Branding ain't for cows and BDSM anymore...

CNN - Teacher accused of burning cross on student's arm

...Just what we need, another extremist religious nutjob in a position of authority over our vulnerable youth. And I'm not even talking about his stereotypical-for-a-rightard spew about homosexuality being a sin, his teaching of (Un)Intelligent Design or his keeping a Bible on his desk. The former's his 1st Amendment right to freedom of opinion, like it or not, though he should keep it out of his work. The median is annoying, but some of the people in charge are pushing for this garbage and the latter is enough to want me to lead an angry mob and call for his head. No, what earns the WTF is the fact that he burned a cross onto the arm of one of his students. Why? That's not detailed in the story and I won't speculate. It's wrong regardless. It makes you cry WTF, no matter the motives. You just don't do that to a kid, no matter how much of a heathen he is.

Also, a WTF to the school that hired this nutjob in the first place. Don't they check out their employees? They should have seen the signs and fired him before this happened instead of just reprimanding him. Reprimands won't fix a rightard. You got to hit them where it hurts... the wallet.

Score: 7 of 10 WTFs