Not Adam and Steve

"It was Adam and Eve, and not Adam and Steve!"
Say the mob at the gates of the school.
The fanatics agree with Mohammed's decree:
"No more queering the kids in the school!
Let our children be free from the LGBT,
Or it's mobs at the gates of the school!"

"It was Adam and Eve, and not Adam and Steve!"
Say the kids to the mob at the school.
To avoid a new bruise, for the teeth they may lose
If they anger the mob at the school.
Fundamentalists hate because Allah's so great,
And insist that their hate be in school.

"It was Adam and Eve, and not Adam and Steve!"
Politicians relay to the school.
"We don't relish a fight or a bomb in the night,
For the sake of the gays at the school!
Fundamentalists vote, as our pollsters all note.
No support for the staff at the school!"

"It was Adam and Eve, and not Adam and Steve!"
Say the mob at the gates of the school.
In the Molotovs' glow, in the flames that they throw,
They see djinn who'll devour the school.
"Let our children be free from the LGBT,
And may Allah reward us for burning the school!"

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Over the past months, mobs of homophobic Muslim fundamentalists have gathered outside schools in Birmingham to protest against the No Outsiders program -- which teaches children to respect everyone, regardless of race, sex, gender, sexual orientation etc. The protestors say they don't want kids learning it's okay to be gay, and have even accused teachers of "converting" their children to homosexuality.

And so they swarm at the gates, wave homophobic signs, yell fanatical idiocy into microphones, intimidate school staff. Bands of fundamentalists have also chucked eggs at LGBT people and allies for daring to speak up, and threatened to throw bricks through their windows.

Amid all that hatred and evil, a particular sign grabbed my attention. A niqabi brandished one which read: "Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve!" The slogan's familiar enough -- homophobes in America have been using that one for years. But I hadn't seen it on the streets of Britain before. Maybe I just missed it, or perhaps in the internet age anti-LGBT bigots have started borrowing ideas from one another.

Either way, the opening lines of the above poem popped into my head, and the rest followed.