Posted on 03/10/2008 8:36:15 AM PDT by bs9021
School-Sponsored Smut
by: Bethany Stotts, March 10, 2008
A new genre has been added to the list of promoted high school literature: racist gay porn. Deerfield High School of Deerfield, Illinois decided to integrate the Pulitzer Award-winning play, Angels in America: a Gay Fantasia On National Themes into its curriculum. The play features pervasive swearing, graphic sexual content, bigoted remarks, and involves sexual experiences profaning both angels and the Mother Theresa. If high schools are sensitive about assigning Mark Twain’s great classic, Huckleberry Finn, due to its pejorative language, then why is Deerfield High promoting Angels in America?
The book was actually required reading at Deerfield High until recently, but the school demoted it to an “optional title” after parents filed a formal complaint. This means that students who are willing to read the book can still receive course credit for it.
The Illinois Family Institute, which has launched a campaign against the book, provides excerpts (warning: extremely explicit content) from the book and estimates that the book contains 221 vulgar words. “The school justifies this egregious choice because of its themes of hope. Evidently, all great literature with themes of hope have already been exhausted so teachers need to start offering pornography. We say—enough,” Executive Director of North Shore Student Advocacy, Lora Sue Hauser, told IFI.
The Tennessee Herald-Citizen has come out in favor of Angels in America, publishing both a favorable review and article about the play’s local performance this February. Andrew William Smith, an English instructor for Tennessee Technological University describes the play and its characters as “epic,” “complex and controversial,” “profound” and “dynamic.” “Confronting issues such as gays, Republicans and gay Republicans, the play hilariously combines fantasy and reality, politics and pop culture, spirituality and sexuality,” he writes....
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreportonline.net ...
What, no gay Democrats? How bigoted and homophobic of the book's author! /s
Hmmm . . . Christian-bashing is OK, Muslim-bashing it not. I wonder why? (sarcasm)
>If high schools are sensitive about assigning Mark Twain’s great classic, Huckleberry Finn, due to its pejorative language, then why is Deerfield High promoting Angels in America?<<
Hucklberry Finn should not be censored either.
And as I mentioned in the other thread, the two main themes are McCarthyism and AIDs not being taken seriously enough themes it never helps to censor.
gay Democrats - would be redundant.......
As though Gay Reality isn't graphic enough.
After completely losing my breakfast over the excerpts, I guess you have to get to the last page before "hope" sneaks into the mix.
Oh, c’mon. I’m deep inside the monkey house of American education, and the answer is simple. There are two sets of rules - one for the Left, and one for everyone else. If the Left likes something, then it receives an appropriate adjective - provacative, thoughtful, insightful. If the others like it, then there are other adjectives - racist, bigoted, sexist, exclusionary, oppressive.
It’s possible to think like this when you believe that there is no truth, just your truth and my truth, based on our race, ethnicity, gender, and historical circumstance.
Because Its All About Sex. Graphic sexual content will always trump any other difficulties a work of “art” may have. Just ask yourself, “Would this upset my Mom and Dad?” and if the answer is YES, then IT’S IN!
Remember, it’s all about Toddler Liberation (term coined by P.J. O’Rourke)!
It’s obvious now. The left is doing everything it can to destroy the family and encourage relations that can never lead to reproduction.
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I'm willing to bet that in the little red school house down on the “Animal Farm” one of those two sets of rules is more equal than the other!
Oink!
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