Gay Coloring Assignment Has Parents of Nursery Schoolers Seeing Red

Parents of toddlers attending a Geneva, NY nursery school responded in outrage after their children were instructed to draw and color a known symbol of the homosexual agenda: the rainbow. The school has since apologized for the episode and is taking measures to prevent future incidents, including limiting the number of crayons and markers which children can use to color.

A move to limit coloring tots to three shades: red, white and blue

By Cole Walters, education correspondent

GENEVA, NY—When four-year-old Amanda Parker arrived home from nursery school at East Street Elementary last week, she was eager to show her parents the picture she'd drawn that day. But when the tot removed the crayon-on-manila-paper creation from her bulging backpack, her parents were shocked at what they saw. Amanda had drawn and colored a rainbow, the official symbol of the homosexual agenda in this country.

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"To say we were taken aback would be a serious understatement," says Amanda's father Dan, a facilities technician. "As soon as we saw what she had in her hand our jaws just dropped." Then came the hard part: Dan and his wife Margie had to explain to their daughter what was wrong with the picture she'd drawn and the colors she'd used.

"She got it," he notes. "We tore it up as a family." That night, with Amanda tucked in and in the arms of the Sandman, Dan and Margie began to discuss filing a lawsuit against the school.

For school, not pot of gold
Administrators at East Street Elementary declined to talk to the press, but sources close to the school say that they've acted quickly to curtail any damage stemming from the incident. Katie Chernowitz, the teacher who encouraged her students to both draw and color rainbows, has been placed on indefinite administrative leave. The school has also moved to limit the colors of markers, crayons and paints that its K-4 students can use in an effort to prevent future rainbow incidents from occurring and further tarring the school's reputation.

Color me angry
That's good news, says peeved parent Connie Martineau, who called the school principal after her son Scout expressed some discomfort about the rainbow coloring assignment. "We've taught him well," says Mrs. Martineau. "He knows that a rainbow, especially one that includes colors like pink and purple, isn't just something you see in the sky after it rains. It's a symbol of the homosexual agenda."

Now, several of the parents have formed a committee to approve in-class assignments—from coloring to spelling exercises—to ensure that they meet strict family values standards. "If we had learned that the teacher expected them to color rainbows, you can guarantee that it wouldn't have happened," says Mrs. Martineau.

Searching for symbols
The rainbow incident is just the latest skirmish in an increasingly hard-fought culture war, in which parents like Martineau must be hyper vigilant in the event that their children are exposed to gay-friendly images and language in the classroom. Parents across the country are now on the look out for rainbows and the colors used to create them, as well as other known symbols of the homosexual agenda including dancing flags, kites, bubble gum, tambourines, whistles and green lasers.

 

Three colors: red, white and blue
Back at the Parker's house, Dan and Margie are helping Amanda prepare for another day at nursery school. Into the VeggieTales book bag goes a snack pack, a child's cardigan and a small box of crayons. This last item is new—just a week ago, Amanda routinely took a 64-count box of crayons to school, including a set of multicultural crayons to help her draw and color different skin tones. But today Amanda is taking just three crayons to school: one each in red, white and blue.

"That may not be every color in the rainbow but that's really the point," says Dan Parker. "If she has to give up a few colors to fight the homosexual agenda, it's worth it."

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Comments

[fugu]

IS EVERYBODY GONE BAZOOIE IN AMERICA??

I can't believe this is true... it can't be... there's no such stupid people this is all a nightmare...

[Jerako]

FAKE'D.

It's fake. We have confirmation. It isn't real.

And if you're going to call the Americans morons, have at least the decency to check your fucking spelling first, you ignorant twats.

