<![CDATA[Why Not Ask Presidential Candidates to Say When Schoolchildren Should Be Exposed to Stories About Divorce?]]>

1.0 link 66683 <![CDATA[Why Not Ask Presidential Candidates to Say When Schoolchildren Should Be Exposed to Stories About Divorce?]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-heffernan/why-not-ask-presidential-_b_66683.html If anyone wants fresh evidence of just how far the religious right has warped political discourse in this country, consider the first question that Allison King of New England Cable News put to all three leading Democratic candidates for president last Wednesday night:

"Last year some parents of second-graders in Lexington, Massachusetts, were outraged to learn that their children's teacher had read a story about same-sex marriage, about a prince who marries another prince. "Same-sex marriage is legal in Massachusetts...

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