A gay dad sounds off on the elementary school mob that cancelled a play about a gay penguin family
There was a significant hearing this week on Tuesday about same sex relationships and whether to ban them. You likely missed this one because you were focused on that OTHER hearing in front of the Supreme Court, the one on whether all states in the union should perform and recognize same sex marriages.
The case before the school board was this: the Sierra Charter Foothill School was scheduled to host a performance of the play, And Then Came Tango , based on the true story of two male penguins who hatched and orphaned egg and raised the chick as their own.
More specifically and touchingly, Freeman zeroes in on Roy and Silo, two males who form a penguin bond akin to their male-female-paired peers, engaging in mating rituals and trying to hatch a rock. Even more touchingly, Lily, the young Junior Keeper, convinces Walter, the zookeeper in charge of the exhibit, to let Silo and Roy incubate an orphaned egg which they do to loving fruition.
Of course the obvious question here-- one that's uppermost in many peoples' minds, is simply this: is this story really about Penguins-- or is it really more about some people acting like a bunch of Silly Gooses?
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