[SML] The more things change...

[Paul Schreiner]

> What you don't understand is that by making a choice, the school is FORCING
> its view, as an instrument of the state.  In essence decreeing that their
> choice is acceptable, even if it does make some people uncomfortable.

No, the school isn't forcing anything.  To "force" that view, it would
have to compel (under threat of some penalty) its students to see or
work on the show without question.

I would argue that it's not even "promoting" the view, even if it
"promotes" the show.

Your idea of the school ("as an instrument of the state") forcing it's
view *merely* because it's being presented as an acceptable
alternative?  Dangerously close to the asinine rhetoric of the
religious right who wail and gnash their teeth at the idea that LGBT
individuals deserve the same rights of marriage and parenthood as
everyone else, by saying that the government is "forcing homosexuality
on us."

Poppycock.

> Of course it's true, just not visible.  Students (or their parents) will
> just opt not to participate.  There are too many good scripts available to
> require that the school put on something that will offend some, and limit
> participation.

Every good script offends someone.  That's what good art does.