Dr. Phil McGraw doesn't believe Clint
McCance is sincerely sorry for his anti-gay rant.
The 60-year-old host of Dr. Phil
made his remarks Friday in an appearance on CNN's Anderson Cooper
360.
McCance is the 30-something Midland
School District board member who announced on the same program that
he's agreed to resign after coming under severe criticism for posting
anti-gay comments on his Facebook profile. In that segment, McCance
also apologized for his remarks.
The comments included mocking
Spirit Day, the day set aside to remember gay teens bullied to death,
cheering the suicides, saying he “enjoys the fact that [gay people]
they often give each other aids and die,” and declaring that he
would disown his children if they were gay.
“This is the biggest non-apology –
non-apology apology – I've heard,” McGraw said. “He did not
apologize for what he said. He didn't apologize for the message that
this gives to children, to kids, to parents out there. What he
apologized for was saying that suicide was the only out and that he's
sorry that he said that.”
“My concern is that, because this is
getting so much attention … the downside of it is that gay,
lesbian, transgender and questioning youth right now can say 'see
that's how they really feel' and we drive them further back,” he
added. (The video is embedded in the right panel of this page.)