Observations and inanities by a second-shift assistant supervisor in the Puppy-Grinding division of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy® (our motto: "Sure it's cruel, but think of the jobs!"), your host, Brent Rasmussen.
More religious antics.
Recently, the Flint Hills (Manhattan, Kansas) Chapter of PFLAG (Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) produced "You Belong to Us" a non-fiction play based on interviews of parents with lesbian and gay children. It’s a story about acceptance, overcoming prejudice, and most of all, unconditional love. Over 500 people attended the play in early March.
As an ally of the LGBT community, I chose to audition for the play along with my wife and 16-year-old son. Turns out, we were all cast, including my other 9-year-old son. From set and costume designers and marketing specialists to actors and audience members, it took a diverse group of people from across the community to make it a success. We built a collective “stage” to share a message of love and acceptance
A colleague of our writer and director attended the play and afterward asked about using the pieces of the set for a production she was directing at the Flint Hills Christian School. That play, "I Never Saw another Butterfly" is about Jewish children in Nazi Germany.
“Over 15,000 Jewish children passed through Terezin, and only about a hundred were still alive when Terezin was liberated at the end of the war. These few then went back to the scattered pieces of their lives, their homes and families. Raja lived through it all at Terezin, teaching the children when there was nothing to teach with, helping to give them hope when there was little reason for hope.”
Excerpt from program description
PFLAG readily agreed to let them use the set, but asked to be mentioned in the program. The sets were moved to the Christian School and the production of “I Never Saw a Butterfly” is set to open tonight.
This morning, the director of the School play called the president of Flint Hills PFLAG in tears and in disbelief to say that the principal of the Christian School would not allow PFLAG to be acknowledged or mentioned in the program. PFLAG insisted that their assistance be acknowledged. That’s when the principal offered to pay PFLAG for the sets in lieu of an acknowledgement in the program.
Of course, that was turned down and now the Flint Hills Christian School is tearing down our sets and building new ones so they don't have to be affiliated with lesbian and gay people. On the day their show is supposed to open.
I’m at a loss for words.
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Simply amazing.
The fact that the Flint Hills Christian School was putting on a production about what happens when you indulge intolerance, and were yet able to be so bloody damned intolerant themselves, is simply amazing.
But it is also all too common. I think there's even a Biblical passage that pertains to the situation, something about a mote in one's eye...
Jim Downey
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Recently there was a big complaining session over in this neck of the woods. The cause: A video promoting tolerance of children with "different" families that was shown in a local elementary school. The video in question showed several families, including mixed race, single parents, children living with grandparents, and gay and lesbian parents.
Naturally the Gay and Lesbian parents caused a flap, parents were angry that their children were forced to see homosexual relationships as if they were morally acceptable. The school, for its part, had sent around opt out slips for all movies shown in class at the beginning of the year that almost no one signed. The sad thing is, because of the controversy, the other schools that were planning to show it canceled.