Paging Winston Smith
Texas-Sized Brother has work for you.
On Wednesday, a board member charged that the proposed new books ran counter to a Texas law banning the recognition of gay civil unions because the texts used terms like "married partners" instead of "husband and wife."
After hearing the debate Thursday, one publisher agreed to include a definition of marriage as a "lifelong union between a husband and a wife." Another changed phrases such as "when two people marry" and "partners" to "when a man and a woman marry" and "husbands and wives."
They call them "asexual stealth phrases." You know, all part of the radical liberal homosexual agenda.
Supposedly the school board only has the authority to order corrections in the case of factual errors, but who needs silly rules when creative children could potentially think of homos. Not to mention the demonstrably false fact that marriage is a lifelong anything.
Don't worry, though, it's for the children. Think of the children!!
November 5th, 2004 at 9:46 pm
Now we have homophobic correctness? Wonderful.
November 7th, 2004 at 7:40 pm
I read the entire article that was linked in this post, and was amazed (though not surprised) at the final sentence…
“A controversy arose last year in Texas when the board approved new biology textbooks that contained Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, brushing aside opposition from religious groups.”
In this case, we’re lucky the opposition was disregarded, but Gary Wills recently wrote an interesting article concerning the power religious groups now have…
“The Day the Enlightenment Went Out”
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/04/opinion/04wills.html