I bet you thought June was "Gay Pride Month." Well, it is, as declared by President Barack Hussein Obama originally in 2009 and re-dedicated as such in 2010 and 2011. But June is hardly the only "gay month" and should be distinguished from "LGBT History Month," which was first celebrated in 1994.
June was chosen as Gay Pride Month since the homosexual ascendancy in the United States began in June, 1969 with the Stonewall riots. October was selected as LGBT History Month because "National Coming Out Day" falls on October 11th and the first gay march on Washington occurred in October, 1979.
Got all that? If not, try to keep up, okay!
Union High School special ed teacher Vicki Knox couldn't have forgotten the gay significance of October since school signs posters declaring this month "Lesbian Gay Bi Transgender History Month" reminded her every day.
Mrs. Knox, a devout Christian, made the mistake of foolishly exercising her First Amendment right of free speech regarding her views on the evils of homosexuality on a very public venue, Facebook, and was suspended by Union High and may lose her job because of alleged homophobia.
Knox's comments may not have provoked retaliation as much as the growing Facebook comment thread although she apparently did get more strident in expressing her unforgivable beliefs that, as she said, "Homosexuality is a perverted spirit that has existed from the beginning of creation. I do not pretend to know ALL things. Nor do I pretend not to have biases, failings and faults. But I know sin and it breeds like cancer!"
Apparently, too, in our perverse, diverse, politically-correct society, religiosity and free speech mean nil as contrasted with the rights of homosexuals everywhere to campaign for both acceptance and recruits.
There's no evidence dozens of students in the audience at Hartford Public High School in Connecticut gave much thought to religion or civil rights but they did react politically incorrectly when they stormed out of "Zanna, Don't!" a musical sponsored by Greater Hartford's Quest, an LGBT advocacy group ostensibly concerned about bullying in schools.
The Hartford Courant described the play as depicting "a reverse world in which straight people are outcasts and the most popular boy in school is the flamboyant star of the chess team . . . [and] the lowly football captain turns out to be a closet heterosexual."
The Courant reporter, Vanessa De La Torre, also characterized the liplock between two male characters that provoked the storm-out as "a peck on the lips." As pictures reveal, Ms. De La Torre doesn't seem to know the difference between politely pecking and passionately swapping spit.
In any event, the Hartford High football team did know the diference and expressed their repulsion over the exhibition by vacating the auditorium en masse after the vivid display of same-sex affection.
De La Torre didn't clarify her own sexual preferences and it's unclear whether she was actually in attendance at the time but she nevertheless described the reaction as "a piercing clamor . . . screams and loud voices and a bit of feigned or real disgust."
The only students she quoted in the article were those who disagreed with the protest.
She did, however, quote "nursing academy" Principal David Chambers who noted that his students woul be treating all kinds of people and should empathize with homosexuals. As he put it, "Our kids are not there yet."
Chambers observed, "Even though it's kind of chaotic, kind of wild and crazy, I see it as very successful. Our kids never deal with this, they keep it inside, and that's that nervous energy," and concluded without any proof, "That's why they walked out."
The law and government principal at Hartford High, Adam Johnson, conceded that many parents, not accorded the right to opt-out for their children, also objected to the play, empathy or not, "nervous energy" or not. He felt, "This is as important of a topic to discuss as anything in math, anything in social studies. I'm completely glad that we did it," even if parents disagreed and students were virtually forced-fed the spectacle.
Union High's Vicki Knox and those Hartford High parents and students have a great deal in common. They all recognize what their schools don't, that public educational institutions should be involved with education, not indoctrination and that schools should not be advocating what can generously be called alternative lifestyles, less-generously abberant behavior.(See all sources at /blog1/?p=5776.)
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