Update: the school also bans LGBTQ students. In a “parent agreement” document, parents are to acknowledge that condoning, practicing or supporting “sexual immorality, homosexual activity or bi-sexual activity” goes against the school
Inevitably, some will defend this school by saying that no one who wasn’t already willing to abuse their kids for being queer would ever sign up anyway. If anyone finds that argument persuasive, it needs to be remembered the next time there’s any discussion of whether schools like this should be allowed to divert resources from public schools that aren’t abominations.
Part of me, as an art teacher, is perversely interested in the truly shitty art this closed-minded, intellectually bankrupt tool will be having her students make.
But mostly I feel sorry for the kids trapped in that horrible place
this is going to be Pence’s agenda and legacy once he gets control of the presidency, now quietly waiting in the wings for trump to be yanked out of his chair
it’s going to be a rollback to the 1980s and earlier the days of Regan and before when LGBTQ was not just marginalized in our society, but that leadership teaches hate and exclusion by example
I’m so certain what trump has done anti-lgbtq has all been from pence whispering in his ear and giving him ideas into that empty brain, because I don’t think trump gives a damn otherwise until someone gives him “ideas”
“…the book is a parable about welcoming outsiders. It tells of a forest in which a chipmunk worries that the entrance of a snail will ruin the world he knows. The publisher will donate some proceeds to a charity aiding immigrant children.”
To be even more clear, the law at the time dictated that if a man died without an heir, his brother had to marry his widow and any subsequent children would be considered the heirs of the ORIGINAL brother, not the biological father. The sin of Onanism is refusing to allow your brother to have heirs because you don’t think it’s fair that you lose the right to have your own.
I know America hates to use legal mechanisms to deal with bigotry. But I look at something like this and ask myself: would the sky fall if there was some kind of human rights tribunal that could say this school’s policy was discriminatory an unacceptable? I feel like it is far more likely that the sky is already falling under the current rules. (It’s just that it’s falling on LGBTQ kids and half the population seems to think that’s okay)