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Roland99

(53,342 posts)
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 10:33 PM Jan 2019

100 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-vgtrn

Karen 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 Bundo—only in their tome, old Bundo winds up getting married to another boy bunny.

On Thursday, the Trevor Project—a nonprofit dedicated to suicide prevention among LGBTQ youth, which split the proceeds from Oliver's book with an AIDS nonprofit—announced that it had shipped 100 copies of the thing to Immanuel Christian School, where Pence teaches, along with a note encouraging the K–8 program to "include [it] in your school’s library or classrooms."

"Policies and rhetoric that exclude or reject LGBTQ youth can lead to increased risk for suicide and depression, and it’s our organization’s mission to end suicide among LGBTQ young people," the letter reads. "With your help, we hope you will change your school’s 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 OP
So, what are they going to do with them? customerserviceguy Jan 2019 #1
burn, likely Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2019 #2
And you know they're all surfing porn in their homes Roland99 Jan 2019 #3

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,379 posts)
2. burn, likely
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 10:49 PM
Jan 2019

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.

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