, at which time my mouth will probably kick back into overdrive of its own accord.)
Don't even get me started on the mental issues a man must have that causes him to be turned off by two girls kissing.
Kisses,
JanieBelle
