The Gaytheist Agenda

This really doesn’t surprise me considering it took until 2008 for Charleston, MS, to have a racially integrated prom (and for all I know there are still towns in MS that are holding racially segregated proms). But now an Itawamba school has not only refused to allow a lesbian couple to attend the prom, they’ve actually canceled the prom to keep the girls from attending as a couple.

JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi county school board announced Wednesday it would cancel its upcoming prom after a gay student petitioned to bring a same-sex date to the event.

“Due to the distractions to the educational process caused by recent events, the Itawamba County School District has decided to not host a prom at Itawamba Agricultural High School this year,” school board members said in a statement.
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Apparently LGBT students standing up for their rights are now “distractions”.

In the announcement, the school board encouraged the community to organize a private prom. “It is our hope that private citizens will organize an event for the juniors and seniors. “We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this causes anyone,” the statement concluded. School officials did not respond to calls seeking comment.

The announcement alarmed McMillen.

“Oh, my God. That’s really messed up because the message they are sending is that if they have to let gay people go to prom that they are not going to have one,” she said. “A bunch of kids at school are really going to hate me for this.”
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Of course they want the other students to blame the victims, for then they’ll be absolved of any guilt for their own actions. But then that’s pretty much the RRRW way–do something then pin the blame on someone–anyone–else. Blame the victim, Satan, God, demons or anyone but themselves.

ACLU of Mississippi issued a letter demanding the district change its policy. The letter gave it until Wednesday to decide on a course of action.

The ban on same-sex dates is a violation of McMillen’s constitutional rights, said Sun, the ACLU’s senior attorney on gay rights. “We believe the law is pretty clear,” Sun said. “The school just can’t arbitrarily say you have to bring an opposite date to the prom.”
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The ACLU has filed suit against the school.

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In today’s legal complaint, the ACLU asks the court to reinstate the prom for all students and charges that the First Amendment guarantees students’ right to bring same-sex dates to school dances and cites cases holding that other parties’ objections don’t justify censorship. The ACLU also said that the school further violates McMillen’s free expression rights by telling her that she can’t wear a tuxedo to the prom.

“It’s shameful and cowardly of the school district to have canceled the prom and to try to blame Constance, who’s only standing up for herself. We will fight tooth and nail for the prom to be reinstated for all students,” said Christine P. Sun, Senior Counsel with the ACLU national LGBT Project, who represents McMillen along with the ACLU of Mississippi.

The ACLU will ask the court in the next few days to grant McMillen a preliminary injunction ordering the school to reinstate the April 2 prom, let McMillen and her girlfriend go to the prom together, and let McMillen wear a tuxedo to the event.
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I wish them success. Constance and her girlfriend deserve the right to attend their prom along with everyone else.

 

Give them a “holy book”, they’ll give you porn in return. The premise is you’re exchanging Smut for Smut. Needless to say that has a good number of believers in a tizzy.

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A sign in the University of Texas-San Antonio (UTSA) Humanities building reading, “Free porn: Just trade in your holy books (Bible, Koran, Vedas) for porn” has led several students to take offense, as was revealed when local television station KENS spoke with some of the students on campus.
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A third UTSA scholar was shocked upon hearing the news, asking, “Did they really do that,” and adding, “It kind of made we want to cry.” One other student simply stated, “Basically, I disagree. You know, I think that the university setting is basically for learning, and that type of stuff needs to be kept out of it.”
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But you are learning, Blanche, you are. You’re learning that some people find your Bible just as depraved as any of the magazines normally reserved for the top rack of the newsstand. It contains, and often condones, things like infanticide, genocide, rape, murder, slavery, incest, and more. It’s not the opus of purity and morality believers claim it to be. (Other “holy books”, like the Koran and Book of Mormon, are just as bad.)

Thomas Jackson, former president for the campus group The Atheist Agenda, believes the “Smut for Smut” program is a matter of fair trade, since Christians have been the most vocal opponents of pornography and because “religious texts are so appalling.”

