The Gadfly will be off the grid for the next four or five days as he spends some leisure time resting his weary soul after wrestling with the challenges of his business startup. And boy does The Gadfly need this time away from it all.
But before he goes, The Gadfly would like to share this sad spectacle of a story with you dear readers:
The family of Sunnie Kahle, an 8-year-old from Timberlake, Virginia, recently received a letter from her school, Timberlake Christian School (TCS), in which the principal informed them that, “TCS is not the best place for [Sunnie’s] future education,” because her dress and behavior were not feminine enough.
As reported by WSET 13 News, the letter emphasized that Sunnie, who sports jeans, sneakers and a short hair cut, could be denied continued enrollment in the school. According to the TCS guidelines, enrollment at the bible-based institution could be refused to students who live in, condone, or support “sexual immorality; practicing homosexual lifestyle or alternative gender identity; promoting such practices; or otherwise having the inability to support the moral principles of the school.” The letter cited Bible verses, which they say are the basis of TCS’s principles.http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/oddnews/christian-school-principal-says-8-year-old-girl-not-welcome-because-she-dresses-and-behaves-like-a-boy-204748527.html
Sigh . . . . . . . .
The Gadfly, over the years dear readers, has cited numerous reasons (in the thousands, if not tens of thousands) as to why he purposely chose a life of religious non-belief over that of scriptural faith. This story simply adds to that stack of reasons.
First and foremost, does anyone else besides The Gadfly get the creepy-crawlies running across your skin upon learning that these school officials seem to be obsessed with the "feminine" qualities of an 8-year old girl? The Gadfly isn't implying anything, but if it were up to him, somebody would be keeping a close eye on the "adults" running that place.
So here we have this 8-year old girl who gets happiness out of wearing jeans, sneakers and short hair, and as such is such a horrifying threat to the Taliban-like leaders of this school, that she is formally expelled for the most trivially moronic of reasons - namely her love of jeans, sneakers and short hair. Believe it or not though - that isn't even the worst of it.
The expulsion letter sent to the kid and her family insinuates that this cute, innocent, 8-year old child, by virtue of her moral crime of just being a normal, happy kid who likes wearing blue jeans and sneakers and keeping her hair short, is condoning or supporting "sexual immorality." Not only that - but that this little girl is practicing a "homosexual lifestyle or alternative gender identity" and promoting it with her blue jeans, tennis shoes and short hair.
The Gadfly is not even going to comment further on these administrative "leaders" at this "school" dear readers. If you have read this far, and yet still are incapable of comprehending the utter wrongness and stupidity and ignorance and hatefulness that these people are teaching the children under their purvey with their actions, then no amount of editorializing by The Gadfly can help you -- and you really should just get up, make a bee-line to the nearest rest room, dunk your head in the toilet, and pull the flush handle repeatedly.
The larger point that The Gadfly would like to make here is that these are the people who are earnestly attempting to forcefully hijack the political infrastructure of this country. They are the people who are the driving force behind right wing conservative politics and politicians, and they also are the people who comprise a clear majority of the Tea Party caucus. The mindset prevalent among the "adults" at the school 8-year old Sunnie Kahle was expelled from is the kind which permeates the medieval society that they aspire to erecting and employing to govern ALL of America and it's citizens, and it should scare the fucking bejeebers out of you dear readers knowing that they are "teaching" armies of impressionable kids to be just as hateful, ignorant, intolerant and stupid as the adults in their lives are.
They are, not to put too light of an emphasis on it, bug-fuck, batshit insane. They are apocalyptic dead-enders who's vision of a future America ends with the nation being a smoking ruin from world-wide nuclear destruction, which they fervently believe will usher in the rapturous reunion with the depraved and twisted manifestation of their baby Jeebus -- the vindictive, tyrannical Jeebus which has been created in the dark, soulless confines of their own fevered, fundamentalist delusions.
And people had better start wising up to the long-term agenda of these lunatics - for to ignore them is to do so at the peril of yours and your children's future democracy and freedom -- and possibly even -- existence.
----TFG
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