Monday, July 14th, 2008
When the War On Homosexuals hurts innocent kids
From the local fishwrap:
Austin district cuts off support for ‘Rent’
Content prompts officials to halt financial backing, but high school production will go on.*
So basically, AISD summer school students get the honor of being the first high school students in Texas to obtain the rights to perform a famous, smash-hit Broadway musical, only to have that honor stolen and the funding slashed to nearly nothing because the musical’s themes don’t sit well with a bunch of howling fanatics.
What kind of theocratic authoritarian prick would pull this shit? Who the hell would be so threatened by the “humanizing of homosexuals” that they would resort to this sort of Mafia-style tactic?
Wonder if a certain Professional Outrage Maven threatened to behead members of the AISD school board if they continued to support this.
* Cf.
