In February, the Traditional Values Coalition purchased the website ENDAHurtsKids.com. A month later, it launched. And it is a thing of beauty.
“Currently, 36 states do not make ‘gender identity’ into a protected minority under law,” reads the site, run by TVC executive director Andrea Lafferty. “But once Obama signs ENDA, this will change. Every state will be forced to make cross-dressers, drag queens, transsexuals, and she-males into protected classes. These states will be forbidden by law to reassign any cross-dressing teacher because this would be considered ‘discrimination.’ Thus, children will be trapped in classes taught by men who dress as women and students will be indoctrinated that it’s normal behavior.”
The site is obviously an attack on ENDA, but also Chai Feldblum, whose appointment to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is being stalled in the Senate, who was a lead author on the legislation.
But whatever let’s a webmaster use stock photography of cute school children next to harrowing threats of doom is fine by us.s
stevenelliot
No I dont want men dressed as women teaching my kids. I also dont want illegal aliens from the planet Zandar posing as humans teaching my kids.
The chances of either happening are about the same. Who believes this rhetoric?? gosh there are some ignorant ass people in this country.
jeffree
No kids here yet, maybe someday !! but I just want my kids to have GOOD teachers. That means the teacher knows how to teach!! Of all the problems in schools with violence, bullys, dropouts, guns drugs & bad teachers keeping their job, the focus needs to be on teaching, not if the teacher is transgender or gay or is lefthanded or fat or biracial or is in a wheel chair!!
i can get fired if my boss thinks gays are bad. I might not get a job i’m qualified 4 because the boss hates gays. That stuff happens all over the place! We need protection. Really how can someone in their right mind oppose equality in employment?
Oh-So-Very
I would’ve loved a trans teacher or a drag queen teacher. Stupid bigoted fucks.
jeffree
Check out their website!! There’s no way to comment or express a opposing view point! Only an option to tell Congress you dont want polyamorous transgender homogays teaching your kids!!
oh I love me some democracy!!!
Oh-So-Very
Yes a ridiculous site.
On an unrelated note, I absolutely love Chai Feldblum!
Jon
It may seem like another lifetime, but I rememnber when a Woman not wearing a skirt was forbidden and seen as a sign of social breakdown. Girls wearing pants to school wasn’t even a notion. . .Women had to wear hats to church & it was an “abomination to the lord” to get a haircut.
My favorite teacher was fired & escorted out of my elementary school for wearing slacks to work.
What really is “crossdressing” in our society today?
I seriously doubt that drag performers are going to suddenly inudate our schools & demand bathroom privlege at school with my grandchildren. . .but then. . on second thought, I think a trans person would would be more likely to just beat the crap out of some predator asshole.
Devon
“Obama signs ENDA”
Ha. Ha ha. Haaahaahahahahahahaha.
Nightstalker
I would personally love it if my kid was being taught by a sassy drag performer, or a well-spoken transsexual. My own high school years were defined by overworked, burned-out teachers who droned on and didn’t like children. At least a drag queen teacher would fire up the students’ imagination, for better or worse…A transsexual teacher would definitely hold the kids attention, without a doubt. These teachers would be passionate, feeling like they always had something to prove. That’s what a good teacher needs to feel like everyday in order to inspire their students. I hope by the time my son enters into his teens (he’s only five right now) that he’ll have some teachers who blur gender lines.
On another note, those photoshopped storm clouds in the windows? I’m not buying it.
The Bony Man
Is it strange that I would have no problem with a drag queen teaching my kids? Clothing is all just a social construct anyway, why should it matter what the teacher wears? This is my main problem with these kinds of issues. I honestly cannot wrap my head around the hatred these people have. I can think of no reasons why they should be worried about this, so it becomes hard for me to rationally argue against them. I’m to busy going “what? Why? Is this really a problem?”.
roflmfao
Not only are clothing styles a social construct, gender is too. If we weren’t told from childhood that people only come in two distinct styles, but in a wide variety, no one would think twice about someones gender or clothing. As long it was was neat, clean and work appropriate. I am so confused with the whole “traditional family values” fear of anything even remotely smelling of lgbt. What difference does it make to them, I mean really? Why does every single thing in this messed up country of ours has to adhere to some religious view? We are supposed to be equal, as in we all have the same rights. No cherry picking allowed. Either we all have rights, or none of us do.
JT
There is one group of men who wear dresses I would not want teaching my (purely hypothetical) kids: Catholic clergy. Otherwise, give me someone who is dressed professionally who does their job and I’ll be perfectly happy.
Jon
@roflmfao: exactly. . .thanks.
Wade MacMorrighan
“Men dressing as women”? What about women dressing like men?! Shouldn’t you be spending your time putting them in their place? You know, keeping them barefoot and pregnant! I must admit that you make it sound like we’d be dealing with cross-dressers or drag performers (it’s sure as hell implied!), but what it actually at heart, here, is “gender identity” in the case of trans-gendered individuals! Instead, you seem to be confusing that for transvestites! WTF dude?!
Wade MacMorrighan
@The Bony Man: Dude, I would LOVE to see a sassy spit-fire of a flawless drag queen as a public school teacher! HA! THAT WOULD BE AWESOME! So, no, it isn’t weird to think so…
Z.L.
[img]http://i990.photobucket.com/albums/af29/Zeelee1770/ENDA_birdspoof.jpg[/img]
I couldn’t resist.