March 17, 2008 | Sex & Society

Church group protests "Angels" in school

Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Angels In America" should not be part of an Advanced Placement English literature course at Deerfield High School in Illinois because it leads to discussion of homosexuality and HIV/AIDS,  according to both  North Shore Student Advocacy (NSSA), and Concerned Women for America (CWA).

The two groups are even demanding Superintendent George Fornero, Principal Sue Hobson and any teachers who allowed the text to be added to the high school curriculum be ousted by the school board. The board caved slightly, removing the play from the required reading list to make it optional.

"After almost 15 years of school advocacy and reviewing many objectionable books and curricula, I have never seen anything this vulgar and harmful to students," argued Lora Sue Hauser, executive director of NSSA. (How anyone could find an angel "vulgar" is beyond us!) [more]

One "objectionable" scene:

Man: What do you want?
Louis: I want you to fuck me, hurt me, make me bleed.
Man: I want to.
Louis: Yeah?
Man: I want to hurt you.
Louis: Fuck me.
Man: Yeah.
Louis: Hard?
Man: Yeah. You been a bad boy?

The NCSA monitors all proposed curriculum materials and makes exact counts of all the bad words and graphic scenes. "Fuck" is uttered 50 times in Angels.

Okay, we admit it is a little hardcore ... but this is a course for students about to head off to college. At that level, shouldn't they be challenged to discuss all elements of the play, including the f-bombs, themselves?

Last year, the NSSA fought against a freshman orientation seminar sponsored by the student Gay / Straight Alliance, designed to promote tolerance of gay students. What a bunch of FUCKING BITCHES.