{"id":2961,"date":"2011-12-01T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/12\/abc-hearts-bullies.html"},"modified":"2011-12-01T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T18:48:00","slug":"abc-hearts-bullies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/12\/abc-hearts-bullies.html","title":{"rendered":"ABC hearts bullies"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Gay Rights <span style=\"background-color: white\">advocates\u00a0rejoice with<\/span> pride as an eighth grader turns in<a href=\"http:\/\/gma.yahoo.com\/blogs\/abc-blogs\/don-t-gay-eighth-grader-psa-goes-viral-183359893.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> this little class project.<\/a>\u00a0 Looks like his school challenged kids to develop a public service announcement admonishing children to stop <strike>with the freedom of speech<\/strike> using the phrase \u2018that\u2019s so g-y.\u2019\u00a0 The eighth grade hero of the story responded by making a PSA in which he \u2013 horrors \u2013 uses the \u2018G\u2019 word.\u00a0 Well yeah, he actually uses the name God as an expletive, but that just might offend religious people and nobody cares.<\/p>\n<p>No, he uses <em>that<\/em> word.\u00a0 In a derogatory way.\u00a0 And so his younger brother rushes up to him and BAM!\u00a0 smacks him in the face and chastises him for using the phrase \u2018That\u2019s so g-y.\u2019\u00a0 He even hits him in the face again to make sure it sticks.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>I know, I know.\u00a0 It\u2019s just a silly skit by a kid trying to please his school.\u00a0 And yet think about it.\u00a0 Had the boy said he was gay, and had his brother rushed up and smacked him and said, \u201cDon\u2019t be gay!\u00a0 It\u2019s a dangerous lifestyle and is against the traditional understanding of human sexuality!\u2019, can you imagine what the response would be?\u00a0 Why, CNN would devote the next month to asking where we all went so wrong.\u00a0 ABC certainly wouldn\u2019t be cheering.\u00a0 They would be linking violence, spanking, bullying, homophobia, you name it.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s to promote the dogmas of the Left.\u00a0 It\u2019s to adhere to the teachings of Gay Rights.\u00a0 It\u2019s all about pushing that agenda, brainwashing the kiddies, and making sure people know that it\u2019s time for all you nonconformists out there to kiss your free speech goodbye.\u00a0 Show a clip with a kid smacking another kid for any reason at all, and it will be condemned.\u00a0 Glorifying bullying and violence huh?\u00a0 Typical for you homophobic bigot types! Unless, of course, it is to promote the most important issue in the world. <\/p>\n<p>Did I mention we have been thinking seriously about homeschooling?\u00a0 Though there is a bright spot.\u00a0 It looks like most readers who have commented are a bit shy about getting rid of all this freedom of speech garbage.\u00a0 Maybe there\u2019s still some good old horse sense left in Americans after all.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gay Rights advocates\u00a0rejoice with pride as an eighth grader turns in this little class project.\u00a0 Looks like his school challenged kids to develop a public service announcement admonishing children to stop with the freedom of speech using the phrase \u2018that\u2019s so g-y.\u2019\u00a0 The eighth grade hero of the story responded by making a PSA in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ABC hearts bullies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gay Rights advocates&nbsp;rejoice with pride as an eighth grader turns in this little class project.&nbsp; 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