That sound you hear…
…is Keitha, Colley and Annabel all smacking their foreheads at the same time.
(Note for our new readers: Keitha, Colley & Annabel are characters I created for a play of mine. Keitha & Annabel are a lesbian couple, Colley is Keitha’s straight male best friend. They tend to pop up from time to time.)
But anyway, some schools are trying a thing called “No Name-Calling Week,” which is pretty self-explainatory. Except, apparently, to some conservatives who’ve decided it is, yes you guessed it, the latest plot to advance The Homosexual Agenda.
Excerpts from the article linked above follow, with commentary.
“I hope schools will realize it’s less an exercise in tolerance than a platform for liberal groups to promote their pan-sexual agenda,” said Robert Knight, director of Concerned Women for America’s Culture and Family Institute.
Annabel: Pan-sexual agenda? What the hell does that mean?
Colley: I think it means you’re only attracted to flying women in nightgowns named Wendy.
Keitha: Who isn’t?
Annabel: The nightgowns are named Wendy?
Keitha: Oh, shush. Actually, I think it means you’re attracted to bearded men who play pipes and have goats legs.
Colley: Who isn’t?
Annabel & Keitha turn and look at Colley.
Keitha: Okay, buddy, you’ve been hanging out with us for way too long!
One of GLSEN’s most persistent critics is Warren Throckmorton, director of counseling at Grove City College, a Christian school outside Pittsburgh. His skeptical comments about “No Name-Calling Week” have been widely circulated this month on conservative Web sites.
Keitha: Oh please. It’s obvious he’s just lashing out because his parents named him Warren Throckmorton.
“But it will definitely make traditionally oriented teachers and parents and kids feel very uncomfortable, if they happen to object to homosexuality on moral grounds,” he said of GLSEN’s program. “If you disagree, you’re hateful, you’re bigoted, you’re a homophobe….
Colley: Admitting it is the first step towards getting help.
Annabel: I’m so proud he’s made this move.
Colley: It’s a real breakthrough.
Keitha: You guys are so weird.
Annabel: Yeah, but you love us.
Keitha: I love him. You I’m not so sure about.
Annabel: Right.
They kiss.