[robin]

din fitta

[A True American]

Rainbow -> peace (pace) -> unity -> everyones the same -> ancient greece population was strongly homosexual -> africa has a strong homosexual culture -> south america does too -> FIVE FINGERS, TWO HANDS, ARMS, LEGS, A BRAIN -> we all have them, we're all the same -> God created us as equals and "loves all his children"

[B]

Looks like a lot of real dumbasses have posted so far. Look around at the site, look around at the wallpaper. How can any intelligent, reasonable human being not question the validity of an article like this? If an article isn't on a respected news site you should always, ALWAYS question its validity. I hate to tell you people, but this is the internet. If everyone was telling the truth all the time on the internet than I'm knocking on your doors right now with a bloody ax. OH SHIT!

This is especially silly with the Europeans looking down on the Americans. You know what? You are just as horrible as these make-believe people. Judging a whole nation on the actions of a few and refusing to look at the facts. Or be the least be reasonable and tolerant.

[chuckles]

hello from canada,i grew up with a father that would
probably tore that girl's painting.
it was also father that would used evry authority and "his parental love and care"to argue with me when i was teenager that you cannot be good person if you do not believe in the god.
he would yell at me that he is ashamed of me that i would even say such a thing.
until i fully accepted jesus back into my life..and being queer ,after this very asshole molested me i spend about dozen nightmarish years KNOWING,not believing ,that i will go to hell.
all that time loving jesus stood behind me and reminded where i was going*S*.
how come i did not go insane *S*?.because that was as forbiden as suiside.i was spinned for an eternity like hopless buterfly ,terified speechless ,as the merciful jesus looked on.
you right wing fundamentalist assholes ,child molesting perverts YOu are the ones listening with an ear on the bathroom door if your son is not selfbusing himself.
you are the ones fucking your underage daughters.
you are the proof that god does not exist,or he is realy sadistic childfucking pedofile in the sky,with fat priests lached on his cock sucking his dicgusting fluid of hate.
As for canada*S* canada was realy founded by so calle british loyalists,who realy were ,wave of new british emigrants and who got fucked over bythe americans.
could not get good land and so on . and when revolution started they started to get even with you yanks.for ripping them of . we have no love for you .
we never are realy your friends.
you deserve your own faith because you voted for bush either to stop some of your children to be living as people.so now your good healthy straigh boys and girls are torn to pieces in arabia .
and only because you did not care about your mutants.
so your own nice kids are dead.*S* GOOOOOOOD.
we are not people for you ,not your children,so you will not have any children at all, you fucks who send your sons to die to make bush rich.go fuck yourself all left and right,by

[Sue]

I LIVE IN GENEVA, NY. EAST STREET ELEMENTRY??? NO SUCH SCHOOL EVEN EXISTS!!!! I'm sorry that some idiots dragged our city into this pathetic joke, it's truly sad someone would even write such an article.

[Thomas]

Are you not ashamed to live in America?
You may be technologically advanced, but that's it!
You are such backwards people! Amazing!

Greets from Europe, where freedom really exists!

[Crissy]

Oh brother!!! I am heterosexual, married with three children.

I have straight friends, gay friends, bi friends, and friends of all colors and nationalities. I don't feel the need to shield my children from any of them. I am also an American from Ohio of all places. Can you believe an American (let alone an Ohioan) could be so open minded?

It was a joke people. Most Americans DON'T think this way, not from the younger generations anyways, and we're the future of this Country so we're the generation that counts.

I can not believe the hatred from other countries towards Americans. If you are so open minded then how can you express such views towards other human beings? The same thing you think Americans feel towards homosexuality is the same prejudice you feel for America.

It was a joke a people, although possibly not in the best of taste.

I can say one thing, I would prefer my children grow up to be Gay Americans than hate spewing "liberal open-minded Europeans" who want us Americans "killed for our stupidity" or "for all Americans to commit suicide and die!".

C'mon people, if you can be tolerate towards homosexuality then you can be tolerant towards America's stupidity. We're certainly tolerant towards yours. :)

[omfg]

omg you are fucking pussies..god damn you americans..you have to stop other coutries from having a-bombs so they cant control the world..but you have to have them so that you can! omg WHO THE FUCK CARES ABOUT A FUCKING RAINBOW!!! "we'll reclaim our rainbow" OMFG!!! YOUR?!?!?! ITS FUCKING EVERYONES RAINBOW! you fucks over there cant even see the fucking rainbow cuz all the fog and shit is blocking it..your god damn eyelids are probably getting so fat they are closing your eyes unintensionally! HOLY FUCK! go fuck yourself America..

