{"id":3636,"date":"2011-02-02T10:34:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T16:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/district-2-elects-homophobe-to-school-board\/"},"modified":"2011-02-02T10:34:17","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T16:34:17","slug":"district-2-elects-homophobe-to-school-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/district-2-elects-homophobe-to-school-board\/","title":{"rendered":"District 2 Elects Homophobe to School Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/metro\/022333128381newsmetro02-02-11.htm\">ABQJOURNAL NEWS\/METRO: 2 Fresh Faces Join Board<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Katherine Korte won in District 2\u2026. Korte, whose background is as a parent-teacher association president and mother of four, said networking with parents is one of her strengths. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#8217;m not going to base decisions on what I think is best or what administrators tell me is best. <font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">I really want to hear from parents and teachers and make this a representative position<\/font>.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/metro\/022333128381newsmetro02-02-11.htm\">ABQJOURNAL NEWS\/METRO: 2 Fresh Faces Join Board<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, except for the ones who believe homosexuality is OK.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/metro\/2823714811newsmetro01-28-11.htm\">ABQJOURNAL NEWS\/METRO: Candidates Speak on Social Issues<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a questionnaire developed by a conservative group calling itself Concerned Citizens for APS Reforms, candidates gave insight into their views on some controversial issues. Katherine Korte, who is running in District 2, wrote in response to a question about sexual diversity education: &quot;I would define it as teaching children that it is OK to be in a gay\/lesbian relationship, to have bisexual tendencies and or <em>perverted<\/em> views of sex. We don&#8217;t need this type of &#8216;education&#8217; in our schools. <font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">There is right and there is wrong. And I don&#8217;t want any educator telling my child that sexual diversity is OK<\/font> &#8230;&quot;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/metro\/2823714811newsmetro01-28-11.htm\">ABQJOURNAL NEWS\/METRO: Candidates Speak on Social Issues<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABQJOURNAL NEWS\/METRO: 2 Fresh Faces Join Board Katherine Korte won in District 2\u2026. Korte, whose background is as a parent-teacher association president and mother of four, said networking with parents is one of her strengths. &quot;I&#8217;m not going to base decisions on what I think is best or what administrators tell me is best. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/district-2-elects-homophobe-to-school-board\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">District 2 Elects Homophobe to School Board<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}