Friday, May 19, 2006
Truth, Life, and Political Honesty
Truth, Life, and Political Honesty by Mark Glesne and "The California Homosexual Activists' Assault on Schoolchildren"
I've read and commented on the article written by Ben, posted on Mark's blog and it was significantly devoid of flaming rhetoric against homosexuality and against their ways until you read about....oh, two sentences into the article and land on this clause from the article about the Bill which reads:
Would the school governing boards really use Allen Ginsburg, cartooned into a children's book, as an educational tool? Yes, and why should he not? I do remember that Thomas Jefferson was lauded as a great man of virtue, intelligence, and patriotism, and yet, if we want to go down that road of infamy, he was the owner of hundreds of slaves, and had an affair with a mullatto slave of his...That was not "traditionally moral" if you ask me, and yet, we don't see books destroying his reputation or slathering mold over his patriotism, we just see the great accomplishments of his time, as children should see in Allen Ginsburg, or perhaps, Shakespeare (if anything). And yes, I believe that homosexuals have a long road to trudge through, and mistakes have been made, accusations have been flung, fingers pointed, and yet, they are victims of extreme prejudice in our country even if the media ignores this fact.
I've read and commented on the article written by Ben, posted on Mark's blog and it was significantly devoid of flaming rhetoric against homosexuality and against their ways until you read about....oh, two sentences into the article and land on this clause from the article about the Bill which reads:
According to the California Senate Judiciary Committee, "The bill also would direct the school governing boards to include only instructional material that accurately portrays the cultural, racial, gender and sexual diversity of our society, and, in instructional material for the social sciences, include the contributions of people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender to the economic, political and social development of California and the United States of America." Grade level is not specified in the bill, so presumably, third graders may be learning about the sexual proclivities of Allen Ginsburg.
Would the school governing boards really use Allen Ginsburg, cartooned into a children's book, as an educational tool? Yes, and why should he not? I do remember that Thomas Jefferson was lauded as a great man of virtue, intelligence, and patriotism, and yet, if we want to go down that road of infamy, he was the owner of hundreds of slaves, and had an affair with a mullatto slave of his...That was not "traditionally moral" if you ask me, and yet, we don't see books destroying his reputation or slathering mold over his patriotism, we just see the great accomplishments of his time, as children should see in Allen Ginsburg, or perhaps, Shakespeare (if anything). And yes, I believe that homosexuals have a long road to trudge through, and mistakes have been made, accusations have been flung, fingers pointed, and yet, they are victims of extreme prejudice in our country even if the media ignores this fact.
