Karen Pike agreed to be a part of a children's show about families, and now she feels she's under attack.
What the hell is wrong with Margaret Spellings, this country, the Bush administration, and PBS? Kudos to KQED for doing the right thing.
This week, the new US secretary of education, Margaret Spellings, denounced PBS for spending public funds to tape an episode of a children's program that features Pike, a lesbian, her partner, Gillian Pieper, and their 11-year-old daughter, Emma. The installment of ''Postcards From Buster," which is produced locally at WGBH-TV (Channel 2) and which had been scheduled to air March 23, was promptly dropped by PBS, which is refusing to distribute the footage to its 349 member stations.
''It makes me sick," said Pike, a 42-year-old photographer in Hinesburg, Vt., who united with Pieper in a civil union in 2001. ''I'm actually aghast at the hatred stemming from such an important person in our government. . . . Her first official act was to denounce my family, and to denounce PBS for putting on a program that shows my family as loving, moral, and committed."
And in honor of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the American Family Association sends out this masterpiece of truncated garbage:
Marriage Protection Amendment To Be Introduced In U.S. HouseThat's literally the whole thing. Guess their server couldn't take it anymore. Heh.
Dear {Fellow Homophobe},
Within a few days, the Marriage Protection Amendment will be introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. This constitutional amendment would make marriage legal only between one man and one woman.
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