Good lord, what is wrong with these people?

[baba]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/11/17/school.dress.ap/index.html

A woman in Texas complains about a traditional "cross dressing day" at the local schools, saying it "promotes homosexuality." In response, the schools change the day to "camo day" and kids will wear Army gear....

[Pacifist Patriot]

1. *sigh*

[Arkana]

2. By the same token

someone could say that "Camo Day" promotes violence. That woman is fucked up.

[R3dD0g]

3. Violence is far preferrable to sex in these minds. n/t

[izzie]

6. I think you will find the nut cases will now come out.

After all they feel they put Bush into Office, Hold on for a 4 year ride of the scary nuts taking over.

[Kerrytravelers]

7. If I lived there...

.. and had children in the school district, they'd be wearing shirts that read "Peace is Patriotic" and "War is Not Healthy for Children and Othre Living Things."

Take that fascists!

[hiley]

12. sounds

like something that would happen here in Arkansas
Crazy:hippie:

[progressoid]

4. sweet jesus

maybe they can have "dress up as your favorite bible character" next

[Politicub]

19. That would be fun

I would dress up like a whore and go around washing feet

[Gato Moteado]

22. the freepers would make their kids dress like roman soldiers....

so they could crucify someone.

[flygal]

5. I hate these people - and they seem to be winning their cases more

and more :grr:

[greyfox]

10. They will continue to win

over and over for 4 more miserable years and then... we have a chance again to eliminate them from office...if we live through the Shrub's war machine.

[jus_the_facts]

8. Everybody is fucked in the head........

.....and I mean EVERYFUCKIN'BODY...with NO EXCEPTIONS anymore. :eyes:

[Placebo]

9. OKAY. So "Military Day" = GOOD...

Boys wearing girls clothes and girls wearing boys clothes = EVIL.

...

I'm glad I've got that cleared up, now I can now move on with my life.

Onward Christian Soldiers!

[Gato Moteado]

11. while i don't think it would make hetero children turn gay.....

....i must admit that cross dressing day seems like a very strange custom for little kids. i'm not quite sure what to make of it. as a kid, i certainly would not have wanted to participate in something that silly.

i'm not going to take the opposite of the freeper's stance and say that cross dressing day is good and every day should be cross dressing day. on the other hand, the camo day is equally as dumb.

let kids dress like kids normally dress to go to school. there will be plenty of time in their adulthood if they want to dress like the opposite sex, or like GI Joe, or however they want to dress. let's concentrate on the education they're getting instead.

[baba]

17. It was a Sadie Hawkins sort of deal

The tradition was, the girls would dress like boys and the boys like girls, and then the girls would be the ones to ask the boys out, buy the sodas, etc. Stuff like this happens at schools all over the country, and has for decades.

[Gato Moteado]

21. really?

i had never heard about the part where they did the cross dressing. i only knew about the part where the girls asked the guys out.

the cross dressing part seems to be a strange twist. kids are already confused enough about sexuality as it is, no need to confuse or embarrass them more by encouraging them to dress as the opposite sex.

sorry, but it seems weird to me.

the camo day is just as bad. encouraging kids to dress as soldiers to glorify war is ridiculous.

[AlCzervik]

13. In my city the school board decided a tolerance day would be a good idea

yes i know....outrageous!!!! Anyway, i was glad to hear it and the kids were happy to participate. Who shows up at the high school the morning of? None other than the chapter president of the Eagle Forum. i couldn't believe it, well i could but i was pissed, I've had a go round with that bitch at a city council meeting. So much for tolerance. to his credit, the superintendent got them tossed off the campus, they were handing out fliers full of some really nasty stuff.

[ComerPerro]

14. I think, if that had happened at my school

I would go with the cross dressing anyway.

[Placebo]

16. You could always dress like a female soldier...

Take that middle America!

[Nag Champa]

15. Makes sense to me.

I once bought a unisex sweatshirt. The next day I turned gay.

Of course I am kidding, but why should we expect reason and rationality from people who demand secular governments in the Middle East, while being outraged by them here?

[okieinpain]

18. man, this is my 4th or 5th "get use to it" post. personally I love it

I believe they will over play their hand, and will be rudely surprised when they look behind them and see the rest of the country about to bust them upside the head with a shovel.

[dubyaD40web]

20. On the upside, these people are so easy and so much fun to offend...

...and watch them get their panties, er, I mean camo's in a bunch.
I like to take the exact opposite and equally (or more) extreme viewpoint of them, push it as far as I can, and just let it rip and watch their heads spin around.

Then when they start threatening to kill me or beat the shit out of me or some other evil thing, I just tell them "that's a very christian thing for you to say/do. your lord and savior must be proud of you."

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

23. Our public schools are so wimpy these days.

This woman appears to be a complete nobody, yet the school district will bend over backward to appease her wishes. This doesn't make any sense, yet I see this happening a lot. Many schools are so poor and afraid of getting sued that they'll immediately back down and give in to any demands a parent may have. You used to have to be some one mighty important in the community to have this kind of ultimate power over the school administrators. Now any Joe Dirt type character can make a small fuss, and they'll get their way, regardless of whether or not their complaints are justified.

This is one of the reasons why kids in a lot of schools are getting higher grades than they deserve.

[gollygee]

24. Oh my god

AAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH

[RevolutionaryActs]

31. I second that

:nuke:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

25. After reading the article this one part stood out the most to me

"It's like experimenting with drugs," Davies said. "You just keep playing with it and it becomes customary. ... If it's OK to dress like a girl today, then why is it not OK in the future?"

That argument goes to show how clueless they really are.

[baba]

28. Also note that

Per usual, she takes greater issue with boys dressing like girls than the other way around!

[ironflange]

26. "Liberty Legal Institute"

That's a hot one!

[mr blur]

27. Well...

"If it's OK to dress like a girl today, then why is it not OK in the future?"

well, why isn't it?

[JohnKleeb]

29. cross dressing day sounds so much better

than camo day.

[Gato Moteado]

30. they both sound bizarre to me.......

schools should be concentrating on educating these kids rather than having them cross dress or dress like GI Joe.

[ZenLefty]

32. Why can't they do both?

There is some really fashionable camouflage these days.