CATHEYS VALLEY, Calif. – Parents of students at Sierra Charter Foothill School are elated after they forced the district to abandon plans to show a play about gay penguins to kindergartners.

Board members of Sierra Charter Foothill School voted Tuesday to cancel the play “And Then Came Tango” after parents flooded the meeting to express their concerns about the production’s gay love theme, YourCentralValley.com reports.

“It’s about two men. They raise a baby and I don’t agree with that,” an unidentified parent told the news site.

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The play is based on the book “And Tango Makes Three” about a “true story” of two chinstrap penguins in New York’s Central Park Zoo named Roy and Silo who raised an egg together over six years.

The charter school agreed to let drama students from Fresno State University perform the play for all of the school’s kindergarten through eighth-grade students until parents stepped in to object, according to the news site.

The Mariposa Gazette reports that roughly 75 percent of parents who attended the school’s board meeting Tuesday did not want their children exposed to the homosexual message in the play.

“I think it’s the best thing for our community,” parent Shane Peterson told Your Central Valley.

“I’m not here to bash on the gays,” an unidentified parent said. “I want to teach my kids what (to) believe in my home, that’s it.”

The Fresno State Theatre Arts department has already performed the play for more than a dozen schools in California’s Central Valley so far this school year, department chair Melissa Gibson told Your Central Valley.

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“The message to me that comes across is it’s about families,” she said. “It poses the question: What constitutes a family?”

All nine members of the school board voted to ban the play after hearing from parents.

At least one parent thought it was a bad idea to ditch the program.

“We’re passively saying it’s not okay for you to be who you are, your identity is not accepted here,” parent Catalina Hernandez said. “And that’s terrible intolerance to send to kids.”

“And Tango Makes Three” is among several books promoted through The Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network as part of the National Education Association’s Read Across America event, EAGnews reported.

“This book is designed to help students realize that there are different family structures including families led by LGBT parents,” according to a GLSEN reading guide. “This is the true story of Roy and Silo, two male penguins who share a nest like other penguin couples, and who are given an egg in need of nurturing.”

“And Tango Makes Three,” written by the gay couple Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson, is listed by the American Library Association as the most challenged book between 2006 and 2010, with the exception of 2009, when it was the second-most challenged book, according to Wikipedia.