Gay Porn as Required Reading in Ill. High School, Media Silent

Newsbusters.org ^ | 3/12/08 | Warner Todd Huston

[Mobile Vulgus]

The story of an Illinois high school making a gay pornographic play required reading for seniors has been reported since March 7th, but it has been ignored for the most part with only a handful of news outlets having taken on this issue. The fact that a public high school that requires such reading doesn't raise a fuss in the media shows how the media supports the gay agenda, of course. It also shows the arrogance of the Deefield, Illinois school administrators that tried to slip this advocacy for homosexuality into the curriculum without bothering to sponsor a discussion on including it among the community that pays the taxes for the school district.

The book, "Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes," has numerous passages that describes gay sexual encounters in exacting, sometimes violent, detail.

Initially, this book was required reading for college-bound seniors, but a Deerfield community group was successful in getting the book removed from the required list and placed on an opt-in list.

Matt Barber, director of cultural issues with Concerned Women for America, was amazed by the explicit nature of the book.

Barber said, "This isn't a First Amendment issue. This is about school officials betraying the community trust. Heads need to roll here. Assigning this racist, pornographic smut to high school kids is nothing short of child abuse."

This same school district has been in hot water before for trying to slip in under the radar homosexual advocacy into the curriculum.

The school district and NSSA clashed last year over a freshman orientation session where students talked about bullying and other issues and included gay students relating their experience in high school.

And yet, the news media stays silent on this issue. It isn’t hard to understand why. The MSM wants neither to alert people who would stand against this effort nor report the success, even if minor, of these people trying to head off the instituting of the homosexual agenda in our schools.

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[Mobile Vulgus]

You should see the explicit sex descriptions in this thing. It's disgusting! I'd be against this if it were hetero, too, by the way.

[King of Florida]

I never read the book, but I actually thought the HBO megamovie was pretty good.

[catbertz]

So let me get this right. Schools are now banning skittles candy, and requiring gay porn? Got it.

[tennteacher]

Studies show that ACT scores rise when students are assigned rigorous reading material, much of it traditional classics- Shakespeare, Dickens, Fitzgerald. That assumes that the criteria for choice is education rather than social engineering.

[socialismisinsidious]

ping.

[stevio]

Sean Hannity doesn’t want to talk about this either, I got through the other day and again told there are more important things out there, like the election.

[kellynla]

another day, another reason to home school...

[Jeff Chandler]

YouTube has the trailer: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

[marron]

Barber said, "This isn't a First Amendment issue. This is about school officials betraying the community trust. Heads need to roll here. Assigning this racist, pornographic smut to high school kids is nothing short of child abuse."

How ever good or bad you remember public school to have been in your day, it is worse, there has been a step-change and it is way worse.

If you care about your kids and your grand-kids, get them out of public school. The public schools have no reason to change unless there is a groudswell of movement away from them. And even if such a groudswell never happens, you need to do what you can to save yours.

[tflabo]

How about preaching and ranting about the moral perversions
like this dragging ALL Americans down the sewer Rev. Jeremiah Wright? The liberals your congregation en masse votes for foists this trash on us....or did you teach Obama his version of ‘Sermon on the Mount’ giving credence to gay unions.

[what_not2007]

This world is becoming so corrupt, one day we’ll see another Sodom and Gomorrah.

If this is the way this world is headed, I’m not looking back toward Sodom.

[Digital Sniper]

Over here. Yet another reason to homeschool!

[Amendment10]

Romans 1:25-27 tells us that same-sex sexual relationships are a consequence of idolatry. In other words, such relationships are a consequence of disobeying the 1ST COMMANDMENT, a major aspect of the GREATEST COMMANDMENT, to love the jealous God with all your being.

Homosexuals need to keep in mind, however, that the good news of the gospel is not about how God despises same-sex sexual relationships. In fact, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 indicates that certain members of that church had been slaves to such relationships but had been cleansed in Jesus' name. So these former homosexual had evidently repented and accepted God's grace to straighten their lives out.

John 3:16
Revelation 3:20

[brwnsuga]

Uhh, they would have to provide my children with an alternate book.

[EagleUSA]

If I had to educate my two children again, they would NEVER SET FOOT IN A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL in spite of the socialists trying to FORCE everyone into their indoctrination camps. Liberal filth.

[metmom]

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And those defending allowing porn like this to be available to kids in schools have already been out in force on FR.

[Digital Sniper]

And those defending allowing porn like this to be available to kids in schools have already been out in force on FR.

*boggle* Who the devil could even think of defending that? Sweet mercy...

[metmom]

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

I don't believe the framers of the Constitution ever intended this First Amendment to protect this kind of garbage.

My understanding of the First Amendment was to protect POLITICAL speech, criticism of the government and elected officials; not to let any kind of sewage promoted as *literature* to be foisted on the public under the guise of *free speech*. I think they would have been mortified if they realized how that amendment would have been misused.

Censorship isn't all bad. Some things deserve to be censored.

Heck, even the left is in favor it it when they try to ban books like the Bible and To Kill a Mockingbird. They only are against censorship when they agree with something. When they disagree, they are pro-censorship themselves.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

“Over here. Yet another reason to homeschool!”.....