Many area residents are contacting school officials to express their disapproval.

I find it amusing that the religious people are so agitated over this event. They hand out their “holy books” and other religious materials every day–even to children outside public schools–without a moment’s thought to the fact that others might be offended by them. They don’t consider the fact that what they see as sacred, moral and holy can be perceived by others as offensive, oppressive and even vulgar. Perhaps every campus and public square should have a Smut for Smut event so their eyes will be opened.

 

White House officials met with secularist and atheist groups for the first time in history. Of course since religious groups have lost their exclusive access to the WH they must have tantrums over the event.

 

 
The supporters of Proposition 8 realize how poorly their side argued their case in Perry vs. Schwarzenegger. So now, like monkeys, they are pulling yet more poo out of their backsides and flinging it in hopes that something will stick to the wall.

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The potential harms they cited included giving bisexuals a legal basis for pursuing group marriages and unmarried fathers an incentive to abandon their children.
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Bisexual means a person can be romantically and sexually attracted to either gender. It doesn’t mean they’re inclined to fall in love with both at the same time. Of course the bigots like to push the notion that it’s the latter because then they can also pimp their slippery slope fallacy. OMG, if we allow same-sex marriage it might lead to POLYGAMY!!! Yeah, and people might start squeezing the Charmin too. Please people, protect the toilet paper and vote NO on Gay.

As to the claim that same-sex marriage would give unmarried fathers an incentive to abandon their children…that’s pure horsecrap. There are already millions of “deadbeat dads” out there and it has absolutely nothing to do with same-sex marriage. It’s high time that heterosexual people stop blaming gay people and gay unions for the failings of heterosexual relationships.

 

 
A student in a Maryland middle school refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Her teacher mocked her and called her names on the first day, and had the school police escort her to the office on the second day. It’s a good thing the girl wasn’t doodling on her desk….

 

 
Yet another Christian is crying “persecution” and filing a lawsuit because he thinks they shouldn’t have to share public space with others, or be pestered with the opinions of those who think differently. Perhaps a secured commune would be a better place for him.

 

 
Finally, this “Christian” charity will stop providing aid to Haiti if they won’t turn from their evil Voodoo ways and convert to Christianity. This is exactly why I despise most “faith based” charities–they don’t truly want to help but only to push their religion on others. The aid they provide is only a vehicle to gain more bodies for their god. There is nothing moral about what they do.

 

Some high schools in Montgomery County, MD, sent students home with fliers from PFOX. It’s part of PFOX’s ongoing effort to push their anti-gay agenda into the nation’s schools, and foist discredited, harmful, bigoted “reparative therapy” on children. (Peter Sprigg, who declared that gay people should be imprisoned, is a board member of PFOX.) PFOX is flat-out lying to these children, and the school system is allowing it.

Some Montgomery County high schools passed out fliers this week from an organization that contends gays can become heterosexual through therapy, and the schools say they cannot prevent the use of their distribution system by such groups.

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The schools are required to distribute literature that isn’t deemed hate speech from any registered nonprofit organization four times a year, the result of a 2006 lawsuit, said Dana Tofig, a spokesman for the Montgomery County Public Schools.
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“These fliers are probably counter to what is available in our health curriculum, but that curriculum focuses on respect, and we respect freedom of speech,” said Patricia O’Neill (Bethesda-Chevy Chase), president of the Montgomery County Board of Education.
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She admits that what PFOX is pushing contradicts the health curriculum. Then she mentions “respect”, but where is the respect for the LGBT students who are being told they are broken, flawed, deviant creatures who need to “change” in order to please others? Once again the health and safety of LGBT citizens takes a back seat to the perceived rights of others to abuse them.

But hey, if it’s only about free speech and presenting alternative ideas to kids then when can we send the kids home with fliers telling them they can become Ex-Christians?

 
Further reading:

RRRW Homophobes Distort Scientific Evidence To Bolster Claim that Homosexuality is Bad. Find Out What They Didn’t Tell You.

