A group of first graders were taken on an indoctrinational field trip to witness a gay marriage in California, according to Protect Marriage. If traditional marriage is not upheld, this is what we’ll be getting everywhere.
In the same week that the No on 8 campaign launched an ad that labeled as “lies” claims that same-sex marriage would be taught in schools to young children, a first grade class took a school-sponsored trip to a gay wedding. Eighteen first graders traveled to San Francisco City Hall Friday for the wedding of their teacher and her lesbian partner, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. The school sponsored the trip for the students, ages 5 and 6, taking them away from their studies for the same-sex wedding. According to the Yes on 8 campaign, the public school field trip demonstrates that the California Supreme Court’s decision to legal same-sex marriage has real consequences.
“Taking children out of school for a same-sex wedding is not customary education. This is promoting same-sex marriage and indoctrinating young kids,” said Yes on 8—ProtectMarriage.com Campaign Co-Manager Frank Schubert. “I doubt the school has ever taken kids on a field trip to a traditional wedding,” Schubert said.
October 12, 2008 at 8:18 am
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Wow.
Just wow.
Can you think of something MORE insulting to traditional faith?
October 12, 2008 at 10:04 am
This is a topic that could tear the very fabric of our society to pieces. With the number of divorces in the country, children are already confused about marriage. Imagine a world in which parents need to explain the difference between a gay “marriage” and a traditional marriage. How can we raise children who in turn are prepared for the responsibilites of parenthood and family life if they are confused by the very basic principle of marriage?
For those who support defining marriage as only between a man and a woman, now is the time to get involved! Go to http://www.protectmarriage.com, and volunteer or donate. Even if you live outside of California, this WILL affect you, because all too often as goes California, so goes the nation.
October 12, 2008 at 1:52 pm
1. Look for the union label — and work and vote against it.
2. Always, always, always vote in your local school board elections. YOU govern the public schools; YOU are the government.
3. Focus on the problem, not on stereotyping all teachers as is done by at least one blogging priest.
— Mack, Republican and proudly non-union (and don’t think I haven’t caught [Newark Airport] for that) public-school teacher
October 12, 2008 at 2:34 pm
If anyone wonders why the world seems as if it is falling apart and madness and chaos are increasing, it is utterly sick and degenerate acts like this that is bringing us to a level of being sentimental brutes. Those who condone or promote homosexual acts let alone abominations like so-called gay marriage are in league with forces better left in the depths to which they were sent. And that include not a few liberal Catholic politicians and judges too cowardly to place their faith before their positions. For all his bluster, the Governor of Californuia is a moral wimp.
October 12, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Maybe in a couple years her students can attend her “divorce” ceremony.
October 12, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Speak out in an informed way. Get involved with your local school boards. We have to rescue the various tiers of government from the tyranny imposed by people who care about one thing – imposing their insatiable deviant practices on the majority of folk who are reasonable yet all too pliable when those noisy irrational folk push their misguided agendas.
And, we have to rescue language and academia from the bizarre pseudo-intellectuals who, by twisting the very meaning of words thereby empty words of their meaning thus making it possible to promote bizarre agendas, cram their agendas down the throats of people of goodwill. If we insist on dialogue that makes use of detail not stereotypes, if we insist on informed debate rather than passion driven empty-headed soap box verbal derbies, the opposition will wilt.
We must get involved and persevere in justice! We must be stubborn, irresistible models of truth. We must have on hand the facts to support a rational position on sexuality (NFP, heterosexual monogamous marriage, chastity, etc.). We must show cause and effect, e.g., permissiveness and sexual deviance led to AIDS crisis; permissive attitudes toward divorce has led to disintegration of marriage; allowing the gay agenda beyond basic human rights common to all people is leading to indoctrination and imposition of gay lifestyle on young children.
October 13, 2008 at 2:33 am
Every one of those children had a consent signed by their parents. No one was forced to go. Any parent could have opted out of the event. Parents had a choice and they made it. Do you really support taking away a prents right to choose?
October 13, 2008 at 2:54 am
From the article in the San Francisco Gate:
A parent came up with the idea for the field trip – a surprise for the teacher on her wedding day.