You would rather your kids go to homeschool and not homoschool?

[Liberty2007]

we have no one to blame but ourselves. see maybe a school district has 1200 students, there may be 200 or so concerned,caring parents(that’s probably high) the school district isn’t going to give a rip about 200 people.Quite frankly if people dont care about their own damn kids why should I?

[metmom]

It was on another thread about the same topic.

Allegedly the book had some redeeming value as it dealt with important issues of our day. No reason given, though, of why pornographic, detailed descriptions of said activity contributed to the book.

Too many stories and books with great story lines have been ruined by adding porn. Somehow in people’s twisted thinking, stuff like that *spices up* a story and they think that people will be more likely to buy it.

I think that if someone wants to read or watch something like that, they can go out and get it. Adding stuff like that doesn’t make me more likely to get if because it’s in there; it makes me less likely to get it. There’s lots of stuff I don’t bother with even though the story line sounds great because of all the junk they add.

[M203M4]

This - the outright indoctrination of children - is the lifeblood of leftism. Especially today, with record childlessness amongst leftists, their primary mechanism for social engineering is the public school curriculum. The media is merely insurance, or acts as a reinforcement ("cultural homework").

Among leftists, there is hostility directed at the very notion that children should be primarily socialized by their families, and not by agents operating under government mandate.

We are fighting the debate over school choice, for example, on the grounds of improving the learning environment (with respect to enhanced preparation for college and employment), with an eye to curtailing the rampant leftist social indoctrination. To the leftist, the foremost concerns are equality (equal outcome trumps optimal outcome - small standard deviation being viewed as more important than a higher mean or median) and the socialist/leftist indoctrination itself. The whole point for them is to eliminate school choice - their very goal is to suppress parental input, and to make as much as possible uniform and compulsory.

Leftism highly parasitic, with its primary vector being the government. We are the hosts. In a genuinely free market of ideas where government coercion is extremely limited (i.e. limited only by dissuading those actions and which would infringe upon our negative rights), leftism would go extinct. School choice (for example, a process we could begin by introducing a voucher system) is a direct threat to the perpetuation of an entire political philosophy.

[Balding_Eagle]

Sean Hannity doesn’t want to talk about this either, I got through the other day and again told there are more important things out there, like the election.

I don't listen to Hannity, but it is an interesting question, which IS more important, this story, or the election?

Hmmm, that's a tough one.

[stevio]

They're both important issues. I was able to get through to his show a couple of times and was told the same thing each time. They can't squeeze an issue like this in in 3hrs? They're are silenced by the gaystapo, and they're too scared to even bring it up.

P.S. I try to get through to Rush but he's tougher to get into.

[Balding_Eagle]

I’ve watched Hannity on TV, he’s hardly ‘silenced by the gaystapo’. quite the opposite, he gets energized by that stuff.

Pick your battles, trying to get this issue out now is beyond foolish. It’s like trying to get the fire department to put out a piece of paper that’s on fire while the whole city block is going up in flames.

[stevio]

He talks about the homosexual indoctrination on T.V.? Hannity and Colmes or Hannity’s America?

[Eva]

I remember reading an article about the fact that just reading the Norton Reader could bring your GRE scores up significantly.

[Balding_Eagle]

I think Hannity has on TV, in the evening. I know he’s grilled more than one school type on the show in the past.

What’s you point? To try and get this on while the whole block is going up in flames is the act of a fool.

[metmom]

So you don’t think that schools pushing a homosexual gay agenda on kids isn’t important?

These kids are the future of our country. The left knows if they can get them now, they’ve got the next several decades sewed up. That’s why they’re trying so hard.

Sorry, I consider the corruption and indoctrination of our youth to be a very serious issue. It’s something we WILL pay for down the road.

[stevio]

What are you talking about? You’re saying that during 6hrs of talk radio (I listen to Rush and Hannity) that don’t have time to mention the indoctrination of our kids? Ok, this one may be a little issue, but they’re doing this all over the place. And I’ll bet you he’s never grilled a school official specifically about homosexuality in the schools. Only a fool closes his eyes to reality.

[Balding_Eagle]

I never said it wasn’t an important issue, it is.

However, it pales in comparison to the presidential race, much like that piece of paper I referred to as the whole block is going up in wild flames.

They aren’t going to take this issue up on national talk radio. The whole Dem party is becoming engaged in a bitter race war, and our radio guys are (rightfully) focused on fanning those flames with all their might.

This can burn everyone on the Left, included the folks who are pushing the school agenda you are worried about. If we had a conservative candiate, we could even put those guys out of business.

Back up a bit and see the big picture.

[Balding_Eagle]

Plus, these kids aren’t the future of our country.

The kids who are the future of our country are homeschooled and private schooled.

Most of these kids are lost.

[stevio]

This afternoon Rush mentioned the woman who was stuck to the toilet seat for 2yrs. Surely this isn’t more important than homosexuality in our schools.

