Meet Margaret Spelling, new director of the Education Department. Spelling has told PBS - which produces and airs much of America’s children’s programming - not to air an episode of Postcards from Buster in which Buster the bunny visits Vermont to learn about how to make maple syrup, and meets a child whose parents are a lesbian couple. “Many parents would not want their young children exposed to the lifestyles portrayed in the episode,” she said. And furthermore, “Congress’s and the department’s purpose in funding this programming certainly was not to introduce this kind of subject matter to children, particularly through the powerful and intimate medium of television.”

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Things like this make me so, so afraid.

I don’t want to raise children in a world that is afraid to show them gay couples on TV. I don’t want to have to tell them, over and over, that they have to be that much more tolerant and loving than the rest of the world. I want my children to look at same sex marriage the way I look at marriages between different ethnic groups. I don’t want them to grow up in a world full of hate, but I know they will. Society always needs a group to mock and make controversial legislation about.