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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums100 Copies of John Oliver's Gay Kids' Book Got Sent to Karen Pence's School
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/yw8m3m/karen-pence-school-sent-gay-kids-book-john-oliver-trevor-project-immanuel-christian-school-vgtrnKaren Pence just took a job as an art teacher at a private school in Virginia with a strict, deeply fucked ban against LGBTQ students and faculty. The Second Lady had worked there for 12 years before taking a bit of a sabbatical, but now that she's back, an LGBTQ nonprofit is sending her a kind of welcome-home gift: A bunch of copies of John Oliver's children's book about a gay bunny.
Not just any bunny, mind you; her family's bunny, Marlon Bundo, whose presumably tortured existence as Mike Pence's pet was chronicled in a kids' book written by the couple's daughter and illustrated by Second Lady Pence herself. Right around the time it came out, the folks at Last Week Tonight put together their own version, A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundoonly in their tome, old Bundo winds up getting married to another boy bunny.
On Thursday, the Trevor Projecta nonprofit dedicated to suicide prevention among LGBTQ youth, which split the proceeds from Oliver's book with an AIDS nonprofitannounced that it had shipped 100 copies of the thing to Immanuel Christian School, where Pence teaches, along with a note encouraging the K8 program to "include [it] in your schools library or classrooms."
"Policies and rhetoric that exclude or reject LGBTQ youth can lead to increased risk for suicide and depression, and its our organizations mission to end suicide among LGBTQ young people," the letter reads. "With your help, we hope you will change your schools student and employee policies to accept LGBTQ students and employees."
Not just any bunny, mind you; her family's bunny, Marlon Bundo, whose presumably tortured existence as Mike Pence's pet was chronicled in a kids' book written by the couple's daughter and illustrated by Second Lady Pence herself. Right around the time it came out, the folks at Last Week Tonight put together their own version, A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundoonly in their tome, old Bundo winds up getting married to another boy bunny.
On Thursday, the Trevor Projecta nonprofit dedicated to suicide prevention among LGBTQ youth, which split the proceeds from Oliver's book with an AIDS nonprofitannounced that it had shipped 100 copies of the thing to Immanuel Christian School, where Pence teaches, along with a note encouraging the K8 program to "include [it] in your schools library or classrooms."
"Policies and rhetoric that exclude or reject LGBTQ youth can lead to increased risk for suicide and depression, and its our organizations mission to end suicide among LGBTQ young people," the letter reads. "With your help, we hope you will change your schools student and employee policies to accept LGBTQ students and employees."
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100 Copies of John Oliver's Gay Kids' Book Got Sent to Karen Pence's School (Original Post)
Roland99
Jan 2019
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customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)1. So, what are they going to do with them?
Send them back, or burn them?
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,379 posts)2. burn, likely
Shouldn't have announced until after they arrived. Let the school have a big pearl clutching and fainting day, and then announce where the books came from when the bonfire is sighted.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)3. And you know they're all surfing porn in their homes
Damned hypocrites