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School board official who called gays the “rape of the natural world” says he’s a victim of bullying

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A defiant member of the local school board in Stonington, Maine is refusing to resign after posting vile homophobic comments to Facebook, claiming he is the real victim here.William Shepard was elected to the Deer Isle-Stonington School Board last year, beating his opponent by a whopping one vote. (Yes, one vote.)In June, he took to Facebook to trash Pride month for being against his deeply held Christian beliefs and to call same-sex marriage a “rape of the natural world,” whatever the hell that means.More than 150 parents called on him to resign for violating the school board’s policy requiring “ethical and responsible behavior” by engaging in cyberbullying, but at a meeting Tuesday night, 39-year-old Shepard said there’s no way in hell.

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