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solarbirdI was taking a break from the Cultural Warfare Updates, and I still am, really, but I have to surface for this.
Below is a link to photographs of pages from a children's book for fundamentalist kids. It teaches the "ex-gay" bullshit theology message and that homosexuality is caused by child molestation, and that gay people molest kids in order to reproduce. (The first and second are foreground messages. The third is background message.) It does this for third graders. Or that's my guess, anyway. I hope that this is fraudulent, but as it encapsulates the whole fundamentalist mindset on this perfectly, I'm assuming - for now, at least - that it's not.
Also, here are few other items that were sitting queued up anyway:
Anna Quindlen points to an interesting YouTube short: a cameraman going around asking anti-abortion-rights protesters about how much time a woman who gets an abortion should spend in jail;
Christian Broadcasting Network coverage of the Huckabee-Brownback fight; a Huckabee supporter sent mail to a bunch of "evangelicals" in Iowa telling them not to support Brownback because he's Catholic. Yay, sectarian politics;
"Hikes for boys, pedicures for girls"; Canadian town sets up a hiking camp, and then makes it boys-only. Girl who wanted to go hiking told to go to get a pedicure at a girl's glamour camp. Mmmmm, brutal sexism.
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The world's most disturbing children's book?
Jeremy Hertz
DormItem
15 August 2007
http://dormitem.com/blog/193
Browsing the internet leads you to find lots of funny and scary things. This is amongst the funniest and scariest. Long live the fine line between educational and downright creepy.
Here are some shots of the book.
[More at URL]
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How Much Jail Time?
By Anna Quindlen
Newsweek
6 August 2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20010696/site/newsweek/page/0/
Aug. 6, 2007 issue - Buried among prairie dogs and amateur animation shorts on YouTube is a curious little mini-documentary shot in front of an abortion clinic in Libertyville, Ill. The man behind the camera is asking demonstrators who want abortion criminalized what the penalty should be for a woman who has one nonetheless. You have rarely seen people look more gobsmacked. It's as though the guy has asked them to solve quadratic equations.
[...]
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Huckabee’s Campaign Tells Brownback to Show 'Christian Character'
August 2, 2007
CBN
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/206546.aspx
For Brody File loyalists, this is required reading. It's a little long but make sure you read all the way through. What you're about to experience is campaign ugliness. The mud is flying. Be careful. You may get dirty.
Mike Huckabee's campaign manager is absolutely blasting Sam Brownback and his "Christian character." Read more here about this argument, but basically this centers around the fact that a Huckabee supporter sent an e-mail to a bunch of Iowa Evangelicals asking them to reconsider supporting Brownback because he's Catholic. Huckabee issued a statement afterwards but the Brownback camp believed it didn't go far enough and wanted him to actually apologize.
[...]
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Hikes for boys; pedicures for girls -- A 9-year-old N.S. girl is not allowed to attend a boys-only camp. Her option? The Glamorous Girls program
The Globe and Mail
14 August 2007
Long URL elided>
Archived here, for the moment (scroll down):
http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2267536&st=28120
Text from that archive posting:
Call it The Girl's Guide to Not Hunting and Fishing.
A nine-year-old girl in Windsor, N.S., has been told she cannot attend a one-day camp where participants fish, hike and play golf, because it is for boys only.
The camp, run by the Municipality of the District of West Hants, north of Halifax, has a separate program for girls called the Glamorous Girls camp, which includes a trip to a spa for manicures and pedicures.
Families were notified about both camps in flyers sent home with school pupils ages 5 through 12 during the last week of school in June.
Lorna Houck said her two children, Lydia, 9, and Jonah, 7, both asked to attend the outdoor option to be held on Aug. 13.
"We realized it was for boys only," she said. "But we couldn't imagine they wouldn't give [Lydia] the thumbs up to come along."
But when her daughter phoned the recreation director, she was told the gender-segregated camp was a pilot program and that she could not attend the boys' event.
"They said other communities were doing it and stuff, and that they hadn't meant to be discriminatory," Lydia said yesterday. "I didn't think they were going to be so firm about it."
Richard Dauphinee, the municipal warden, said the camp was modelled on other gender-segregated programs run throughout the province.
