serenity not

It's hard to stay serene these days, before the annihilatory wishes of this government. This time it's the
Play School furore. Just about every Australian under-5 watches Play School at some point. It's a lovely program. I happen to know that two children from a two-mum family have appeared in filmed segments doing ordinary things like catch a bus. They were not wearing a big sign that said "Children of lesbians" at the time.
This week another child of lesbians (who we know) appeared in a playground segment and was heard in a voiceover referring to her "two mums". The nation's conservative politicians have gone haywire.The Communications Minister even rang the managing direction of the entire Australian Broadcasting Corporation to complain. This is outrageous. (I am so sick of feeling outraged by these idiots.)
Tony Abbot, whose daughters are now too old to watch Play School, says that he would have been shocked if he'd seen this segment with them. Get real Tony. Your children would not have been shocked. Okay, some of Olle's preschool classmates were curious, asking who the co-parent was and how she could be his mum when I was his mum. But they accepted the simple explanation: he has two mums. Fine. They liked him and played with him despite this "shocking" information. In turn, Olle was exposed to a child whose father had moved out of home "because he was mean to my mummy". More prosaically, he was exposed to the first time to children whose parents had "split up". He was exposed for the first time to children who go to church, which is shocking to me.
I could go on, but won't.
I heard a letter read out on the radio yesterday from a heterosexual woman whose toddler has a classmate with two mothers. I hope that many heterosexual parents feel moved to write similar types of letters ... letters from "politically correct" lesbians just don't count any more.