The Truth About Ex-Gay “Therapy” Exposed, Again.

When The APA Denounces “Ex-Gay” Therapy What Are the RRRW Anti-Gays To Do? Lie, Of Course.

 

Someone decides to abstain from something because it’s not in line with their religious beliefs. That’s commonplace. But in this case it’s a Wiccan teenager sitting out Christmas songs.

Fifteen-year-old Katarina Keen won’t sing along to “Silent Night” or “Listen to the Stars,” two Christian songs planned for her choir’s upcoming Christmas concert at Borger High School. But she will sing “Jingle Bells” and “A Carol in Winter.”

Katarina and her family are Wiccan.
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While their Christian peers in Borger celebrate Christmas, the Keens are preparing for one of eight Wiccan holidays, the Yule, in celebration of the winter solstice Dec. 21.

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“Choral music has its roots in the church. In order to teach it accurately, you have to teach it from whence it came,” Miller said. “I teach the foundation or the building blocks so these students can go out with a well-rounded foundation in choral music.”
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Teaching the children about religious/church music and having them perform it are two completely different things. But considering what I discovered about Miller via Mojoey I’m not surprised he can’t tell the difference.

Of course the comments below the story are very telling. Where are the usual defenders of Religious Freedom? Oh, that’s right. Religious Freedom in this nation applies only to Christians.

 

I originally thought Merry Hyatt was just another person trying to cram Christianity into the CA public schools by force. It turns out that she’s also a Teabagger.

The Tea Party movement is supposed to be all about keeping the government out of your business. But if some California members get their way, the state will force public schoolchildren to sing Christmas carols.
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Merry Hyatt, a substitute teacher and member of the Redding Tea Party Patriots, is behind the push. The Record Searchlight reports:
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“We were having Christmas without Jesus,” Hyatt complained of her previous school district.

The initiative has the support of the local Tea Party Patriots president.

“Bottom line is Christmas is about Christmas,” said Erin Ryan, president of the Redding Tea Party Patriots. “That’s why we have it. It’s not about winter solstice or Kwanzaa. It’s like, ‘Wow you guys, it’s called Christmas for a reason.’ ”
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What can I say to such astounding ignorance and bigotry? Only a facepalm will do.

When I say young I mean it. Will Phillips is only ten-years old, but he’s intelligent and has taken on a fight beyond that which is typical of his years.

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It was during one of those drives that the discussion turned to the pledge of allegiance and what it means. Laura Phillips is Will’s mother. “Yes, my son is 10,” she said. “But he’s probably more aware of the meaning of the pledge than a lot of adults. He’s not just doing it rote recitation. We raised him to be aware of what’s right, what’s wrong, and what’s fair.”

Will’s family has a number of gay friends. In recent years, Laura Phillips said, they’ve been trying to be a straight ally to the gay community, going to the pride parades and standing up for the rights of their gay and lesbian neighbors. They’ve been especially dismayed by the effort to take away the rights of homosexuals – the right to marry, and the right to adopt. Given that, Will immediately saw a problem with the pledge of allegiance.
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After asking his parents whether it was against the law not to stand for the pledge, Will decided to do something. On Monday, Oct. 5, when the other kids in his class stood up to recite the pledge of allegiance, he remained sitting down. The class had a substitute teacher that week, a retired educator from the district, who knew Will’s mother and grandmother. Though the substitute tried to make him stand up, he respectfully refused. He did it again the next day, and the next day. Each day, the substitute got a little more cross with him. On Thursday, it finally came to a head. The teacher, Will said, told him that she knew his mother and grandmother, and they would want him to stand and say the pledge.
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Will was sent to the office, where he was given an assignment to look up information about the flag and what it represents. Meanwhile, the principal called his mother.
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“They [the kids who don’t support him] are much more crazy, and out of control and vocal about it than supporters are.”

