Posted on Advocate.com November 23, 2011 06:17:57 PM ET
Limbaugh Blames School's Gay "Agenda" for King's Death
By Trudy Ring
http://www.advocate.com/Crime/Limbaugh_Blames_Schools_Gay_Agenda_for_Kings_Death/ (http://www.advocate.com/Crime/Limbaugh_Blames_Schools_Gay_Agenda_for_Kings_Death/)
In rhetoric that goes even beyond blaming the victim, Rush Limbaugh is saying teachers and administrators at Lawrence King's school bear responsibility for his death because they encouraged him to express his sexual identity.
On his radio show Tuesday, Limbaugh said E.O. Green Middle School in Oxnard, Calif., where gay student King was shot to death by classmate Brandon McInerney in 2008, was pushing an agenda.
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"Is it any wonder that parents get a little worried when they send the little tykes off to school, because I'll tell you, folks, what's happening, especially in these blue states, what's happening in these public schools, the last thing going on is what we've all thought of as traditional education," Limbaugh said. "There is education taking place, and there are agendas that are being promoted, but they're not what you and I were taught in school. So now [King] is dead." Discussing the possibility that King was transgender, Limbaugh sarcastically said, "He had the right to explore whether at some point he was going to need a chopadickoffamy operation."