A Vancouver Island author’s picture book about a puppy at a Pride parade is among several works at the centre of a U.S. Supreme Court challenge over whether parents have the constitutional right to opt their children out of lessons involving books with LGBTQ characters.
Robin Stevenson’s Pride Puppy!, a rhyming alphabet book, features a dog that goes to a parade with its family and breaks loose. Colourful illustrations by Julie McLaughlin depict the puppy bounding through celebratory scenes that include rainbow and transgender pride flags and characters featuring a range of ages, races, abilities and gender identities.
A district court denied their motion and an appeals court affirmed, saying that “simply hearing about other views does not necessarily exert pressure to believe or act differently than one’s religious faith requires.”
No, no, you don’t understand! Merely hearing about the existence of different people is literal persecution!
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Fuck, these people are fragile.
My kid (5) grabbed “The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish Swish Swish” at the library and she laughed her ass off at all the mustached women dancing on every page. Kids don’t fucking care. Sometimes dudes dress like ladies. Some people are gay. That’s all you have to tell them. If you don’t, your kid will just grow up to a fucking idiot who cannot comprehend these simple facts.
The country of freedom sure does a lot to prevent the free expression of others.
Why is it that the only freedom they ever seem to focus on is the freedom to isolate and not the freedom to participate?
Before going to America, many puritans migrated to The Netherlands. They left for America because they didn’t just want freedom of religion, they wanted freedom from secularism. I guess some things never change.
Freedom to be white, christian, and male.
You forgot able-bodied, straight, and cisgender.
Edit: Oh, and English-speaking.
Guess we should add natural born citizen, also.
That sounds nice. I have to check if this is available in my country.
