National 'No Name-Calling' Week Irks Conservatives

National 'No Name-Calling' Week Irks Conservatives
Despite Gripes About Gay Themes, Observance Spreads Nationally

POSTED: 10:25 pm EST January 23, 2005
UPDATED: 10:33 pm EST January 23, 2005

NEW YORK -- Using a young readers' novel called "The Misfits" as its centerpiece, middle schools nationwide will participate in a "No Name-Calling Week" initiative starting Monday. The program, now in its second year, has the backing of groups from the Girl Scouts to Amnesty International but has also drawn complaints that it overemphasizes harassment of gay youths.

The initiative was developed by the New York-based Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, which seeks to ensure that schools safely accommodate students of all sexual orientations. GLSEN worked with James Howe, the openly gay author of "The Misfits" and many other popular children's books.

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"No Name-calling Week" takes aim at insults of all kinds - whether based on a child's appearance, background or behavior. But a handful of conservative critics have zeroed in on the references to harassment based on sexual orientation.

"I hope schools will realize it's less an exercise in tolerance than a platform for liberal groups to promote their pan-sexual agenda," said Robert Knight, director of Concerned Women for America's Culture and Family Institute.

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http://www.thekcrachannel.com/news/4122133/detail.html

:D

:bounce:

So what's a difference in a pot and a pan? Is it merely the handle?

Get a handle on a pot and you have a pan??? In that case, I could have pan sex then!

Then you have all the ingredients of "pan" sex

that a pan is shallow and a pot is deep. (I would suspect the dividing line would be about a 1:1 aspect ratio of height / width.)

But I wouldn't recommend sex with either.

Redstone

I've had some sex in my day that I suppose I could "pan."

Is the "pan" part a noun, adjective, or verb?

or is it prawns?

:)

NT

A variation on an old "Red Dwarf" joke.

...use teflon (protection)

as long as there are no slivers involved.

getting burned.

Ba DUM bum.

Thank you. Tip your waitresses.

coined by Bill Murray in Stripes

And lack thereof.

would think that getting kids to stop calling each other names for a week is a bad thing. :eyes:

as witness the last campaign. a hiatus on namecalling is one less week to train the young'uns, you know.... the Junior SwiftBoatLiars.

"Only Repugs would think that getting kids to stop calling each other names for a week is a bad thing."

We have a winner!!
:toast:

:eyes:

They run the government and the media, but they have to have SOMETHING to b*tch about. :wtf:

.....ummmm,.......

...a select, few OTHER conservatives, maybe?....

Other than that, I don't believe I can think of one goddamn thing.

It's a good, old fashioned show where women vacuumed in heels and boys held hands with girls (but never with that spongebob homo guy).

must make them mentally unstable...

that makes them live in such fear?
On edit: which came first - the chicken or the egg?

bottomline: mentally unstable :)

ROFL

Maybe it means the god Pan...

Oy! That leaves too many openings...

if memory serves me, pan was one of the demigods of woodland but also a servant of dionysus?

and thus, pan would approve of sex.

:D

we need more toasters!

:D

Bubba's not gonna be able to relate to that one.

:D

How sad. I guess that any program to promote tolerance will have to boldly state that intolerance and abuse of gays is okey-dokey.

"Schools should be steering kids away from identifying as gay," Knight said. "You can teach civility to kids and tell them every child is valued without conveying the message that failure to accept homosexuality as normal is a sign of bigotry."

she almost was correct. I guess it's cool for her to have thousands of kids calling people hateful names like "fag" and not understanding how that is not a good thing.

Of course, this will get swept up with the "evils of being P.C." by the ditto heads, just you wait. They don't like it when someone doesn't let them call a spade a spade, so to speak and cannot comprehend how it could bother someone.

without someone getting really offended.

After all, they think they should be able to kick people in the face and not get kicked back

"Failure to accept homosexuality as normal", as this freak puts it, *is* a sign of bigotry.

on edit: and by "this freak", I mean the Concerned Women for America mouthpiece person, not unpossibles, of course.

faggot at a kid in the hallway as hate speech is pretty fucking subhuman.

Kids don't care who thinks that being gay is immoral - kids just are what they are. When an authority figure tells a kid that their very existence is immoral and "disapproves" of what they are, that kid gets a very different message about their identity and their self-worth. If your kid was told everyday by everybody he or she knows that they were a defective immoral human being because they had green eyes it couldn't be more absurd. And when parents lead the charge to make it okay for their own kids to torment gay kids, it's bordering on criminal.

How could anyone be so cruel to a child, especially about sexual identity, and claim to be "moral"!

