The Ecole Polytechnique Massacre, Twenty-Two Years Ago Today
Twenty-two years ago today 14 women — 13 students and a staff member — were murdered on the campus of Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique. Their killer, Marc Lepine, targeted female students in an engineering class and claimed to be “fighting feminism.”
The fourteen who died were Geneviève Bergeron, Hélène Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Maryse Laganière, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michèle Richard, Annie St-Arneault, Annie Turcotte, and Barbara Klucznick-Widajewicz.
The 20th anniversary of the killings drew a lot of attention in the Canadian media and blogosphere, and I
Rick Santorum Thinks Kids Don’t Know About Gays, and We Better Not Tell Them
“So what is going to be taught to our people in health class in our schools? What is going to be taught to our children about who in our stories, even to little children — what are married couples? What families look like in America? So, you are going to have in our curriculum, spread throughout our curriculum, worldview that is fundamentally different than what is taught in schools today? Is that not a consequence of gay marriage?”—Rick Santorum, chatting with a young Iowa voter yesterday.
Two things, Rick.
First: Yes. That’s what’s going to happen. In fact, it’s happening already, even in states without marriage