Neo-Con Kids May Get Study Hall Instead of Inauguration on the Teevee

Lisa Derrick Friday January 16, 2009 4:48 pm

Students in the Federal Way, Washington school district must have parental permission slips to watch the Inauguration because, according the school district–which also put a moratorium on An Inconvenient Truth while the board investigated whether a screening adhered to district policies:

The concern is that the televised inauguration was not listed in syllabus handed out at the beginning of the term. The district considers the inauguration a full length documentary, unlike some newspaper or internet reference articles which do not require pre-approval.

Let’s look up "documentary" in an "internet reference article" which won’t require me to leave mom’s basement (aka Rapunzel’s ivory tower) to get a signed permission slip:

A documentary is a creative work of non-fiction.

Federal Way school district, you flunk! A news broadcast, in real time doesn’t actually equal "documentary."

Meanwhile the arch wingnut-in-training, that wanna-be Pat Robertson, the faux Falwell himself, Dr. Gary Cass of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission has a warning for parents:

Obama’s inauguration may help move race relations forward in America, but Obama’s inaugural events are a major step backwards for historic Christian values. CADC must issue this WARNING message: Don’t let your children watch!…Obama is making a terrible mistake by polluting his inaugural events with sexual sin. Some one [sic] ought to remind him that he wasn’t elected mayor of Sodom.

Cass froths rabid on Bishop Robinson, Reverend Lowell and Rick Warren’s "compromise" and tells parents why kids shouldn’t be allowed to watch:

Flamboyant Homosexual Inaugural..Robinson will be appearing with the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington D. C. which forces all Christians around the world to compromise their character if they want to watch the inauguration. [ed: um, lots of Christians around the world actually don't have hate filled homophobic ideology, so it's not a big deal, srsly]…Barack Obama’s inauguration will have the dubious distinction of being the most perverted in our nation’s history…To ensure no one misses the perversion, the Inaugural parade will include a homosexual marching band with their rainbow flags flying proud with millions of our nation’s children and Christians watching.

Wanna give Cass a wedgie? That "homosexual marching band" the Lesbian and Gay Band Association needs some help with fund raising. Click the link and show wingnuts that America loves teh gays!

dakine01 | Friday January 16, 2009 05:19 pm 1

I can’t remember why but for JFK, I was out of school. I think maybe a snow day. But I don’t recall having to get a signed permission slip to watch “news as it happens” during the school day.

I also don’t recall anyone complaining that watching rockets go up hadn’t been part of the class syllabus. Sounds like these clowns are looking for excuses to show their idiocy. And the display is both frightening and disgusting. And very, very sad.

Twain | Friday January 16, 2009 05:35 pm 2

They are getting crazier by the day. I always think that they can’t say anything beyond what they already did and I’m wrong every time. They are just in a tizzy over this. Love it.

KayInMaine | Friday January 16, 2009 05:39 pm 3

Is it possible the wingers don’t want the kids watching the Inaugural because the kids might actually learn something? Seems plausible since the wingers don’t care too much for education to begin with.

Blub | Friday January 16, 2009 05:41 pm 4

can I have a geography lesson. Where is Federal Way, (WA I assume, not WDC)? What are its demographics? Can it be added to the Axis of Evil?

SnarKassandra | Friday January 16, 2009 05:42 pm 5

Damn! I know we’re watching the inauguration at school.

Synoia | Friday January 16, 2009 05:45 pm 6

Dear Dr. Gary Cass:

Judge not, lest you be judged. (Matthew 7:1.

Synoia | Friday January 16, 2009 05:46 pm 7

Or the long form, which is better:

Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment that you pronounce you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, “Let me take the speck out of your eye,” when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

Matthew 7.1-5

KayInMaine | Friday January 16, 2009 05:51 pm 8

I’d like to know how many right wing Evangelicals haven’t stopped masturbating at the thought of a gay band playing at Barack’s Inauguration?

colleen | Friday January 16, 2009 05:56 pm 9

Well I gave Cass a wedgie! Only 10 bucks but that’s all I can afford right now. I’m an atheist and most of the time I feel more “Christian” than these fuckheads.

KayInMaine | Friday January 16, 2009 06:01 pm 10

In response to colleen @ 9

Exactly. While they’re busy running around with a bible stuck to their faces trying to convince us that they’re more moral, we Atheists are living Jesus’ message without even giving credit to him! LOL *shaking head* If the wingers would just take a breath for a second and look at themselves outside the box, our world might be a safer and more pleasant place to live.

SouthernDragon | Friday January 16, 2009 06:07 pm 11

In response to Synoia @ 6

They don’t bother with that socialist New Testament stuff. Not when they can carve a career out of 1 line from the Old Testament. Two, if ya throw in abortion.

Mukei | Friday January 16, 2009 06:29 pm 12

… which forces all Christians around the world to compromise their character if they want to watch the inauguration.

I guarantee Dr. Gary Cass will be watching the inauguration. He won’t be able to take his eyes off it.

Back in the ’60s my parents sent me to our Lutheran church’s parochial school for grades 3-6. I still remember how much my 4th grade teacher loved coming into class every week to denounce the immorality of the previous evening’s Red Skelton show.

Even at that age it was clear to me how he knew and why he wanted to. This kind of mentality loves it’s own self-righteousness. Genuine righteousness, not so much (too much love required for that).

PJEvans | Friday January 16, 2009 06:36 pm 13

I heard from a fellow commuter that the principal at her school (a McCain voter) won’t ask for the school’s cable TVs to be fixed so the kids there can watch. Unfortunately, that school district is also looking for creative ways to fire people, so my fellow commuter can’t do anything about it.

Lisa Derrick | Friday January 16, 2009 07:08 pm 14

I think some kids might just get to take the day off school if they can’t watch there–which could cost districts money. And that band of homosexuals got some marching money from me too!

BooRadley | Friday January 16, 2009 08:17 pm 15

Thanks Lisa

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Lisa Derrick | Friday January 16, 2009 08:37 pm 16

In response to Blub @ 4

The City of Federal Way, Washington, is located between Seattle and Tacoma along the I-5 corridor, with Mt. Rainier to the east and Puget Sound to the west.

The school district says kids will be able to watch the swearing in without a permission slip, but

Due to the length of the ceremonies, we have asked parents to participate in the decision about whether their child should take time from normal classroom activities to view the entire Inauguration.

We believe our parents are our partners in their children’s education, and that parents have the right to know how instruction time is being used, which is why we publish syllabi and standards, and have an audio-visual policy in place.

Um, they knew at the start of the school year–in Sept–that there would be an Inauguration. one would have thought that they would have planned for this…

billthechowchow | Saturday January 17, 2009 05:04 am 17

Karma. In 1980, the elated newly converted Republicans who chartered the segregation academy (my term for private schools created throughout the South in response to integration during the late 60’s/early 70’s) that I attended forced all 600plus of us (K-12) into the gym to watch Reagan’s inauguration on several television sets, thus presumably indoctrinating us further. Unfortunately for many of them, their family fortunes came from farming and milling cotton, and soon thereafter, they lost their business to foreign competition and filed for bankruptcy.