Given the widespread and general bigotry of Republican Ron DeSantis’s “Don’t Say Gay” law in Florida, the plight of the Lake County (Florida) School Board should be expected: do they placate the xenophobic glory-seeking presidential candidate by kowtowing to his policies of hate and discrimination, or do they demonstrate common sense to benefit the students in their care?
Turns out, Lake County is making one small step toward the latter, according to the Associated Press, reversing an earlier decision to remove the children’s book “And Tango Makes Three” from school shelves because the family of penguins written about in the children’s storybook has a factually-accurate depiction of two male penguins heading the family unit.
Reportedly one parent issued a complaint about the book, prompting school officials to remove it from the shelves at all schools. “And Tango Makes Three” describes a scene that happens in the wild, where two same-sex penguins will form a partner unit to raise a chick, a situation that is completely intolerable to conservatives who don’t believe science supports homosexuality in nature; in fact, homosexual relationships as well as transgenderism are found throughout the animal kingdom.