[Tired of Taxes]

I just did a search and read some more excerpts from this book. They’re so disgusting that I won’t even link to them from here. Sick, sick, sick.

[Balding_Eagle]

It isn’t, but please stop and think before posting, you are beginning to look foolish.

I didn’t hear it, but I’m sure it was included as a bit a light humor.

[LibertyRocks]

As if there were not a bevy of wonderful classics they should be exposed to!

How incredibly sad that these children - instead of being presented with “hard-core” intellectual literature, they are instead being pushed to read “hard-core” pornography under the guise of “literature” and an “education”. Simply pathetic!

[Clintonfatigued]

But you can bet that they won’t be eating Skittles while reading it!

; )

[stevio]

I see, if the right-wing talkers talk about it, then it’s important enough to talk about and I should patiently wait. I’m guessing you don’t have school age kids so you don’t really care about it do you?

[Balding_Eagle]

I have grandkids who are the future of this country, and with that age I was fortunate enough to obtain wisdom.

There is no need for you to wait patiently for the present crowd of talk show hosts to talk about whatever you want to have talked about. This is America. Start your own show and talk about this subject. It is an important subject.

[wintertime]

I never read the book, but I actually thought the HBO megamovie was pretty good.
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Ok,,,I will defend your right to see it, and the right of you to give permission to your children to see it.

I will NOT defend the government forcing this on other people's children! I object to the government forcing taxpayers to pay for the government **forcing** it on other parent's children!

Government schools are NOT optional! The only option a parent and taxpayer has is to submit to the heavy jack boot of the government school gestapo or face prison.

Even if this book is optional, the government TRASHES the First Amendment Rights of parents and children by FORCING them into associating with other children who have read the book and will be discussing it. ( Violation of free assembly).

It is also a violation of the establishment of religion. The government is **establishing** the religious worldview of some parents and COMPLETELY TRASHING that of others.

Oh...and please don't say that parents have the “choice” to privately or home school their children. What these parents are doing is **RANSOMING** their children from the godless, Marxist, Secular Humanist clutches of the homosexuals and liberal/Marxists running the government indoctrination camps. These parents are essentially paying a freedom of religion and freedom of conscience TAX!!!!!

Government schools are an abomination!!!

[wintertime]

Sean Hannity doesn’t want to talk about this either,
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This week I listened to Sean talk with Newt Gingrich. They spent more than 15 minutes making small talk about their wives! It could have been more, because I finally arrived at my destination and ( in DISGUST!!!) turned off the radio.

There is plenty of time to discuss these school issues! Rush, Sean, and OReilly are NOT doing it because:

1) They are stupid.
2) They are afraid of being hounded and persecuted by the homosexual activists.
3) They don't want to offend their audience of which most use the government schools.

What STOOOOPID WEENIES!

As for this being an election year:

Are you aware of Steven Covey's idea?

Urgent and important.
Urgent and not important
Not urgent and unimportant.
Not urgent BUT **VERY** IMPORTANT!!!( It is this category that usually needs the most attention!)

These school issues far under the category of “Not Urgent but VERY, VERY, VERY IMPORTANT!” The Marxists are doing all they can to indoctrinate the next generation of voters. We WILL LOSE OUR FREEDOM IN THE VOTING BOOTH!!! And,,,The 3 most important people in the conservative media are ASLEEP!!!!!

I am exasperated!

[darkangel82]

This is what happens when obscenity laws aren’t enforced.

[Balding_Eagle]

You should have added number 4. they can only handle so much really heavy topics, and want some relief/levity.

The Dem Party is burning down ALL of the houses on their block. That hasn’t happened for at least 40 years, and maybe longer. The blaze is absolutely spectacular!

Our guys might be able to keep pushing Liberals into the fire for another 3 or 4 or even 5 months!

Nothing else matters.

The public schools are lost anyway, shove them over the cliff.

[plan2succeed.org]

Newsbusters is claiming the media is complicit here.

Curiously, here is an article about how the media is complicit in the ex-NY Governor Eliot Spitzer debacle. Are there similarities?

Spitzer's Media Enablers, by Kimberley A. Strassel, Wall Street Journal, March 12, 2008, p.A21

And I have written about the misleading media as well: Library Filtering Legislation Needed, Chicago Daily Herald, February 21, 2008.

Could there be a pattern?

[shibumi]

"So let me get this right. Schools are now banning skittles candy, and requiring gay porn? Got it."



All in the good cause of raising a nation filled with healthier perverts.

[long hard slogger]

Tiny sliver of silver lining here: A significant number of the kids in the gov’mint schools can’t read anyway

[GATOR NAVY]

Sean Hannity doesn’t want to talk about this either...

Hannity is an idiot. I heard about this on Laura Ingraham.

[wintertime]

I heard about this on Laura Ingraham

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Good for her! She's no weenie!

[The_Repugnant_Conservative]

As a play can it really be much worse than depictions in some versions of Gilgamesh?

I am trying to picture a play instructing Actor A to thrust his manhood into actor B. Just can’t wrap my head around the idea that such a thing could exist on Broadway or anyplace else outside a Redlight district.

[apocalypto]

Inexcusable!