Am I the only one who thinks it odd that a conservative group called "Concerned Women for America's Culture and Family Institute" has a male director? Must be some of that enlightened conservatism.. "We are concerned, but we can't have any wimmens running things.. "

Maybe the women who would belong to this particular group would not feel comfortable with a woman as leader - gynophobia, especially among women, is a pitiful thing...

these guys are afraid of EVERYTHING.

I'm reminded of the movie "Defending your life", in which Rip Torn, acting as Albert Brooks' "lawyer" points out that humans spend much of their lives groping through a fog of fear. Only those who reach beyond it get to move on in the spiritual plane.
If so, I think conservatives will be forced to repeat this plane until their ears bleed.

at home shackled to a stove, eight months pregnant with a kid on both hips?

Not always. They can put the kid down if they need to do some darning or mending :P

Why don't they just form the mother of all hate groups, and call it the Concerned Men and Subservient Women Against Non-Procreative Sex for American Culture, Family, and Apple Pie Institute?

Seriously.

Otherwise you have it dead to rights.

And I'm a Christian who actually knows Jesus' teachings. I never thought I'd say this, but that poor man; it must be hard knowing the evil that is done in his name...

Thinking he is actually a woman. That's why "he" represents them!

Is what I call them. I've been keeping an eye on CWFA for years and out of the fundie groups they are a real piece of work. Before AAR came out I used to listen to their radio show to see what they were up too, and they were totally obsessed with porn and gays. (gay porn?)

I mean to the point where they had a woman whose sole job it was to watch porn all day and "get outraged". My friends and I used to joke around, one day we'd all dress up like fundies and apply for the porn watching job. :P

you read penny arcade? they did a joke on that a while ago. linky

Tell me, who has the warped mind here?

Let's have a "BE NICE TO CONSERVATIVES" week. Using their warped thinking, their heads will explode in the celebration of their pan-sexualness (I just knew they had it in them.)

A National "Be Nice to Conservatives Week"...don't know if I could make for a full week....would you settle for just one day?????? :evilgrin:

Perhaps some anthropologist can highlight the life of the American conservative as seen in the wild!

A whole week? You've got to be kidding!!!!

Perhaps they feel compelled to look for it everywhere else because they don't get much of it at home.

They thrive on imagined insult. It'd be like "Mars Attacks!"

Pan-sexual? You some kinda liberal poof, Mr Knight?

Speak the truth plainly, like a Real American. Bellowing HOMO and FAGGOT builds character, strengthens bones, keeps the knee-jerk muscles from going slack. Don't make us send Fred Phelps over to set you straight. You wimp.

would piss 'em off.

The show would be 5 minutes long

LOL

They take something that's pretty positive to gay bash. Fuckers.

Bullies are ALWAYS on the offensive! Observing a week of tolerance would make life a bit more pleasant for us all.

...if this were a law. Oh, wait a minute, laws are only for Liberals.

Never mind. :eyes:

She is one venom spewing sideshow, isn't she?

...and clowns freak me out. :scared:

Gawd, rightwingnuts are such pieces of total TRASH!

eh. it gets boring, doughnut?

Culture and Family Institute a dude?

Oh, that's right; conservatives -- gotta control everything!

mikey_the_rat

In 1978, Beverly LaHaye watched a television interview of Betty Friedan, founder of the National Organization for Women. Realizing that Friedan claimed to speak for the women of America, Beverly LaHaye was stirred to action. She knew the feminists' anti-God, anti-family rhetoric did not represent her beliefs, nor those of the vast majority of women.

The first meeting to educate and alert Christian women on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), led by Beverly LaHaye, occurred in San Diego, California. More than 1,200 attended. This was the springboard to beginning Concerned Women for America as a national organization.

www.cwfa.org/history.asp

Beverly LaHaye is married to Tim LaHaye, co-author of the "Left Behind" series. Both are Bob Jones University alumni & powers in the Dominionist movement. Check out CWFA & subsidiary sites for "news" stories soon to be parroted in letters to the editor & reviewed on Fox News.

and in 1979, they were offended by President Carter's 'International Year of the Child' and added that to fighting the ERA:

>Concerned Women for America became officially incorporated in January. CWA's first newsletter and word-of-mouth communication quickly spread word of the new organization.

Very shortly, CWA leaders realized that we were in a struggle against spiritual forces of darkness, and we needed a strong foundation of prayer support. They organized our membership into powerful prayer chapters and privided regular concerns for prayer. CWA would not have survived without the quiet strength of prayer.

