-By Warner Todd Huston
Here is a story that shows why we don’t let children decide what they want to do for themselves. In Arizona, a high school teacher thought it would be a great idea for his kids to put on a play that features incest and bestiality. He got suspended for this leftist idea, but the silly children are rallying behind this warper of souls hoping to get his punishment vacated.
Stirring controversy, Drama teacher Andrew Cupo of Cactus Shadows High School near Scottsdale, Arizona, chose the Edward Albee play The Goat, or Who is Sylvia, a supposedly “award winning” play that features obscene language, humans having sex with animals, not to mention incest.
As Wikipedia describes it: “The tale of a married, middle-aged architect, Martin, his wife Stevie, and their son Billy, whose lives crumble when he falls in love with a goat, the play focuses on the limits of an ostensibly liberal society. Through showing this family in crisis, Albee challenges audience members to question their own morality in the face of other social taboos including infidelity, pedophilia, incest and, of course, bestiality.”
Naturally, as soon as some parents learned of this debacle about to befall their children, they started complaining to school authorities.
After the initial complaints were heard, school authorities made a sensible decision and suspended this porn-pushing teacher–or put him on administrative leave, as it were.
Police were also called in to investigate the situation but after looking into it decided not to file any charges (truthfully, I’m not sure what they’d charge him with). But the school acted properly by getting this nut out of the classroom.
Nonetheless, parents are still outraged over this “disgusting” porn being pushed in their children’s classroom.
KTVK Channel 3 interviewed a few of these outraged parents:
“This is pornography, simply put,” said Michael Longman, who learned about the play from his 15-year-old son. “They’re having me play a guy who (expletive) a goat.”
“Tony Award-winning porn is what it is,” said Douglas, a parent who did not give his last name. “It is a play that is horrifically disgusting. It has every dark part of human sexuality that you could ever explore.”
Of course the Albee play is just another example of how “art” in America has turned into deviance instead of uplift, but that this creepy sex-obsessed “teacher” thought it was a good idea to have children ape this garbage is quite another thing.
The school has not made a final decision on the ultimate fate of this teacher, but firing him would probably be a good solution.
Many of the school’s kids, however, would not be very happy if that ended up being the teacher’s punishment. They are rallying behind this guy.
They’ve started Facebook pages to support him, launched Twitter hashtags (#freecupo), even made T-Shirts to show how much they like this teacher.
Kids like it when adults illegally buy them beer and slip them drugs, too, mind you, but that shouldn’t make their “liking” him consequential. This is why kids aren’t legally able to make their own decisions. They haven’t the capacity to make them and we don’t let them do so for a reason!
So, what do you think, here? Should this teacher be fired and never allowed to get his twisted hands on kids again? Or is this all an over reaction to an “award-winning” play? Tell us what you think, won’t you?
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, MrConservative.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, Wizbang.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.
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