Bob Grisham, the head football coach at
Lauderdale County High School in Alabama, has been suspended after he
was caught on tape ranting against First Lady Michelle Obama and
gays.
Audio of Grisham expressing his
distaste for “queers” and calling Obama “fat butt Michelle
Obama” was released on the Internet last week.
In the audio, Grisham is heard blaming
Obama for the school's 600-calorie lunches.
“Fat butt Michelle Obama,” Grisham
told his students. “Look at her. She looks like she weighs 185 or
190. She's overweight.”
Another voice is heard calling the
first lady a “big fat gorilla.”
“Our country is going in the wrong
direction, you'd better be aware of it. And people running around
like, oh it'll get better, it'll get better. No, it ain't gone get
no better until things change.”
Grisham also prodded the students to
“call the superintendent and tell her” that “I don't like
queers.”
“I don't hate them as a person but
what they do is wrong, it's an abomination against God,” he said.
“I don't like being around queers.”
The Lauderdale County Board on Monday
suspended Grisham for 10 days without pay and ordered him to attend
sensitivity classes. He will also no longer teach a psychology
class, local
media reported.
Grisham was recently named “Coach of
the Year” by the Times
Daily.