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changeyourstars8) wrote2005-12-09 04:46 pm
changeyourstars8) wrote2005-12-09 04:46 pm
Because it made me giggle...
So apparently some parents in Rhode Island are worried that their high-schoolers shouldn't go on a class trip to see RENT. They might not be able to deal with the "in-your-face glorification of homosexuality and lesbianism." (quote from Focus on the Family)
Please. I became a fan of the musical (and the Broadway version is quite a bit raunchier than the movie) when I was fourteen or fifteen. Of course, I doubt that Dobson and his ilk would look at me and see anything good, so. . .
Anyway, I could get into a huge rant about how Christianity is supposed to be about loving your neighbor and being kind to people, etc. and etc., rather than finding a new 'oh my goodness see look the gay people are everywhere eeeeeeek' target every other day, but I'd rather just post this:
Jesus Bans 'Christian' Group Focus on the Family
When the news reached Focus on the Family's Colorado Springs headquarters, stunned members were seen running into walls and bashing their foreheads with large Bibles and ramming their Toyota Corollas and Ford pickups into each other and muttering incoherent lines from "Passion of the Christ" and popping Prozac like M&M's.
Please. I became a fan of the musical (and the Broadway version is quite a bit raunchier than the movie) when I was fourteen or fifteen. Of course, I doubt that Dobson and his ilk would look at me and see anything good, so. . .
Anyway, I could get into a huge rant about how Christianity is supposed to be about loving your neighbor and being kind to people, etc. and etc., rather than finding a new 'oh my goodness see look the gay people are everywhere eeeeeeek' target every other day, but I'd rather just post this:
Jesus Bans 'Christian' Group Focus on the Family
When the news reached Focus on the Family's Colorado Springs headquarters, stunned members were seen running into walls and bashing their foreheads with large Bibles and ramming their Toyota Corollas and Ford pickups into each other and muttering incoherent lines from "Passion of the Christ" and popping Prozac like M&M's.
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As for what's taught in the schools . . . that one was probably my fault-- in the article I read about it, it came across that some parents were against the movie simply because of what Dobson said the content was, without actually seeing it for themselves or at least listening to some of the songs, etc. I'm sure some of them did do that, but others probably did do a bit more research, and for lumping them in with the first group, I'm sorry.
I do think that parents know better than the schools what their children can handle and are ready for. The people who start in on how since they don't think *their* kid is ready, this shouldn't be available for *any* child at the schools are the ones I have a problem with, and not making that clearer was my mistake.