{"id":17468,"date":"2012-09-25T09:22:24","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T13:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=17468"},"modified":"2012-09-25T09:22:24","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T13:22:24","slug":"toronto-school-board-denies-promoting-polygamy-while-continuing-to-promote-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/toronto-school-board-denies-promoting-polygamy-while-continuing-to-promote-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto school board denies promoting polygamy while continuing to promote it"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Toronto District School Board has denied that the poster below, which is to be placed in their schools, promotes polygamy even though it plainly does.<\/p>\n

Employing Newspeak as the preferred refuge of last resort of beleaguered bureaucrats, a spokesman from the board said: \u201c\u2026the board does not support polygamy.<\/em> The images in question were meant to support an individual’s right to choose whom they love, regardless of gender. For example, the reason for depicting two women and one man was meant to show that a person can be attracted to more than one gender.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Of course<\/em> the board is promoting polygamy: if people have the right to choose whom they love,<\/em> i.e. have sex with, and there are three people at it, you have \u2013 yes, you\u2019ve guessed it \u2013 polygamy if they are “married”, polyamory if they are not.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the board would be more comfortable if they were known as the school of polyamory rather than polygamy.<\/p>\n

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From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

TORONTO — The Toronto District School Board is denying claims it’s promoting polygamy — just illustrating it exists as a family dynamic — with a poster campaign for gender-based violence prevention.<\/p>\n

The school board’s website depicts a series of five posters — one of them has the message “Love has no gender” in big white capital letters. Surrounding the slogan are various hearts containing different stick-figure people. In one of them there is an image of a man with two women; in another, two women with one man.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Toronto District School Board has denied that the poster below, which is to be placed in their schools, promotes polygamy even though it plainly does. Employing Newspeak as the preferred refuge of last resort of beleaguered bureaucrats, a spokesman … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":11,"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[2228,2229,1557],"class_list":["post-17468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polygamy","tag-polyamory","tag-polygamy","tag-toronto-school-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}