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LAST year New York City’s School Chancellor Joseph Fernandez promulgated a multicultural curriculum called The Children of the Rainbow, aimed in part at teaching grade-school children “positive aspects,” as the curriculum put it, of homosexual family life. The recommended reading includes books like Daddy’s Roommate (in which a young boy is surprised, then delighted, that his divorced father is so happy with his new, male friend) and Heather Has Two Mommies (in which a girl, the product of artificial insemination, finds that two mommies are at least as good as a mommy and a daddy). The curriculum met resistance but seemed destined to prevail through sheer parental fatalism until Community School District 24, in the heart of white ethnic Queens, flatly refused to accept it.

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LAST year New York City’s School Chancellor Joseph Fernandez promulgated a multicultural curriculum called The Children of the Rainbow, aimed in part at teaching grade-school children “positive aspects,” as the curriculum put it, of homosexual family life. The recommended reading includes books like Daddy’s Roommate (in which a young boy is surprised, then delighted, that his divorced father is so happy with his new, male friend) and Heather Has Two Mommies (in which a girl, the product of artificial insemination, finds that two mommies are at least as good as a mommy and a daddy). The curriculum met resistance but seemed destined to prevail through sheer parental fatalism until Community School District 24, in the heart of white ethnic Queens, flatly refused to accept it.