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It was clear this was not to be your average assembly. Before a packed school hall he projects a photograph of Sir Elton next to a quotation that reads: 'There's nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex...They should draw the line at goats.' Mr Dean demands of his young audience: 'Is that a good moral standard? Would you allow your son or daughter to spend the night at Elton's house?'
He then picks apart Lady Gaga hits such as The Fame and Born This Way, taking exception to her placing the lyrics 'No matter black, white or beige' side by side with 'No matter gay, straight or bi'. He says: 'What she's saying is if you're black it's the same thing as being gay. Sexual deviancy is the same thing'.
'You're born as a product of your parents. But your actions - listen to this - you do have control over it.' And after an embittered rant in which Mr Dean claims music videos give a false impression of what love is, he asks: 'Did you know the average age death of a homosexual male is 42 years old? 'Yeah, his actions literally kill him and he lives about half his life out.'
He adds: 'Up until 1961 [homosexuality] was illegal in all 50 states. We protected that institution. 'In 1998 if you were busted in Rhode Island you'd go to prison for 20 years; in 1973 they thought it was a mental illness. 'Now what are they teaching you?'
It was clear this was not to be your average assembly. Before a packed school hall he projects a photograph of Sir Elton next to a quotation that reads: 'There's nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex...They should draw the line at goats.' Mr Dean demands of his young audience: 'Is that a good moral standard? Would you allow your son or daughter to spend the night at Elton's house?'
He then picks apart Lady Gaga hits such as The Fame and Born This Way, taking exception to her placing the lyrics 'No matter black, white or beige' side by side with 'No matter gay, straight or bi'. He says: 'What she's saying is if you're black it's the same thing as being gay. Sexual deviancy is the same thing'.
'You're born as a product of your parents. But your actions - listen to this - you do have control over it.' And after an embittered rant in which Mr Dean claims music videos give a false impression of what love is, he asks: 'Did you know the average age death of a homosexual male is 42 years old? 'Yeah, his actions literally kill him and he lives about half his life out.'
He adds: 'Up until 1961 [homosexuality] was illegal in all 50 states. We protected that institution. 'In 1998 if you were busted in Rhode Island you'd go to prison for 20 years; in 1973 they thought it was a mental illness. 'Now what are they teaching you?'
I guess some people think it is indoctrination unless the speaker is some one from Stormfront teaching the kinds how to stomp those damn gays so hard they stop having the gall to be gay. At least not publicly so they don't give those bigots a funny feeling that makes them question their sexuality.
If this was a public school, it's just another case in point of why we need vouchers yesterday. If you want to listen to an anti-gay rant, go to the anti-gay school; pro-gay rant, pro-gay school. If you want your kid studying math, science, language, and history send him to the math/sci/lang/hist school.
Anyway, I had never heard the number cited that the avg gay male has a lifespan of 42, so I googled it and found this: The seven deadly statistical sins
So it looks like the number is way bogus. btw, above link is a great little piece, Off-topic, but I found this excerpt about the dangers of extrapolation of numbers to be funny:
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Originally Posted by S. Ross
During his first tenure as Environmental Protection Agency chief in the early 1970s, William D. Ruckelshaus spoke about the increased use of cars and decreased amount of car pooling for commuting. "In 1960," he said, "each car entering a central city had 1.7 people in it. By 1970, this had dropped to less than 1.2. If present trends continue, by 1980 more than one out of every 10 cars entering a city center will have no driver!" Not all the journalists at the press conference got the joke.
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Won't someone think of the children??? 
