Comments on: Learn to be a Wackadoodle

By: Bill S

Bill S — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:37:19 +0000

Oh, I so wish I could pass for 25 to go undercover. How hard could it be? They parrot the same stuff over and over again.
But I’d pretend to be REALLY hardcore anti-gay, just to see how much they’d agree with me. Just to ratchet it up further, I’ll refuse to speak to Laurie Higgens, since the Bible expreessly forbids women from teaching, so her presence means she’s an ungodly woman. “Cast that whore out of here!”

By: William

William — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:13:23 +0000

Although my natural first reaction to the launch of this so-called academy is one of contempt and derision – which, of course, it richly deserves – there is a more serious aspect to be considered.

Given that some parents may be sufficiently ill-advised as to send their children to this program, by the law of averages some of these young people will themselves be gay, whether or not they are yet aware of it; others will be the brothers, sisters or other relatives of young gay people. What effect will it have on them? I find the prospect quite frightening.

By: Regan DuCasse

Regan DuCasse — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 03:15:15 +0000

I wasn’t upset, just a little surprised. But no worries.
I AM smiling because I know what a sweetheart you are and you meant to make a good point.
And…you did.

By: Emily K

Emily K — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:54:45 +0000

also, yeah, clown college is HARD. You have to have the “right stuff” to graduate.

Ringling also set up an excellent program for video game design in their art school.

By: Emily K

Emily K — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:53:35 +0000

those clowns are f***in’ scary as hell.. and i don’t even have a clown phobia.

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:56:30 +0000

Regan,

I thought about you when I put this picture up… but I thought it would make you smile instead of upset you.

I am hoping that people can catch the irony of contrasting a real clown school – an organization dedicated to teaching others how to bring laughter and joy – with this academy of “clowns” who are dedicated to teaching others to bring anguish and harm.

By: cooner

cooner — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:26:55 +0000

Heh, Regan … funny … I was just coming in here to leave the old standby comment …

Don’t compare these people to clowns. It’s an insult to clowns everywhere.

*rimshot*

By: Paula Brooks

Paula Brooks — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:40:13 +0000

May be we should tell Ike Skleton about this school….

By: Regan DuCasse

Regan DuCasse — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:36:08 +0000

I assure you, I’m not offended so much as dismayed.
The RBBB logo there, is sporting the visages of three friends of mine, who are exceptionally talented clowns…and very gay friendly people as well.

I am, a former RBBB circus dancer/aerialist/elephant rider and I was just wondering if another image would have sufficed?

Having said that…

What Peter LaB and co are planning is so sick and twisted. Don’t the stories of children tormenting another child to the point of suicide over perception of homosexuality bad enough?!

Isn’t the cold, calculated murders of children like Lawrence King, Sakia Gunn and Freddy Martinez something that they’d have to admit has roots in exactly what they want to reinforce in the young?

Is this their agenda, more dead kids? The urgency of OUR message, is legitimate and necessary.

Do they have ANY positive, life enhancing and non violent results to point to for all their teaching?
ONLY that might, justify their actions.

But there is nothing positive that could come from it. Just more pain and unnecessary suffering inflicted on people because these agents prefer fear and ignorance over honesty and peaceful social cooperation for children.

I don’t think the ADL, SPLC and GLSEN and so on could act too soon against something like this.

This is far beyond 1st amendment rights.
When lives are at stake, there at least has to be warnings against what the outcomes of such enterprise actually is.

By: Priya Lynn

Priya Lynn — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:08:02 +0000

Doot do do do doodle doot do do do do…

That’s it, you people have held me back long enough, I’m going to clown college.