[Dave]

There are no words to describe this . . . .

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"Overt indoctrination"

San Francisco first graders get ‘field trip’ to same-sex wedding

SAN FRANCISCO, October 11 /Christian Newswire/ -- 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 on Friday, Oct. 10, 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."

When asked by the Yes on 8 campaign, the Chronicle reporter said she did not know if the school had ever sponsored a field trip for students to a traditional wedding. The school’s principal told the Chronicle that the field trip was "a teachable moment" that was perfectly appropriate for first graders.

Officials in other school districts disagree.

"Prop. 8 protects our children from being taught in public schools that 'same-sex marriage' is the same as traditional marriage," said Santa Ana Unified School District board member Rosemarie "Rosie" Avila. "We should not accept a court decision that results in public schools teaching our kids that gay marriage is okay. That is an issue for parents to discuss with their children according to their own values and beliefs. It shouldn't be forced on us against our will.”

The lesbian teacher's wedding was officiated by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. Newsom is featured in a Yes on 8 television ad, released last week, in which he arrogantly declares of same-sex marriage: "The door's wide open now. It's gonna happen, whether you like it or not."

The Yes on 8 campaign's ads explain that if the voters do not overturn the California Supreme Court's same-sex marriage ruling, teachers will be required to teach young children that there is no difference between gay marriage and traditional marriage.

"It's totally unreasonable that a first grade field trip would be to a same-sex wedding," said Chip White, press secretary for Yes on 8. "This is overt indoctrination of children who are too young to understand it."

The trip underscores the Yes on 8 campaign's message that unless Prop. 8 passes, children will be taught about same-sex marriage in public schools, said White. "Not only can it happen, it has already happened," he said.

[homeschoolmom]

I couldn't finish the article. This is so stupid.

Inviting students to a wedding is one thing. I have known of many single teachers who invite their classes to their weddings. However, they are not during class hours. A wedding (of any type) is not a "field trip." This is crazy and the school should not have sponsored it. I'm pretty sure if it were a nuptial mass, it would not be on the field trip list.

ETA: I finished the article... :ohno:

[SpareTime]

Massachusetts, then California. i am not at all surprised. how sad.

[MissyP89]

I don't think this will "make" kids gay. But I don't like what it promotes.

[Sacred Music Man]

I saw the Futurama episode where Fry dates a robot. enough said... same principals :mellow:


































:mellow:


plz don't hurt me :tomato:

This post has been edited by Sacred Music Man: 13 October 2008 - 09:15 PM

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Sacred Music Man, on Oct 13 2008, 08:14 PM, said:

I saw the Futurama episode where Fry dates a robot. enough said... same principals :mellow:


































:mellow:


plz don't hurt me :tomato:

DON'T DATE ROBOTS!!!!!

[jmjtina]

[Saint Therese]

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Photo courtesy Liz Hafalia, San Francisco Chronicle

A public school in San Francisco bused 18 first-graders to City Hall yesterday, so the youngsters could scatter rose petals in celebration of their lesbian teacher's wedding.

The students, from Creative Arts Charter School, waited on the steps for their teacher with bags of pink rose petals, bottles of bubbles and, at least for some, with political buttons asking Californians to vote down Proposition 8, a ballot measure that seeks to define marriage in the state as a union between one man and one woman.

"She's a really nice teacher. She's the best," 6-year-old Chava Novogrodsky-Godt told the San Francisco Chronicle, wearing a "No on 8" button on her shirt. "I want her to have a good wedding."

As WND reported, supporters of California's Proposition 8 have claimed that combining legalized same-sex marriage with the state's mandate that schools "teach respect for marriage and committed relationships" would result in kindergartners being taught the virtues of homosexual marriage. Opponents have called such arguments fabrications and scare tactics.

Yesterday's field trip wasn't quite kindergartners, but it was close.

"It shows that not only can it happen, but it has already happened," said Chip White, press secretary for the Yes on 8 campaign.

"It's just utterly unreasonable that a public school field trip would be to a same-sex wedding," White told the Chronicle. "This is overt indoctrination of children who are too young to have an understanding of its purpose."

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The school's interim director Liz Jaroflow, however, defended the field trip to a homosexual wedding as academically justifiable.

"It really is what we call a teachable moment," she told the Chronicle. "I think I'm well within the parameters."

Jaroflow also told the Chronicle that despite the potential objections of some the decision was not controversial for her, and that "it's certainly an issue I would be willing to put my job on the line for."

According to the Chronicle, the field trip was a surprise to the teacher, Erin Carder, and originally proposed by a parent.

"How many days in school are they going to remember?" asked parent Mark Lipsett. "This is a day they'll definitely remember."

Carder married Kerri McCoy on the office balcony of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who officiated the ceremony.

As the couple held hands on the balcony overlooking the City Hall's rotunda, Carder proclaimed, "With this ring I thee wed!" shouting the last word for emphasis.

The couple told the Chronicle that they have participated in campaigning against Proposition 8 and planned to travel around the city after the ceremony in a motorized trolley car with banners reading "Just Married" and "Vote No on 8."

Two families of children in the class chose not to give permission for the trip, their children remaining at the school with another first-grade class.

[doe-jo]

wow

[Saint Therese]

:sadder:

[Majella]

Sick, sick, sick!!! Oppose them at every chance; FIGHT for our children!!!!

[shadowedseraph]

Thats awful :bigshock:

[homeschoolmom]

merged the threads