High School Field Trip To 'Rent' Too Gay For Parents

A group of parents is calling a high school field trip a "promotion of homosexuality". The parents are threatening to pull their teenage children from a Ponaganset High School trip to see the movie "Rent" at a local theater.

"Rent", the film version of the long running Pulitzer and Tony-winning drama, is about a group of young New Yorkers coming to grips with poverty and AIDS features two gay couples.

Although rated PG-13, the parents say the movie is too controversial and adult for the grade 9 students.

"The lifestyles depicted in this movie are not the majority, not the lifestyles of 99.9 percent of the kids that live in these two towns," School Committee cochair Donna Mansolillo told a meeting of the committee this week.

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon05/12/120805riRent.htm

Let's hope the wheel of karma runs over Mrs. Mansolillo and every one of her own children turn out to be "that way."

People are....people are....people are just so fucked up.

since in one of the gay couples they both have AIDS

Not only do they think being gay is contagious, they apparently also think that watching a movie can 'turn' you gay.

Maybe they should take the kids for a special seasonal showing of 'Elf', with Will Ferrell. Now, that's good, clean, family -- oh, right. Then they'd all want to be Elvish.

"not the lifestyles of 99.9 percent of the kids that live in these two towns" I'll bet there are more gay kids than that in that place.

Lord knows (literally!) that we don't want our children to learn about the lives of people outside of their two towns. . . they might leave and find success elsewhere!

This woman knows nothing about teenagers at all.

Since this is my home state i just have to comment. a couple of minor points:

1st of all, the kids probably think its 'too gay' a movie, but not in reference to homosexuality.

2nd, good for the adminstrator who isn't caving to the loonies and said it 'promotes discussion of tolerence and diversity'

3rd, Hey Mrs. Monsolillo !!! I've been to foster/gloster; the only thing ever to come out those cow pastures are steers and queers !! Which one are you !!

never over heard teenagers talk among themselves..no wonder their kids think they are crazy...

It's pretty scary stuff for kids to know that there are all sorts of people in the world besides the Taliborn-agains that seem to infest Glocester like a plague of locusts. There are people in the world that are different colors. There are people in the world who live in fancy houses as well as those who inhabit abandoned buildings. There are people in the world who love all different types and genders of people. And there are people in the world who die from all sorts of causes.

Fortunately, at least for those of us who value being able to think for ourselves and encouraging others to do likewise, the attempts by the wingnuts to force cancelation of the field trip failed. As another parent (one who apparently exercises that dangerous trait of thinking for herself) pointed out: "I don't see what the problem is. If you don't want your kid to go, don't sign the permission slip."

Ah, such straightforward logic! No doubt it's lost on Mrs. Mansolillo and her ilk who refuse to rest as long as any kid in Glocester remains at risk of thinking or forming opinions for him or herself.

As "Seasons of Love," one of Rent's big show-stopping tunes puts it, there are "Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes that make up a year". But even one of those precious minutes spent listening to the likes of Mrs. Mansolillo is too much.

they thought that dating other guys was too gay.

It promotes climbing into wardrobes to enter magical kingdoms, witches, and talking lions. :crazy: