Who’s obsessed with sex?
A man has been arrested in Massachusetts for failing to vacate school property.
He was apparently upset about a book about families that included a family headed by a gay couple. "It is not that I don't want my child to ever learn it, it is I want to control the timing and manner." Learn what exactly? It is a fact that there are children with gay parents attending that school. Should children of gay parents also be slapped with a gag order preventing them from talking about their life at home so that Mr. Parker can "control the timing and manner" that his child learns about the existance of gay couples? That hardly seems equitable. Perhaps we should forbid all children from speaking about their home life so that no one ever hears anything their parents don't want them to hear, so that no one ever feels left out or unwelcome.
I hope that sounds as blindingly stupid to everyone else as it does to me. I've written on this subject before. This country is turning into a bunch of cowardly lions. They roar all day long about how strong they are and must be in withstanding [their definition of] the evils of this world, but should they actually have to confront any of said evils, they put their tail between their legs and run, afraid their valor will desert them in the face of temptation. Are we really so insecure that we cannot face opinions contrary to our own? Are we really such fragile flowers that any negative opinon expressed is devestating? Kids can be mean. I'm sure many a child has come home from school crying over some hateful barb flung in their face. Isn't it part of raising children that we instill in them the strength of character that allows them to withstand such attacks with aplomb? Apparently we don't want our children strong. We want them sheltered and weak.
But wait! It gets even better. Governor "Bonehead" Romney weighed in on the matter.
We have in Massachusetts a parental notification statute specifically in matters related to human sexuality. If a parent wants to be informed of what is being taught in a classroom and wants to have their child withdrawn from the classroom for that portion of the class dealing with human sexuality, that parent has the right.
So the book in question was a sex manual? Are Governor "Bonehead" Romney and Mr. Parker trying to tell us that they have sat down with their grade school children and discussed the "facts of life?" They have explained that inserting a penis into a vagina—over and over, usually accompanied by grunting or moaning with the occasional scream of ecstacy—is where babies come from? They have explained that parents do this on a regluar basis, even when the addition of a new baby brother or sister is not specifically on the agenda? I didn't think so.
Romney, do yourself a favor. Shut up.