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Wasn’t there an episode of King of the Hill about this?

An elementary school in Wisconsin is under fire by a Christian radio network – the head of which seems to have nothing better to do with his time – because it hosted an event that encouraged students to dress as members of the opposite gender.

As part of Wacky Week at Pineview Elementary in Reedsburg, students were encouraged to dress as either senior citizens or members of the opposite sex. Which was all good and fine… until some busybody told the Voice of Christian Youth America about it. The radio network’s director and host of nationally-syndicated show “Crosstalk” Jim Schneider promptly took to grandstanding. He said that “Our station is one that promotes traditional family values. It concerns us when a school district strikes at the heart and core of the Biblical values. To promote this to elementary-school students ...

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Here’s the link to my latest letter to the editor of the News & Record. I had a wonderful conversation with Becky Layton in the editorial department a few days ago when she called to verify that I wrote this (standard procedure for letters to be published) and I said then that I’m very serious about this suggestion. The News & Record staff had a great idea when they started encouraging blogging and commenting on op-ed pieces. Now here’s a chance to take it way on past the next level: ban all political labels, like “Democrat” and “Republican”, “conservative” and “liberal”, “right wing/left wing” etc.

Some will say that this will drastically limit the amount of material for the op-ed pages. No doubt that’s true. But it will encourage serious, engaging and even polite debate about real ideas, instead of the partisan bickering that has become so anemic. And there ...

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