Did you know that having fun is an abomination of God? I sure didn't!
In a mind-blowing depiction of typical fundamentalist Christian paranoia, a religious-based radio station in Wisconsin went raving insane over a local elementary school's "Wacky Week," of which one day was dedicated to dressing as the opposite sex:
REEDSBURG, Wis. (AP) - An elementary-school event in which kids were encouraged to dress as members of the opposite gender drew the ire of a Christian radio group, whose angry broadcast prompted outraged calls to the district office.
Students at Pineview Elementary in Reedsburg had been dressing in costume all last week as part of an annual school tradition called Wacky Week. On Friday, students were encouraged to dress either as senior citizens or as members of the opposite sex.
A local resident informed the Voice of Christian Youth America on Friday. The Milwaukee-based radio network responded by interrupting its morning programming for a special broadcast that aired on nine radio stations throughout Wisconsin. The broadcast criticized the dress-up day and accused the district of promoting alternative lifestyles.
Citing what can only be a recently discovered section of the Bible that bans playing dress-up, the radio station's program director managed to connect harmless cross-dressing with an insult to God and family values and any other buzz issues currently popular among modern religious agitators. Of course, the program director didn't have the guts to just come out and say he's a backwoods homophobe, so he blamed the Bible. Typical.
"We believe it's the wrong message to send to elementary students," said Jim Schneider, the network's program director. "Our station is one that promotes traditional family values. It concerns us when a school district strikes at the heart and core of the Biblical values. To promote this to elementary-school students is a great error."
I think it's in great error that you're such a raving lunatic. The core of Biblical values? So you're telling me that of all the alleged ideals of the Christian tradition -- morality, forgiveness, charity, etc. -- that preventing people from dressing like the opposite sex is the most important? Fucking. Wow.
Note to Jim Schneider: You're not doing yourself any favors in the conversion department.
1 comment:
GEEZ. This kind of stuff really riles me up. I can't believe that people out there really find this stuff to be of any importance at all. It brings to mind a church I once ran across that had serious issues with people who wore wedding rings (such a travesty that you MIGHT not get into heaven should you do such a wicked thing). These people obviously have their priorities mixed up (and also have very interesting ways of interpreting the Bible...). Ah, extremists. At least they make for good blog fodder.
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