"Each year we try and do something new and we survey the children and see what they would like," he said. "The girls wanted to make jewellery and have pedicures and manicures. That was their type of thing. The boys wanted to go fishing and play this par-three golf thing."
Mr. Dauphinee said he received only one complaint - from Lydia - and it was too late to change the program.
"The flyers were out and everything was done, and we would have gone to all the boys and say now there's a girl," he said.
Although he admits the boys most likely would not have objected, Mr. Dauphinee said the town had advertised the camp as for boys only, and decided to keep it that way.
"I have to go with the majority in my municipality. Out of 18,000 people, if 17,999 want something, I really can't cater to one person," he said. "This was by no means discrimination or anything."
But Ms. Houck and her daughter disagree.
After discussing the issue, the family decided that neither of the children would attend the camps, and that they would take a vacation together instead.
"It's really quite sad at this age to be stereotyped like that," Ms. Houck said. "We're teaching them there's boy things and girl things. In 2007, it's kind of hard to believe."
Her daughter is not into glamour, she said, and Ms. Houck does not believe gender segregation can be defended as beneficial in a purely recreational program.
"It's not an issue of male bonding when you have 5- to 12-year-olds," she said. "I could see how it might be different if they were teenagers."
To Lydia, who will start Grade 4 in September and enjoys playing with chickens on her family hobby farm, the idea of Glamorous Girls holds little appeal.
"It sort of sounds a bit ridiculous," she said. "Some girls do like it, but it's not really something that's that interesting. You have to stay inside all the time."
Mr. Dauphinee said the municipality will gauge the program's success before deciding whether gender-specific camps will be held in 2008.
"Next year, if girls do like to go fishing and they want to play the golf, there could be a mixture," he said. "There's a very good chance this might never happen again."
And while he sympathizes with Lydia's position, he said she is free to pursue her interests on her own.
"The place we're going fishing is five minutes from her house, so if there were that big a concern, her mother or her parents could have taken her," he said.
"I would have taken her myself but that wouldn't be the thing to do; I'd probably get accused of something."
Below is a link to photographs of pages from a children's book for fundamentalist kids. It teaches the "ex-gay" bullshit theology message and that homosexuality is caused by child molestation, and that gay people molest kids in order to reproduce. (The first and second are foreground messages. The third is background message.) It does this for third graders. Or that's my guess, anyway. I hope that this is fraudulent, but as it encapsulates the whole fundamentalist mindset on this perfectly, I'm assuming - for now, at least - that it's not.
Also, here are few other items that were sitting queued up anyway:
Anna Quindlen points to an interesting YouTube short: a cameraman going around asking anti-abortion-rights protesters about how much time a woman who gets an abortion should spend in jail;
Christian Broadcasting Network coverage of the Huckabee-Brownback fight; a Huckabee supporter sent mail to a bunch of "evangelicals" in Iowa telling them not to support Brownback because he's Catholic. Yay, sectarian politics;
"Hikes for boys, pedicures for girls"; Canadian town sets up a hiking camp, and then makes it boys-only. Girl who wanted to go hiking told to go to get a pedicure at a girl's glamour camp. Mmmmm, brutal sexism.
----- 0 -----
The world's most disturbing children's book?
Jeremy Hertz
DormItem
15 August 2007
http://dormitem.com/blog/193
Browsing the internet leads you to find lots of funny and scary things. This is amongst the funniest and scariest. Long live the fine line between educational and downright creepy.
Here are some shots of the book.
[More at URL]
----- 1 -----
How Much Jail Time?
By Anna Quindlen
Newsweek
6 August 2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20010696/site/newsweek/page/0/
Aug. 6, 2007 issue - Buried among prairie dogs and amateur animation shorts on YouTube is a curious little mini-documentary shot in front of an abortion clinic in Libertyville, Ill. The man behind the camera is asking demonstrators who want abortion criminalized what the penalty should be for a woman who has one nonetheless. You have rarely seen people look more gobsmacked. It's as though the guy has asked them to solve quadratic equations.
[...]
