Be afraid - be very afraid

And lo, a darkness came over the land and the bigots did blast their bilgewater over all creation and freely so, yet they were not satisfied and stood even more fervently in their fear and rage and wouldst condemn all the righteous to the pit. From AP for November 17:

A homecoming tradition in which boys dress like girls and vice versa in a tiny Texas school district won't be held Wednesday after a parent complained about what she regarded as the event's homosexual overtones.

As a substitute for "TWIRP Day," the schools ranging from elementary to senior high decided to hold "Camo Day" - with black boots and Army camouflage to be worn by everyone who wants to participate.

TWIRP, which stands for "The Woman Is Requested to Pay," was hosted by Spurger schools for years during Homecoming Week - to give boys and girls a chance to reverse social roles and let older girls invite boys on dates, open doors and pay for sodas.

Plano-based Liberty Legal Institute issued a news release Tuesday reporting that it "came to the aid of a concerned parent" over an "official cross-dressing day" in the school district 150 miles northeast of Houston.

"It is outrageous that a school in a small town in east Texas would encourage their 4-year-olds to be cross-dressers," Liberty Legal Institute attorney Hiram Sasser said in the release.

Tanner T. Hunt Jr., the school district's attorney, called Sasser's statement "inflammatory and misleading." He said the district never planned or conducted a "cross-dressing day."

"They are a tiny little East Texas school district," Hunt said. "It never occurred to them that anyone could find anything morally reprehensible about TWIRP Day. I mean, they've been having it for years, probably for generations, and it's the first time anybody has complained."

It was a silly little tradition that had been going on "for years, probably for generations," but it took only one paranoid homophobic bigot, Delana Davies by name, backed by the fat cat fatheads of some reactionary legal scumbag outfit to bring it down. So instead of some supposed evil, filthy, sinful celebration of homosexuality via "TWIRP Day," they will have a pure, clean, holy celebration of war, violence, killing, bloodshed, mayhem, hate, and destruction via "Camo Day." Surely Jesus would have approved.

I say my blog is about "surviving a dark time." And I do believe we will survive - but that does not mean the darkest days are not still ahead.