{"id":3970,"date":"2004-04-08T21:52:06","date_gmt":"2004-04-08T21:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3970"},"modified":"2004-04-08T21:52:06","modified_gmt":"2004-04-08T21:52:06","slug":"antistupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3970","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"

A parent’s group opposing a school program used a picture from The Onion on a pamphlet they sent out, supposedly without realizing it was a joke. A school board trustee is now demanding an apology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The picture was copied from the Onion, a satirical newspaper from the United States. The headline of the 1998 story says, ” ’98 homosexual drive nearing goal.”<\/p>\n

The story, written out of San Francisco, goes on to say children are being successfully recruited into homosexuality because of the “gay lobby’s infiltration of America’s public schools.”<\/p>\n

Marilyn Ashworth of STOP said it’s concerned the photo represents what will end up in this region’s schools if the board goes ahead with its plan.<\/p>\n

“We knew it was a gay paper and we hold that even as a joke, the gay community is proud of their advancements into the safe schools program in the U.S.,” she said. “We don’t think homosexuality in schools is a joke.”<\/p>\n

Asked whether she believed it was a real photo, Ashworth said the caption included the teacher’s name, city, state and grade.<\/p>\n

“We researched in depth and that was one of the things we found,” she said, noting the group spent seven weeks accumulating research. [London Free Press<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A parent’s group opposing a school program used a picture from The Onion on a pamphlet they sent out, supposedly without realizing it was a joke. A school board trustee is now demanding an apology. The picture was copied from the Onion, a satirical newspaper from the United States. The headline of the 1998 story […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}