Kaitlyn Hunt Was Arrested, Expelled From School, For Being In A Lesbian Relationship

Kaitlyn Hunt was one of those all-American high school girls. She was blond, and a cheerleader; she played on the basketball team. She’s gay.

Oops.

Not so fast. Not really so ‘all-American’ now, is she? At least not in Florida.

Kaitlyn Hunt started dating a girl she met on the basketball team and, according to her father, Steven everything changed. Kaitlyn was dropped from the team because the coach didn’t want the “drama” of a lesbian relationship.

Then it gets worse because, at the time, Hunt was seventeen and her girlfriend just fifteen. Kaitlyn’s girlfriend’s parents were not about to have a lesbian daughter, and the moment Kaitlyn Hunt turned eighteen, those parents had her arrested. Kaitlyn Hunt was charged with two felony counts of lewd and lascivious battery on a child. And then she was expelled from school, just weeks before her graduation.

"[The girlfriend's parents] are out to destroy my daughter, because they feel like she ‘made’ their daughter gay. They see being gay as wrong and they blame my daughter. Of course, I see it 100% differently. I don’t see or label these girls as gay. They are teenagers in high school experimenting with their sexuality – with mutual consent. And even if their daughter is gay, who cares? She is still their daughter.”—Kelley Hunt Smith, Kaitlyn’s mother

The attorney general offered Kaitlyn a plea deal: two years of house arrest and a year of probation, though the ‘crime’ would stay on her permanent adult record.

Crime. Being a Lesbian in high school and falling in love with a younger girl. Kaitlyn’s parents are asking people to sign a Change.org petition urging authorities to drop or lessen the charges.

You know, of being gay.

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