Group: Literature Assigned In School 'Child Abuse'

Of course, they'll be defenses, but this one's clearly over the top...

This is a fun one...

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It's crap like this that makes me want to say "F#$@ing Berkely".
(Just my stereo-typing reaction to that type of stuff...)

Some people can't seem to wrap their heads around an ideal that "provocative" is not a never-ending justification unto itself.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph and all the saints preserve us.
What is going to happen to our children's children? There is no more taboo.
Open the out-house and let's all drown in our own filth!
I think the people who suggested this as literature for teens in public school should be prosecuted. Wrong is wrong.

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You know -- there is always somebody pushing the envelope, isn't there? They do it to make some sort of point, and they inch things a little further in one direction and they push and they push until they hardly recognize why they are pushing any more.

The problem with such pushing of the envelope is that eventually there will be a push back, and that particular push can be swift and dangerous. One of the engines that fueled the Nazi rise to power was their ability to appeal to people's sense of sexual morality, as they decried the "decadent art" so prevelent during the Weimar era, and so the pendulum can shift back with such ferocity that those who constantly pushed the envelope in the first place end up far worse off then they could possibly imagine.

I think the folks who pushed to have this porn included in the required reading probably think they are being very hip and very much in the vanguard for such things, but when it gets down to it, I wonder if they have any actual reason for doing so OTHER than to push the envelope? If they would stop to think for a second, they might realize that they are just inviting a reaction and I think it irresponsible to not consider the nature of such reaction.

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If a certain course of action makes the mouth-breathers furious, then that’s a good policy. – The Practical Environmentalist

What's to defend? As a parent, I don't think that book is appropriate for children in high school or lower grades...College sure. But not below college level.

And it isn't that the material is 'gay' in content...I'd find it unsuitable if it was explicite/vulgar hetrosexual content as well.

I don't have a problem with school children learning sex ed or social education...But what I've read on the little bit of that play is straight out porn, not sex ed or even social education.

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Jesus Was A Liberal

If a certain course of action makes the mouth-breathers furious, then that’s a good policy. – The Practical Environmentalist

I don't have a clue what they were thinking, but they need a good knock upside the head. That's for sure.

Our children should be learning to not only appreciate their bodies, but to respect thier bodies and the bodies of others. And that's not what a child would learn from that play. They'd only learn the 'gritty, down and dirty' physical aspect of sex. Not the emotional portion, let alone 'spiritual' aspect of what a good loving relationship between consenting adults is...Hetrosexual or homosexual bonding that affects couples in sexual relationships.

If anything, that play would do more harm then good, on young impressionable minds. Not only on a sexual level, but on a social level as well because that's all a young mind would see those of that orientation doing. Not the actual emotional and caring bonds that are created in normal relationships of homosexuals...

In otherwords, it makes homosexuality look 'nasty'...When it's anything but that, because the norm of homosexual relationships aren't represented in that particular story, but the abnormal relationships. A more mature mind can grasp that (unless you're talking a homophobe), but a less mature mind wouldn't see beyond that 'graphic, dirty' impression the play gives.

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