Anti-gay parents use The Onion as a source for their pamphlet

A school board trustee is demanding an apology from a parents' group that used a fake photo from a satirical newspaper on its pamphlets opposing the expansion of a safe schools policy. Simply Truths Our Priority, or STOP, handed out pamphlets and computer discs with a 300-page book of Internet research outside a public meeting last week.

The session was a chance for the Thames Valley District school board to get input on its plan to expand the safe schools program -- a move to protect gay and lesbian students.

But STOP argues the board is changing the curriculum and will promote a homosexual lifestyle in schools.

"Satire is apparently lost on rigid individuals," said London trustee Peter Jaffe. "Taking something from a spoof newspaper and presenting it as reality crosses the line. (The photo) plays on people's worst fears. I would hope this group will make a full and public apology."

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http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/LondonFreePress/News/2004/04/08/412787.html

Sean Mills, president of the Onion, laughed when he heard the news.

"The motto the writers have is we're not going after the right or the left, we're just going after people who are dumb," Mills said.
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of course, 5 and 1/2 weeks of that was figuring out how to turn on the computer. :eyes:

"We researched in depth and that was one of the things we found," she said, noting the group spent seven weeks accumulating research.

spoofs their organization.

Clueless.... completely clueless.

Boy is that an understatement. How incredibly appalling that people like this are allowed to influence policy anywhere on anything at anytime. If the school board is waiting on an apology, I wouldn't hold my breath - these idiots think they are never wrong.