Stamp Out Wackiness!

I guess religion really does poison everything.

An opposite gender dress-up day at an elementary school in Reedsburg raised the ire of a Wisconsin Christian radio group Friday morning, and the district was flooded with calls from outraged listeners.

Students in Pineview Elementary had been dressing in costume all week as part of Wacky Week, an annual tradition at the school. On Friday students had the option of attending school dressed as senior citizens or members of the opposite gender. After a local resident informed the Milwaukee-based Voice of Christian Youth (VCY) America Friday, the radio network interrupted its regular schedule at 10:30 a.m. for a special broadcast that aired on nine radio stations throughout Wisconsin decrying the dress-up day and accusing the school district of promoting alternative lifestyles.

"We became aware of this from constituents in your area. Anything that concerns the populace is important enough to talk about," [some douche] said in an interview Friday. "This is tax-funded — this is not a dress-up party in somebody's house. There are parents, taxpayers … who do not appreciate the imposition of a particular lifestyle being portrayed as a normal lifestyle for the kids."

Ugh. Religion apparently poisons reading comprehension as well: the 'particular lifestyle' in question was not being portrayed as normal - it was a part of Wacky Week! It was portrayed as being wacky! If anything, the National Center for Transgender Equality should've complained! But I suppose this kind of thing is to be expected. After all, its only right and just that a school in southwest Wisconsin should bow to the whims of some obscure sect 132 miles away in Milwaukee - local control and all.

(Actually, where's the AARP on this one? That kid on the left seems to be perpetuating many of the most hurtful stereotypes of the elderly - physically infirm, dementia-addled, eyesight ruined from too many episodes of Murder She Wrote. What with all the baby boomers slowly marching toward senescence, I'd think that the blatant ageism on display by this 9-year-old could could brew up a much bigger shitstorm! I demand action!)