“She’s such a dedicated teacher,” said the school’s interim director Liz Jaroslow.
But there was a question of justifying the field trip academically. Jaroflow decided she could.
“It really is what we call a teachable moment,” Jaroflow said, noting the historic significance of same-sex marriage and related civil rights issues. “I think I’m well within the parameters.”
October 13, 2008 at 2:59 am
I agree with Josue – the parents consented so what is the issue? I think it is great to bring kids up to accept different types of lifestyles. Maybe these kids will now grow up less likely to be filled with hate for those who are different from them – that’s probably why their parents agreed to it in the first place. I have been to a gay wedding and it was so refreshing to see a group of small town women up dancing with part of the lesbian community. Times are changing ya’all – and you guys are going to look like the grumpy people scared of things you don’t understand if you don’t get with it.
October 13, 2008 at 3:12 am
So, odds on someone getting permission, in a public school, to take the kids to their High Mass Catholic Wedding?
Because if you object, you’re a bigot!
October 13, 2008 at 3:13 am
“Times are changing ya’all – and you guys are going to look like the grumpy people scared of things you don’t understand if you don’t get with it.”
Said by an earnest and progressive citizen of Sodom to Abraham.
October 13, 2008 at 4:37 am
Foxfier:
While in public school I went to:
High Mass
Synagouge
Buddist Temple
Hare Krishna service
Wiccan service
Protestant Prayer Meeting
All with my parents permission. No one was called anything if you did not attend. We all understood when the other classmates’ parent did not want to go – no biggie. My kids did the same, same reaction to those who did not go.
John Hetman:
Lot was in Sodom, not Abraham. Sodom was an issue of improper treatment by the population of travelers. To this day this is a capital offence in the area. Historical contextual clues have always shown that was the issue, not red herring of homosexuality.
Please get your story straight before you use an allegory.
October 13, 2008 at 4:45 am
Jose-
1) As class trips for six year olds?
2) Still not a teacher’s wedding.
Yes, Lot was in Sodom, but his uncle Abraham is the one that argued with God for them, because they didn’t follow the Laws.
http://www.sundayschoollessons.com/pen8ales.htm
October 13, 2008 at 4:58 am
“Sodom was an issue of improper treatment by the population of travelers. To this day this is a capital offence in the area. Historical contextual clues have always shown that was the issue, not red herring of homosexuality”
So…. why did St. Paul refer to homosexuality as sodomy?
October 13, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Times are changing ya’all – and you guys are going to look like the grumpy people scared of things you don’t understand if you don’t get with it.
Times can change all they want – but God’s Word doesn’t. I’d rather look like a grumpy gus now than be one for eternity.
October 13, 2008 at 2:25 pm
“Sodom was an issue of improper treatment by the population of travelers.”
Kind of like making them sleep on park benches, right? Which is why God was so furious that He forbade Lot’s wife from witnessing that fury. And why Lot offered his daughters to prevent the their mistreatment. And why revisionism mimics the old Soviet Union’s concept of history–making it whatever suits the purpose…in this case…anal sex. In others, female ordination, and soon, in the co-management of the Earth with the great apes…the ones that are not already in government service.
October 13, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Sodom was an issue of improper treatment by the population of travelers.
Exactly, which is why even to this day we refer to inhospitality as sodomy.
October 13, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Sodom was an issue of improper treatment by the population of travelers
Josue included a typo in this sentence. I think he meant to type: “Sodom was an issue of improper treatment by the copulation of travelers.”
October 13, 2008 at 11:00 pm
None of the field trips I went to were religion-based. Hindu, Wiccan, Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, and Buddhist? All I got were flower gardens, art museums, planetariums and zoos. Now I’m missing out on same-sex weddings!! Life is so unfair.
October 14, 2008 at 12:43 am
“Now I’m missing out on same-sex weddings!! Life is so unfair.”
Chin up, Tom, with the slippery slope of moral degeneracy in our society, you may be invited to the first legal marriage between a man and his dog probably in Massachusetts, Connecticut, or California. It coming soon…and you read it here first! Just wait till Gov. Armold signs it into law in 2016…and kids get “encouraged” to attend the wedding festivities.