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Imagine being so terrified of a teenage girl playing a fictional character that you’d rather cancel an entire musical than let students enjoy the arts. This isn’t protecting children. It’s punishing them to appease right-wing extremists.

Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com

A Texas district canceled a high school production of "Little Shop of Horrors" after a girl was cast as Seymour. Officials cited the state's anti-drag law (which was struck down in court), then offered other lazy excuses. What a debacle. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/texas-scho...

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Some times I feel like I live in a different planet. Assuming that stuff like this is, in fact, real (hard to believe that anyone can be this regressive!)