Don't Be H8N On The Homos

Activists from FCKH8.com yesterday handed out hundreds of t-shirts to Tennessee students in protest of the state's pending "Don't Say Gay" bill.

Angered at the progress that the proposed "Teachers Can't Talk About Gays" law has made in the Tennessee state senate, gay activists with the website FCKH8.com passed out hundreds of pro-gay T-shirts, wristbands, pins and stickers in front of TV cameras to school children on Tuesday morning in the state capital to protest the law which would make it a crime for teachers to discuss homosexuality. The website distributed gear from its line of "Don't B H8N on the Homos" products to crowds of cheering kids at Hume-Fogg high school which is just blocks from the senate building where the anti-gay law is scheduled to be voted on this Wednesday. The website is also donating $25,000 to the Tennessee Equality Project to fight the anti-gay agenda of the bill's sponsor Senator Stacy Campfield (R-TN).

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2011/05/tennessee-activists-give-kids-dont-be.html

(Check out the kids on the video at the link)

Excuse me while I piss all over the 1st Amendment.

Not the way it should be, but that IS the way that it is.

if more parents starting acting in loco parentis.

Only with the caveat that parents know in authentic parenting that their children do not belong to them to be made into little clones whose life purpose is to validate the parents' sacrifices. Parents should authentically free their children and that doesn't mean to do whatever, but to realize that freedom is constituted in the ability to say both yes and/or no, to be able to choose both to rebel and/or to conform at the appropriate moments in their own lives.

Public education has purposes beyond being official babysitters. Students are there for an education and for that education to be effective, teachers have to tell the truth. The 1st Amendment is a restriction on government's ability to suppress information or ideas. That is exactly what this proposed law aims to do.

During the WWI ERA, SCOTUS declared a state law unconstitutional that prohibited the teaching of German as an unjustified restriction on liberty.

relative to that principle, there's a big variety of ways one can teach whatever curriculum content, so parental objections can, at least in theory, be met with a wide variety of alternatives.