During homecoming week at my high school we did something wild every day...including cross dressing day. So, this hick school in East Texas has decided to go from cross dressing to youth militias...based on the complaint of one ass****. I hope her kids grow up to be the nelliest queer and butchest dyke on earth!

CNN Story

Those nutty red states.

So... putting on one costume to be silly and switch roles for a day is immoral... but everyone is ok with all the kids dressing up in Black Camo (not hunting camo mind you) and acting militaristic?... after Columbine?

Do they hand out toy AK's too?

Rob

Schools in one west coast location banned Halloween celebrations and costumes by school kids because they feared this would offend witches (wiccans).

The University of Washington will no longer have a homecoming king and queen but instead will have two people chosen as "non-gender-specific royalty." The University made this change because they did not wish to offend members of either sex who might otherwise be stigmatized.

Political correctness gone amuck here. Note: Both occurred in blue states. We're turning the corner on tolerance in blue states.

Sidebar! Judge, you are a "professional" and you know you should always back up your argument. So, please bring forth verifiable story links to these accusations or your testimony will be stricken from the record.

Search either of Chicago's two newspapers, where this info appeared a couple weeks ago or so. I know that one of these appeared under Zay Smith's QT column. I wouldn't post this stuff unless it was factual. I'm not Raze you know, or Dan Blather or CNN for that matter. wink

[ November 17, 2004, 09:36 PM: Message edited by: MIB ]

No MIB, but you can always dream.

I had heard that the court system was backed up, I guess not in IL, OH, DC or wherever you are today. Lots of posts for someone who is just "popping in."

For the record - cancelling Halloween or ending gender distinctions like UW did are idiotic, but at least their hearts are in the right place.

What they are trying to do is be too accommodating - to live by the true American ideals of tolerance and diversity. I agree they are going about it all wrong (certainly an intersexed person should have the right to run for either king or queen, though), but I think it's a world of difference from the people, like these in Texas, who are trying to hide the real world from their children.

From what I read about the UW thing is the homecoming royalty get a scholarship prize of some sort and the committee selects based on merit. The committee decided it was unfair to award a prize based on gender and decided to give the award to the two most deserving regardless of sex. Last year the winners were one male one female. This year I believe were two women.

Google knows all and sees all:
Seattle Times

No big whoop.

Ironic that a PLANO based group came to the town's rescue. Most parents in Plano spend their time turning a blind eye to the drug problems of their children, who are well known heroin and steroid users in the state. We'd much rather have our kids wearing camo and shooting up speed than wearing a dress.

I guess it's an American thing.

But every high school student had a full camo outfit?

Do they ALL have Cabela's catelogues?

Hell, around here you can buy camo at Walmart.

Good God! I don't need any more nightmares. eek!

Why does all the stupid stuff seem to happen in my state of Texas? It's no wonder that people think we are all dumb, inbred, hillbillies...hell, come to think of it. That description perfectly captures the people from my small hometown in East Texas...

Just make Texas its own country, so I can move and everyone here can be stupid and weird together...

What should we expect from a state that created George W. Bush.

Declaration of Independence banned because it contains a reference to God.

Why doesn't it surprise me that this happened in the Granola State?

There's more to this than a simple question of religious intolerance. Why did the principal feel the need in the first place to monitor his handouts? Why is his status as a Christian relevant? If he was using historical documents as evangelical tools in a public school, he should have been fired, not monitored closely.

Even more political incorrectness:

Schoolchildren in Maryland will be allowed to study the story of the first Thanksgiving, officials ruled, as long as the Pilgrims' faith in God is not mentioned.

A proposed outdoor statue of Hebe, the Greek goddess of youth, in Roseburg, OR., is being reconsidered because it might offend members of other religions.

The intellectual incapacity of the education establishment never ceases to amaze - and disgust - me. This is just poor judgment by those who should know better. What part about "historical fact" don't they understand?

My Dad was a HS math teacher for 40+ years - and a good one, having led his union local at one time. But he was the first to open my eyes to the inadequacy of too many teachers - and that was over 30 years ago! Since then, things have only gotten worse, as teacher education standards in the colleges and universities have continued to decline and we keep pumping out additional classes of the unprepared - at both ends of the education process. If we're serious about reforming public education - the private schools already get to pick - and pay for - the cream of the crop, two things are needed: increased teacher salaries AND vastly increased teacher selection, education and qualification before they're even allowed to step into a classroom.

Texas was its own country once for like a grand total of 9 years. I heard that didnt work out too well Its been a part of 6 nations as it were (Spain, France, Mexico, The Republic of Texas, the Confederacy and the good ol USA).

And on to more Plano fun news, a woman just chopped her baby's arms off. Yeeee haw!

Actually, the usual objections to Halloween celebrations are from evangelical/fundamentalist Christians who say Halloween promotes "the occult" or "satanism" (and often throw in apocryphal stories of ritual sexual abuse of children) or, more subtly, who say Halloween is a pagan/Wiccan holiday and therefore constitutes establishment of religion and therefore infringes on theirs. The former argument is debatable, but the "establishment" argument has some validity unless holidays of all religions are acknowledged more or less equally.

Anyway, the usual response to these complaints is to limit Halloween observances to pumpkins and mass quantities of candy (wrapped, of course ... remember the tampering panic of the '80s?). Gotta keep the dentists in business.

The so-called Christian right has a bigger persecution complex than any other religious group in America today, bar none. I speak from experience. eek!

This post was lifted word-for-word from the Chicago Sun-Times. Would that be copyright infringement or a case of plagiarism?

In the Oregon flap, the complaints about the statue of Hebe are coming from -- guess who? That's right, concerned "Christians"! Apparently they consider "goddess worship" to be religiously incorrect...

Not when one states its source, which I alluded to earlier. wink

And here's some more from the same source:

The South Orange/Maplewood School District, which earlier announced that schoolchildren would not be allowed to sing Christmas carols or other Christmas songs, informs the district's student bands that they may not perform any songs whose lyrics, although not sung, contain any references to Christmas or Santa Claus, in deference to non-Christians who might be offended.

Ho, ho, ho!
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Lawyers were brought in before the Lincoln-Franklin Elementary School in Garwood, N.J., allowed the word ''God'' to be placed back into a 10-year-old girl's in-class poem, which reads, ''Pilgrims thank God for what they were given/Everybody say Happy Thanksgiving!''

They do, actually (see my previous post).

In the name of Jesus, of course.

According to court records, (she) referenced Scripture the night before the killing and said she wanted to "give her child to God." - Ft Worth Star-Telegram, 11/25/04