[Ahmed]

hate america, fucking gays

[Antwoine]

you people just dont' get it do you if you want to be gay then ok but please dont' force it on everybody else espcially the children they dont' need to know about this lifestyle espcially at a very young age.and it makes me so damn mad when people get critized for thier religous beliefs.I think that teaching homosexuality in public schools is going to cause more controversy. and this whole thing about teaching tolorance is just a excuse for them to advance their gay agenda, please stop foring it on everyone else no body wants to see two men or two women kissing in public and I know any parent in their right mind wouldnt' want their kids to see that either. they need to stop because they are going to far

[Antwoine]

the Homosexuals activst and supporters are determined to force their lifestyle down our throats and now they want to brain wash our children in to accepting their sick and unacceptable lifestyle,but you its sad that alot of those people who are homosexual are going to hell,my advice to them is to repent now and if not please dont' drag our children to hell with you

[babs]

man, i really thought it was true! i think we can expect since I heard the Pope condamning Harry Potter! Where is this country being led to? I would give everything to see a democrat becoming President again (and i ain't even a democrat)!

I don't think we'll burn in hell coz we're gay but coz we live in a republican country...

[ben]

let's just limit amanda's crayons to one color: black!

her pictures will be as sad as a lot of these comments above...

oh, and something else, for those who still didn't get it:

IT'S FAKE! (still funny though)

[poms]

serious funtime here - haha, you made my day!

thomas (germany)

[ChristianInCanada]

I might be Canadian, but I'm still offended and disgusted by the anti-american comments posted here. True, the story went a little far, and is probably satire. However, I don't like it how gays have stolen the symbol of the first covenant, and claimed it as their own. Please USA, don't put Canada in the same group as Belgium and Holland. There might be gay marriage here now, but the vote was close, and we can still overturn it after the conservatives win the next election. There is still a lot of opposition here, and a lot of the country is mad as hell. Politicians who voted for it are being booted from their churches. This is far from over. We'll reclaim our rainbow yet!

[No matter]

Honi soit, qui mal y pense.

Don't put your paranoid fears into your children!

[evil_nymph]

my my. and i always though america was the land of the free. "free speech" Bollocks. America is not free, it is a land of discrimination, ignorance and corruption. what a wonderful enviroment for children to grow up in.
Just let your children be children, and not make them worry about weather thier scribbles and doodles are associated with homosexualism.

Gay Rights!

[Elisabeth]

That article was SICK! All kids draw rainbows! I used to... Rainbows are beautiful. And to tear up your childs painting is EVIL! It takes more to make a person gay than to paint rainbows you idiots.

[Nikki Pepperman]

Oh and one more thing...I highly doubt your children even knew what Gay people are until you told them yourselves.You parents are the one who told the children that the rainbow is a sighn for Gays...not the rainbows themselves.So blame yourselves

GAY PRIDE!

[Nikki Pepperman]

Haha this has got to be the stupidest thing I've ever read.Im bi and now im starting to wish i were straight....NOT!Wow...Now I hate my own country...how sad.I really hope this is a joke.

[Daniel]

You ignorant hicks are whats wrong with america. Jesus Christ, it's a rainbow, get the bible out of your ass. And red white and blue? Yeah I bet your kid are going to have loads of fun with those colours. I can't wait to see her grow up to resent you. You should have your children taken away from you if you're that stupid.

[Mona]

You guys are morons.

It's a friggin Rainbow for God's Sake, something that is natural. Every kid draws rainbows at some point in their lives.

Red, White and Blue.

Way to go for Brainwashing the youth of America.

[illern]

If this is true I'm speechless.
If this isnt true you American should really worry that other people even consider this to be true.

Something is wrong.