Prop. 8 battle rages over whether gay marriage would be taught in schools

[SoCalNative]

It was supposed to be a 90-minute excursion, a noontime field trip for a group of San Francisco charter school students and their parents to see the kids' lesbian teacher marry her partner in a wedding performed by Mayor Gavin Newsom.

But after the event was reported in the San Francisco Chronicle and picked up by cable television and the Internet, the first-graders at Creative Arts Charter School found themselves at the center of the hottest battle in the campaign over gay marriage: the question of whether failure to pass Proposition 8 would result in widespread classroom discussions of same-sex unions.

Supporters of the constitutional amendment, under which marriage would be defined as only between a man and a woman, contend that if Proposition 8 does not pass, gay marriage will be taught in public schools. "We are already seeing that happen," said Frank Schubert, campaign manager for Yes on 8.

The opposing side insists that this is fear-mongering and notes that there is no mention of schools or curriculum in the language of the proposition.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gayschools19-2008oct19,0,6474352.story

[ruggerson]

1. It's a charter school

And we wouldn't be hearing about it if kids had been brought to a hetero wedding. It was a WEDDING, for chrissakes, and many of these kids have same sex parents. This is just rightwing propoganda.

[amdezurik]

2. fundie morman's (an oxymoron right there)

are the driving force behind this BS. They want to shove their crazy cult down everyones throat.

[slackmaster]

6. I wouldn't want my first-grader to be taken to any kind of private ceremony

Unless there was a sound instructional reason for students to go to one.

[GinaMaria]

8. It sounds like the teacher invited students and parents to

the wedding. My first grade teacher was young and single. If she had gotten married during the school year, I suspect the whole class would have been invited as well as our families. Maybe not to the reception but to the ceremony definitely. We loved her, she loved us. The parents adored her. Mine invited her to dinner with our family often. I think the same is true of other students' families.

It doesn't sound like this was done on school time, or was scheduled as a field trip, but I could be mistaken.

[notalemming]

3. Presumably the knuckle-draggers believe same-sex marriage is morally equivalent to

child molestation, right? Are they crusading to remove "danger stranger" type discussions from classrooms too?

[slackmaster]

4. It was a little awkward for the California Teachers Association to donate $1 million to No on 8

That makes it difficult to argue that opponents of the ban aren't thinking about the effect it would have on education.

I understand that the reason the union took that position has more to do with the demographics of its membership than any concern about instructional content, but the timing was ham-handed.

[wtmusic]

5. In latest polling Prop 8 is 5% ahead

truly astounding. The AFA and Mormon church campaigns are working. :(

[glowing]

7. See, here's the thing.. It will be a mute point in time.. Do you think I care

or my young children are being taught to care.. Yeah, you've got old ass people who don't get it and start thinking dirty thoughts.. Seriously, I don't want to picture any of those old farts having sex either.. ewe.. so, the Supreme Court is going to go LEFT, and Gay marriage will be recognized, and life will go on, and when these old ass people die out, we will leave a better life of equality for our children.. You know, it wasn't all that long ago in the history of the US that women could vote or black and white children could go to school together.. so, we "perfect our union" and we'll get there.. I'm sorry for the struggle all GLBT face.. I'm sorry for those old ass people who are just old ass stupid heads.. But continue on we must.