Given that his protest is over the rights of gays and lesbians, the taunts have taken a predictable bent. “In the lunchroom and in the hallway, they’ve been making comments and doing pranks, and calling me gay,” he said. “It’s always the same people, walking up and calling me a gaywad.”
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What a nation we’re in. Exercise your legal right to abstain from the Pledge of Allegiance for ethical reasons and you’re made the victim of pranks and called names like gaywad. I’m quite proud of Will for standing up to those bullies. The more often people like him do that, the less effective their tactics will be.

It’s sad the prospect that others might have equal rights causes some to become such hateful monsters. But apparently their sense of self-worth is dependent on keeping others down. Thankfully Will Phillips is not one of those people, and that gives me a ray of hope in these bleak times.

 

We’ve been told repeatedly that same-sex marriage cannot be allowed because it would be “taught in schools” (whatever that means), thereby causing little Alma and Bryce have the vapors. Now Merry Susan Hyatt wants to indoctrinate California public school children into Christianity via mandatory Christmas music. I mean, hey, there’s nothing sectarian or controversial about requiring Christian dogma in a public school, is there?

As far as I’m concerned, if parents want little Alma and Bryce to learn about religion they have several options. They can teach that sort of thing at home, take the children to a “Youth Pastor”, find a suitable private school, or even locate one of those wild-eyed guys on the street who wear sandwich boards and rant about “the end times”. But religion does not belong in public schools on the taxpayer’s dime.

 

Thank you, Captain Obvious.

The education level of Florida voters, not race, best predicted support for the state’s gay marriage ban, according to a new University of Florida study rebutting conventional wisdom.

The study found education was about five times as important as race in determining whether a county’s residents favored the ban. The results contradict claims that newly registered black voters who cast ballots for Barack Obama were a socially conservative group that can be credited with passing the ban.
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Controlling for political and socioeconomic factors, the study found each additional 1 percent of a county’s population with bachelor’s degrees correlated with a 1 percent decrease in support for the amendment. In comparison, each 1 percent increase in a county’s black population led to two-tenths of a percent increase in support.

“There’s a lot of evidence showing increased education leads to greater tolerance,” Smith said.
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Just more proof that “Christian Home Schooling” and all the insistance that little Alma not hear the word gay from a teacher’s or peer’s lips in school has nothing to do with “protecting children” and everything to do with keeping them ignorant and programmed to hate.

 

This is why we simply must ban marriage, adoption and all other forms of rights for those evil gay people. They’re predators who use their positions of power to indoctrinate children!

The head football coach at Breckinridge County High School took about 20 players on a school bus late last month to his church, where nearly half of them were baptized, school officials say.

The mother of one player said her 16-year-old son was baptized without her knowledge and consent, and she is upset that a public school bus was used to take players to a church service — and that the school district’s superintendent was there and did not object.

“Nobody should push their faith on anybody else,” said Michelle Ammons, whose son, Robert Coffey, said Coach Scott Mooney told him and other players that the Aug. 26 outing would include only a motivational speaker and a free steak dinner.
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Two other parents, however, said in interviews that their sons told them that Mooney had said the voluntary outing to Franklin Crossroads Baptist Church in Hardin County would include a revival.
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David Friedman, general counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky, said in an interview that the trip would appear to violate Supreme Court edicts on the separation of church and state — even if it was voluntary and the school district didn’t pay for the fuel.

“If players want to attend the coach’s church and get baptized, that’s great,” Friedman said. But a coach cannot solicit player attendance at school, he said, noting, “Coaches have great power and persuasion by virtue of their position, and they have to stay neutral.”

My error. It wasn’t a gay coach “pushing his homosexuality” on the students. It was yet another case of children having religion pushed on them without their parents knowledge or consent. Sort of like the Gideons do every year across the nation.

 
Won’t somebody please think of the children? And where is the “Parental Rights” crowd when they’re actually needed? Oh, that’s right. “Parents’ rights” mean nothing when it comes to turning someone else’s children into little Godbots.