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([personal profile] pat Feb. 16th, 2005 11:58 am)
I have seen several references to that group of parents in Illinois supposedly objecting to kids giving Valentines in school to kids of the same gender.

It's clearly satire. The story below it is "Fewer Terrorists Celebrate Christmas." While I realize that we have reached a point in this country where it is difficult sometimes to differentiate between news stories and late-night talk-show monologue jokes, it's important not to latch on to every item that confirms our preexisting beliefs about X, Y, or Z group without doing a minimum of checking. (Googling shows no other references to the story than on one website.) The fact that right-wing nutjobs frequently toss their critical thinking skills out the window is no reason to do likewise.

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Thank you. My first thought upon seeing the story was to think "must go to Snopes." Then I looked at the other content and didn't need anyone to confirm that it was satire.
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