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Mural Depicting Marriage Deemed Offensive Religious...
How ridiculous!!
http://reason.com/blog/2012/04/10/brickbat-the-child-is-father-to-the-man
Officials at Rhode Island's Pilgrim High School asked junior Elizabeth Bierenday to paint a mural on a school wall, and they OKed her design, which showed a young boy aging into a grown man. But after the mural was finished, they painted over the final image which showed the man with a woman and child with wedding rings over the heads of the couple. Bierenday says she was told that image was offensive and could be considered a religious symbol.
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Re: Mural Depicting Marriage Deemed Offensive Religious...
Yeah, I live here and this was painfully embarrassing - and I'm a liberal, non-religious sort. If I'm not mistaken it wasn't just the wedding rings - first I'd heard of that, really, but I haven't been following it that closely - but also that the traditional male/female family might offend and exclude gays.
Why would they want to even go there? If gays have a right to be offended by a heterosexual marriage, than it must mean the reverse is true as well. (Why give them that ammunition) Or all single people. Heck, let's just tape our mouths so we can't possibly ever offend anyone, even by accident!
Firstly, this is bull.
Even so "wedding rings" over their heads. Are we talking halo's? Even if it was halo's, I still call bull. But that is the only reason I can think of that anyone would care at all about this - and anyone that did think it was halo's, and got offended, needs to seriously get over it. I struggle to think of a less important thing to get worried about.
I saw a picture on the news and it was not offensive at all. However, on the news last night they said that the student would now be allowed to repaint the part that was painted over.
I wonder if the school was just being crazy because of all of the hullabaloo over the prayer banner in Cranston?
For those that aren't familiar with that story, that is the one of the high school student who sued the school and was represented by the ACLU. The school then had to remove a school prayer banner which was in the auditorium.
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I should add that at first glance the wedding rings did look like halos - which is why I think the school got concerned and made the link the prayer banner.
But upon closer look they are wedding rings.
And I live in Providence.
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That's what makes this all the worse, IMO. The furor still hasn't died down over Cranston. Now this. It just gives more fuel to those who are convinced that our government won't be happy until they are teaching elementary students to be gay and worship Satan, ya know?
Actually, let me walk that back a bit, because this is irking more than just the paranoid crazies, and I'd hate to have everybody so pissed off when there's an actual case of religion in the schools that it gets tolerated. I believe in picking your moments to cry wolf, I guess.