----- 2 -----
Huckabee’s Campaign Tells Brownback to Show 'Christian Character'
August 2, 2007
CBN
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/206546.aspx
For Brody File loyalists, this is required reading. It's a little long but make sure you read all the way through. What you're about to experience is campaign ugliness. The mud is flying. Be careful. You may get dirty.
Mike Huckabee's campaign manager is absolutely blasting Sam Brownback and his "Christian character." Read more here about this argument, but basically this centers around the fact that a Huckabee supporter sent an e-mail to a bunch of Iowa Evangelicals asking them to reconsider supporting Brownback because he's Catholic. Huckabee issued a statement afterwards but the Brownback camp believed it didn't go far enough and wanted him to actually apologize.
[...]
----- 3 -----
Hikes for boys; pedicures for girls -- A 9-year-old N.S. girl is not allowed to attend a boys-only camp. Her option? The Glamorous Girls program
The Globe and Mail
14 August 2007
Long URL elided>
Archived here, for the moment (scroll down):
http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2267536&st=28120
Text from that archive posting:
Call it The Girl's Guide to Not Hunting and Fishing.
A nine-year-old girl in Windsor, N.S., has been told she cannot attend a one-day camp where participants fish, hike and play golf, because it is for boys only.
The camp, run by the Municipality of the District of West Hants, north of Halifax, has a separate program for girls called the Glamorous Girls camp, which includes a trip to a spa for manicures and pedicures.
Families were notified about both camps in flyers sent home with school pupils ages 5 through 12 during the last week of school in June.
Lorna Houck said her two children, Lydia, 9, and Jonah, 7, both asked to attend the outdoor option to be held on Aug. 13.
"We realized it was for boys only," she said. "But we couldn't imagine they wouldn't give [Lydia] the thumbs up to come along."
But when her daughter phoned the recreation director, she was told the gender-segregated camp was a pilot program and that she could not attend the boys' event.
"They said other communities were doing it and stuff, and that they hadn't meant to be discriminatory," Lydia said yesterday. "I didn't think they were going to be so firm about it."
Richard Dauphinee, the municipal warden, said the camp was modelled on other gender-segregated programs run throughout the province.
"Each year we try and do something new and we survey the children and see what they would like," he said. "The girls wanted to make jewellery and have pedicures and manicures. That was their type of thing. The boys wanted to go fishing and play this par-three golf thing."
Mr. Dauphinee said he received only one complaint - from Lydia - and it was too late to change the program.
"The flyers were out and everything was done, and we would have gone to all the boys and say now there's a girl," he said.
Although he admits the boys most likely would not have objected, Mr. Dauphinee said the town had advertised the camp as for boys only, and decided to keep it that way.
"I have to go with the majority in my municipality. Out of 18,000 people, if 17,999 want something, I really can't cater to one person," he said. "This was by no means discrimination or anything."
But Ms. Houck and her daughter disagree.
After discussing the issue, the family decided that neither of the children would attend the camps, and that they would take a vacation together instead.
"It's really quite sad at this age to be stereotyped like that," Ms. Houck said. "We're teaching them there's boy things and girl things. In 2007, it's kind of hard to believe."
Her daughter is not into glamour, she said, and Ms. Houck does not believe gender segregation can be defended as beneficial in a purely recreational program.
"It's not an issue of male bonding when you have 5- to 12-year-olds," she said. "I could see how it might be different if they were teenagers."
To Lydia, who will start Grade 4 in September and enjoys playing with chickens on her family hobby farm, the idea of Glamorous Girls holds little appeal.
"It sort of sounds a bit ridiculous," she said. "Some girls do like it, but it's not really something that's that interesting. You have to stay inside all the time."
Mr. Dauphinee said the municipality will gauge the program's success before deciding whether gender-specific camps will be held in 2008.
"Next year, if girls do like to go fishing and they want to play the golf, there could be a mixture," he said. "There's a very good chance this might never happen again."
And while he sympathizes with Lydia's position, he said she is free to pursue her interests on her own.
"The place we're going fishing is five minutes from her house, so if there were that big a concern, her mother or her parents could have taken her," he said.
"I would have taken her myself but that wouldn't be the thing to do; I'd probably get accused of something."
