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You guys are mean...

bedstuy wrote:

Cyberpawz wrote:

bedstuy wrote:

Perhaps.  Then again I haven't a clue about the meaning of life...

No you don't have a clue about history.

No, you don't have a clue how to speak English.

Ohhh, good comback.  So then I take it I was right, you are bound to repeat history because you never learned from it.  Tis a shame really, but again not amazing, since you are so blinded by hatred.

PBS pulls cartoon

The nation's new education secretary denounced PBS on Tuesday for spending public money on a cartoon with lesbian characters, saying many parents would not want children exposed to such lifestyles.

The not-yet-aired episode of Postcards From Buster shows the title character, an animated bunny named Buster, on a trip to Vermont, the only state in which same-sex civil unions can be performed. The episode features two lesbian couples, although the focus is on farm life and maple sugaring.

A PBS spokesman said late Tuesday that the nonprofit network has decided not to distribute the episode, titled "Sugartime!" to its 349 stations.

Education secretary Margaret Spellings said the "Sugartime!" episode does not fulfill the intent Congress had in mind for programming. By law, she said, any funded shows must give top attention to "research-based educational objectives, content, and materials."

"Many parents would not want their young children exposed to the lifestyles portrayed in the episode," Spellings wrote in a letter sent Tuesday to Pat Mitchell, president and chief executive officer of PBS.

"Congress's and the Department's purpose in funding this programming certainly was not to introduce this kind of subject matter to children, particularly through the powerful and intimate medium of television."

She asked PBS to consider refunding the money it spent on the episode.

With her letter, Spellings has made criticism of the publicly funded program's depiction of gay people one of her first acts as secretary. She began on Monday, replacing Rod Paige as President Bush's education chief.

Spellings issued three requests to PBS.

She asked that her department's seal or any statement linking the department to the show be removed. She asked PBS to notify its member stations of the nature of show so they could review it before airing it. And she asked for the refund "in the interest of avoiding embroiling the Ready-to-Learn program in a controversy that will only hurt" it.

In closing, she warned, "You can be assured that in the future the department will be more clear as to its expectations for any future programming that it funds."

In the show, Buster carries a digital video camera and explores regions, activities, and people of different backgrounds and religions. On the episode in question, "the fact that there is a family structure that is objectionable to the Department of Education is not at all the focus of the show, nor is it addressed in the show," said Sloan of PBS.

Talk about dredging up a dead topic...

The article was posted less than one month ago. I have no time for trolling.

"Our findings help explain why so many people still hold on to damaging old fictions and profound misunderstandings about our GLBT family members and friends," said Ron Schlittler, PFLAG's executive director. "Misinformation goes unchallenged because accurate information is virtually banned in our schools."

While the assessment indicated a growing awareness of GLBT safe-schools issues, results also showed critical deficiencies in support of GLBT youths. Some important findings include:

(1) 95% of school counseling services had little or no gay, lesbian, or bisexual resources;

(2) 99% of school counseling services had little or no transgender resources;

(3) 70% had no training for educators or staff on how to stop GLBT bullying;

(4) 92% had no training for students on how to stop GLBT bullying;

(5) 84% had little or no resources for parents about GLBT issues;

(6) 59% did not include gay, lesbian, or bisexual students in their harassment or nondiscrimination policies; and

(7) 75% did not include gender identity or expression in their harassment or nondiscrimination policies.

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At every level, gay people are made invisible by the Bush administration, and only referred to abstractly.

A Jewish reporter who infiltrated a Pennsylvania hate group, met a member who said she'd kill any Jew or gay person she met. When asked if she had met any, she said no.

XYZ wrote:

The article was posted less than one month ago. I have no time for trolling.

"Our findings help explain why so many people still hold on to damaging old fictions and profound misunderstandings about our GLBT family members and friends," said Ron Schlittler, PFLAG's executive director. "Misinformation goes unchallenged because accurate information is virtually banned in our schools."

While the assessment indicated a growing awareness of GLBT safe-schools issues, results also showed critical deficiencies in support of GLBT youths. Some important findings include:

(1) 95% of school counseling services had little or no gay, lesbian, or bisexual resources;

(2) 99% of school counseling services had little or no transgender resources;

(3) 70% had no training for educators or staff on how to stop GLBT bullying;

(4) 92% had no training for students on how to stop GLBT bullying;

(5) 84% had little or no resources for parents about GLBT issues;

(6) 59% did not include gay, lesbian, or bisexual students in their harassment or nondiscrimination policies; and

(7) 75% did not include gender identity or expression in their harassment or nondiscrimination policies.

link
At every level, gay people are made invisible by the Bush administration, and only referred to abstractly.

A Jewish reporter who infiltrated a Pennsylvania hate group, met a member who said she'd kill any Jew or gay person she met. When asked if she had met any, she said no.

You mean she never met a happy person in her life? What a sad person...

oatmeal wrote:

This thread is technically not a zombie; the last post in it before XYZ woke it up again was less than a month ago and we've defined zombie threads as having the last post over two months ago.

On-topic posts would be nice from here.

That's being overly generous if you ask me...

iBubba wrote:

Cyberpawz wrote:

You mean she never met a happy person in her life? What a sad person...

Joke or serious? Either way, poor taste.

It's called Tongue in Cheek humor.

But in any case, why call a kettle anything but black... you or XYZ aren't talking about happy people that's for sure, you are talking about homosexuals.  Call it as it is, or don't say anything about it.  I hate the bastardization of the American English language that has been happening for the past decade.

If you kill yourself, you fail at life.

-Tim

XYZ wrote:

HeadonaStick wrote:

XYZ wrote:

Gender and sexual orientation are not the same thing.

He said they were comparable, not that they were the same thing.

And yet, he's still wrong.

Homosexuality is not a matter of choice, and it's not determined by socialization. If that were true, you wouldn't have homosexuals in societies like Taliban Afghanistan where they were crushed in public with boulders, or in Saudi Arabia where they are beheaded in public. And, you'd have a larger homosexual percentage in countries that appreciate homosexuals.

In reality, the percentage of homosexuals in a population is not determined by social mores.

You've missed his point entirely it seems.

Gender is not a matter of choice, and it's not determined by socialization. If that were true, you wouldn't have women in societies like Taliban Afghanistan where they were crushed in public with boulders, or in Saudi Arabia where they are beheaded in public. And, you'd have a larger women percentage in countries that appreciate homosexuals.

He didn't say being gay was a choice, in fact he implied that, like gender, it is inherent, but that letting it define your life is the source of many of our problems.

XYZ wrote:

Gender is not a matter of choice, and it's not determined by socialization.

A large portion of gender is determined by social mores. Gender is "masculinity" and "femininity".

If that were true, you wouldn't have women in societies like Taliban Afghanistan.

Sex and gender are two different things.
People don't choose what sex they're born as.
People also don't choose their sexual orientation.
Gender is malleable to a point, and there is quite a bit of innate diversity.
Sexual behavior can be influenced by social mores, like gender.
The existence of varying degrees of bisexuality doesn't make sexual orientation something that's defined by social mores.

What a perfect example of contradictions.

Cyberpawz wrote:

I hate the bastardization of the American English language that has been happening for the past decade.

That's beautiful.

KingFred wrote:

Damn you Tallgeese... I was gonna add that snippet to mysig.

And it just keeps getting better... "What a perfect example of contradictions". Pure comedy genius.

That would be a good member title.