President Jimmy Carter named 1979 as The International Year of the Child. CWA began an immediate campaign to expose this United Nations strategy to "nationalize" all children of the world.<

and the list goes on, year after year. Does anything actually meet their approval?

No name-calling, though....

"Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians." - Pat Robertson

*sigh* As a stay-at-home wife and mother, every day is a challenge.

at numerous international conferences on issues of population control, AIDS, women's health, etc. Our US delegation to such events USED to be comprised of scientists, doctors, and researchers with expertise in the issue at hand. Now we send extreme right wing evangelicals with a very twisted agenda.

Bullies grow up into Republicans.

And even if you do object to gays on moral grounds, why should it be okay to call them them names?

:headbang:
rocknation

I think these folks detest the whole idea of tolerance with a passion.

So sad.

I swear to God every time I read a story concerning these wacked out nuts the 'Concerned Woman' is ALWAYS, ALWAYS a man.

If she needs to know at all, but actually it would be better if she didn't worry her pretty little head about such things and concentrated on getting preggers and bringing up the little brats according to the literal written word of the Holy Bible (King James Version).

these women to think for themselves.

Or do the conservatives reserve the right to practice name-calling for themselves?

homophobic Christian Taliban Nazis.

The official title is 'Don't make me stop this car and come back there and smack you all upside the head to knock some sense into you' week.

Dudes. Where were the ladies? makes you think...

Mary Magdalene, after all. What is she, chopped liver?

that's telling the truth.

think it is name-calling."

he was an awesome president.

I need to mark my calendar so I remember not to call those deranged sociopathic numbnut clueless goat-raping cousin-marrying toothless shit-eating fucktard asshats any names for a week.

That was a slur and a half...

hereby awarded a bye.

Damn, wish I'd said that.

to fences after beating the gayness out of them and let them die there. I'm sure Matthew Shepard's family would disagree. :grr:

"...some people say..." or how about "so called..."

Could they say stuff, if they start the sentence with those words?:silly:

Everything to them is "the damn libruls wantin' to make them gays more powerful." Seriously, the way their brains are wired, you can hear the fuses blowing.

Robert is a man I am assuming? Are there women stupid enough to belong to his paternalistic organization? Yikes

in a man's body, I guess I can understand his rampant homophobia.

:crazy:

The deranged basketball coach?

But he wasn't as "Nutty" as this guy seems to be, I think it's someone else.

:shrug:

(The neo-con campaign to discredit evidence/science/facts continues by portraying 'tolerance' of gays as a form of intolerance. More interesting excerpts below with a cogent point from a mother who's son died from bullying: focus on the bully, not the victim to avoid even more psy-ops confusion.-JOM)

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One of GLSEN's most persistent critics is Warren Throckmorton, director of counseling at Grove City College, a Christian school outside Pittsburgh. His skeptical comments about "No Name-Calling Week" have been widely circulated this month on conservative Web sites.

"There's no question middle school can be a difficult place - I'm not advocating that any group gets mistreated," Throckmorton said in a telephone interview.

"But it will definitely make traditionally oriented teachers and parents and kids feel very uncomfortable, if they happen to object to homosexuality on moral grounds," he said of GLSEN's program. "If you disagree, you're hateful, you're bigoted, you're a homophobe. They're using name-calling to combat name-calling."

Another critic is Brenda High of Pasco, Wash., an anti-bullying activist since her 13-year-old son committed suicide in 1998 following harassment at school.

"The use of 'The Misfits' as a basis for this teaching puts the emphasis on the subgroup of the harassment victim instead of on the perpetrator of harassment - the bully," she said.

But Howe said critics of "No Name-Calling Week" seem reluctant to acknowledge the scope of anti-gay harassment in schools.

"Homosexuality is not a moral issue - it's a fact, and kids who are gay, or maybe just different, need to be allowed to grow up in a safe environment just like everybody else," he said.

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"I hope schools will realize it's less an exercise in tolerance than a platform for liberal groups to promote their pan-sexual agenda," said Robert Knight, director of Concerned Women for America's Culture and Family Institute.


A guy is the director of a group of concerned women? what a crock of shite.

Family Institute.

Oh how nice, a woman against gays, named Robert. Oh wait, I'm going to bet it's a man running that Women Institute.

Sort of like ifeminism was devoloped by a man for republican women to call themselves feminists while obeying men...

Okay, I'm a tad bigotted on men running womens groups. If they're extrememly liberal I would be more understanding.

but I seem to have misplaced my agenda. Could someone describe it for me? Is it the rainbow-colored day planner with the 1:00 appointment to take over the world and force all the little xtian kiddies into gay re-education camps written in it?

