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Remember Constance McMillen? She’s the student that was banned from escorting her girlfriend to the senior prom in Mississippi. The local branch of the A.C.L.U jumped to her defense and petitioned the school on her behalf. School officials responded that same-sex dates (not to mention tuxedo-wearing females) were against school policy. The civil rights organization shot back that said policy was unconstitutional. End result: the prom was canceled for everyone. Luckily for Constance (and all non-heterosexual kids), the A.C.L.U. wants to continue to fight the fight.
Two years ago, the world (and Oprah) was introduced to Thomas Beatie, the former woman who became the first known transgendered man to give birth. Now Mr. Beatie and wife Nancy have a third bun in the oven.
In case you were wondering why wife Nancy hasn’t taken a turn at the mothering post, she is unable to have children due to hysterectomy.
Earlier this year, Alameda Unified School District, just across the bay from San Francisco and, undoubtedly, home to many school children with gay and lesbian parents, approved a curriculum that teaches tolerance of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered members of the community. Two board members, however, voted against the program, one because the curriculum is not comprehensive enough — she felt it should have included race and religion — and the other because there was no opt-out provision. The latter issue prompted the Pacific Justice Institute to file a lawsuit on behalf of parents who, I guess, want their children to think it’s okay to bully kids based on sexual identity and gender preference.
You know all those schools being sued for NOT protecting kids from bullying? A California school district is another boat going in the other direction. Parents are suing the Alameda schools for requiring their kids learn to BE NICE to other kids. Gasp!
Of course these kids aren’t any old kids – they’re lesbian, gay and transgender kids who the school district dares to think should be protected from getting their asses kicked on the playground. Continue reading »
A WNBA team has decided my kid needs to be protected from lesbians and kissing. And maybe a little bit of both.
Note to self: put a call in to the gay community to rustle up some liplocking lezzies stat. Then we’re off to a Washington Mystics game, my child in tow! Continue reading »
A woman who left her wife to convert to evangelical Christianity is now facing jail . . . because she doesn’t think the Vermont courts have the right to force her to send a little girl conceived during their relationship to visit her ex-girlfriend. Continue reading »
There’s been a lively debate going on over at my post about a judge who ruled that a man’s children couldn’t be “exposed” to his gay friends. And one of the biggies is the assertion by several Babble readers that they wouldn’t allow someone (gay or straight) to hold hands in front of their kids.
So I’m wondering, Babble readers, where do you draw the line?
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