Sunday, May 23, 2010

Unborn fetus dolls handed out in an elementary school in Virgina. wtf.

What is worse than the extreme Right in the United States? The extreme Religious Right.

From the Crooks and Liars website:

"Oakwood Elementary's principal was placed on administrative leave Friday as school officials investigated why life like, 4-inch-long plastic fetus dolls were given to dozens of third-, fourth- and fifth-grade students.

On Thursday, the school staffer thought to be responsible for handing out the dolls was placed on leave."

There's a picture of the "doll" these crazies handed out. And if you read the entire post on Crooks and Liars, the blogger goes on to say:

"Even though the article didn't mention it specifically, I would be willing to bet the students receiving these "gifts" were girls, not boys, too. That's what we need...to intimidate and indoctrinate the girls at a young age while giving boys a pass. Good job, Virginia. "

I can only agree with Karoli. If this happened at the school my son was attending, I'd freak out. Maybe that's why I decided to raise my son in Europe where nobody would dream of trying to brainwash kids like that. Without prior parent consent no less. Despite living in a country with a shitload of Catholic holidays (Austria), the majority of the people take it with nonchalance ie good for holidays but not much else.

Why is a country that was founded on the basis of religious freedom full of such puritanical tyrants? I don't get it.

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