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The backlash continues! Two days after the Daily News wrote about parents upset about October being declared “Gay & Lesbian History Month” on school calendars, the Inquirer picks up the ball and runs with it, finding even more parents who are upset at something printed on a school calendar. (NBC 10 also chimed in Tuesday with actual images of the calendar in question!)

The Inky reports that about 120 people have complained about a simple line on a calendar. Usually, the district only gets calls from unfunny oppressed middle class white people who ask why there’s a black history month but not a white male history month. (Ho ho!)

And one woman is going as far to protest a sentence on a calendar that she’s doing this:

An irate Senita Watson went to school district headquarters yesterday to find out how she could homeschool her daughter for the month of October. She won’t let her 7-year-old second grader attend Emlen School during that period, she said.

“How can you celebrate gay and lesbian month? What are you going to teach my daughter?” asked Watson, who said she was calling on other parents to boycott the district in October. “They need to have a nonviolence month, not a gay and lesbian month… Our children have enough to worry about with drugs.”

Indeed! It is a requirement of LGBT History Month that we all go around and do drugs and have sex with people of the same gender. Watson’s curriculum for her October homeschooling includes the following:

  • Math (1 calendar + 1 gay month = 0 days of school in October for her daughter!)
  • Nonviolence, except against gays
  • English (except for Oscar Wilde, Gore Vidal, etc.)
  • DARE

It should be an exciting month!

Gay history month sparks district debate [Inquirer]
Nod to Gay Month irks some parents [Daily News]
Images Of Controversial Gay History Calendar