Where in the hell do they even come UP with shit like "a platform for liberal groups to promote their pansexual agenda"? Who thinks this shit up? The ghost of Goebbels?

They need other outlets, you see, and it's okay if they imagine OTHERS doing it.

My fantsies get pretty wild, why can't theirs--as long as they themselves aren't involved?

Know what gets me every time? This 'homosexual agenda' that I keep hearing about. As though they are actually planning to take over the world!

(It would probably be a better place if they did...)

Now, if they start to take on the dinnerware, then I MUST draw the line...

In the name of Je-see-us-krist, bring on the bullies!

They're complete lack of reason, intelligence and arrogance has reached far beyond the heavens. What more do they want?!?

Next thing you know, they'll be blaming it on SpongeBob! Oh, they already have. Opps! Guess it's my free-spirited, liberal mind going south on me... I mean north.

and the spotlight. The maniacal hatred promoted by the right will be their own undoing.

if we lash out at them, we hate America, we're unpatriotic, we're siding with the terrorists, we're against God and nature...

but... if they promote a climate of hatred- in God's name- that should be acceptable because they are, indeed, God's mouthpiece on the planet?

I agree with Kinber Scott, let them hang themselves with their own rope of stupidity. Slowly, it will start to dawn on the American people that these guys want to drive anyone who is different than them out of society and probably even out of this country.

It is more for the person using it than the person its pasted on (this applies in all cases by the way, no matter if you think the name or words are good or bad). But you can own your own weakness, just listen to the song.

I GOT A NAME
(LYRICS)



Like the pine trees linin’ the windin’ road
I’ve got a name, I’ve got a name
Like the singin’ bird and the croakin’ toad
I’ve got a name, I’ve got a name
And I carry it with me like my daddy did
But I’m livin’ the dream that he kept hid
Movin’ me down the highway
Rollin’ me down the highway
Movin’ ahead so life won’t pass me by

Like the north wind whistlin’ down the sky
I’ve got a song, I’ve got a song
Like the whippoorwill and the baby’s cry
I’ve got a song, I’ve got a song
And I carry it with me and I sing it loud
If it gets me nowhere, I’ll go there proud
Movin’ me down the highway
Rollin’ me down the highway
Movin’ ahead so life won’t pass me by

And I’m gonna go there free
Like the fool I am and I’ll always be
I’ve got a dream, I’ve got a dream
They can change their minds but they can’t change me
I’ve got a dream, I’ve got a dream
Oh, I know I could share it if you want me to
If you’re going my way, I’ll go with you
Movin’ me down the highway
Rollin’ me down the highway
Movin’ ahead so life won’t pass me by
(snip)

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/j/jim-croce/71476.html

debating tools . . .

I'm sorry.. but I have no idea what a "pan-sexual" is. I'm serious. I keeping thinking... but I can't figure it out.

those who are interested in more than just a lifelong monogamous dyadic heterosexual relationship. Basically, it encompasses bisexuals, gayfolx, transgenders, intersexed people, leatherfolk, the poly community, swingers, and a whole raft of other stuff that the zealots are horrified that consenting adults might do behind closed doors.

"pan" meaning "all".

Hate is the engine that drives this neocon brain and it needs fuel constantly, i.e....the working poor who they fear might get something for nothing, a clean environment, a woman who speaks up, small economy cars, and, of course, anything pan-sexual....whatever that is.
Ever wonder how they could ever be happy in Heaven with nothing to hate?

If they think harassment of gay teens is "overemphasized" by those evil liberals, they have obviously never been a gay teen. In fact, they were probably the same people who constantly ridiculed them in school. Do these people have any idea of how many gay teens have been driven to suicide by the relentless mockery they are faced with at school every single day? Do they care? And no, kids should not be turned away from identifying themselves as WHAT THEY ARE. No one has to conform just because these pinheads don't like it, wtf does it matter if they like it or not? Who the fuck are they? We have to conceal our sexual identity so we won't offend one of their pompous asses?

I couldn't agree more.

Is that any relation to Peter Pan? (Insert own joke here.)

Is that like sex in stereo, where you move left and right? And what about Quad? And if you have sex in Dolby Digital 5.1 can you pan all the way around the room, in circles? (That might make me dizzy!)

BTW, I have a friend who works at a zoo that breeds Chinese marsupial bears. He has a "panda-sexual agenda." (bada-boom!)

These scumbags won't be happy until all gays are sent to prison camps. :grr:

for America's Culture and Family Institute? Is he a transsexual?