What do you think - education going overboard or acceptable?
**JUST TO CLARIFY EVERYTHING- i got this from another site that i am on. I found it was a very hot & heated topic & very interesting to read everyone's opinions. My personal feelings on it is that i have absolutely no problem with gay couples. I support gay marriage & have a best friend that is gay. I'm more on the fence about the age group they brought though because im not sure if at that age they under stand everything.. BUT there was an option to OPT OUT as another posters comment suggested & because that option was available i do NOT believe there should be a big fuss about it.
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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.
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Really? So if a 5 yr. old sees a same sex wedding they become GAY??? OMG!
"...teachers will be required to teach young children that there is no difference between gay marriage and traditional marriage."
Really? But...there IS no legal difference, right? When the hell did they decide to teach facts? Next thing you know they'll be teaching evolution...Oooops. Nevermind!
Umm...You "forgot" to mention that kids still need parental permission to go on field trips! So nobody was forced to do anything!
Why is that? Because you can't figure out NOT to sign permission slips?
No, it's letting kids know that people in love can choose marriage and it's letting kids who may later discover they're gay that it's okay.
I had several gay male friends who used to hang out at my house when my son was young. Guess what? My son isn't gay. He'd been told by gay men he was a cutie, but he's not gay. It just didn't happen. My daughter though? She not a lesbian. She does hang around with gay men, but that came with her theatre degree.
I'm a lesbian and my love and committments are every bit as real as anyone else's.
Because home schooled kids aren't gay? Oh...I've got a friend who is going to be very surprised!
I'm a lesbian and my love and committments are every bit as real as anyone else's. "
If that comment was towards me i defiantly have no problem with anyone who is gay at all. One of my best friends is gay & i support them. I saw this topic on another site i'm on & thought it would be a hot topic & wanted to read others opinions on it.
They can't find jobs? Tell them to vote for Obama!
It's only a "hot topic" because of the inflamatory suggestions in it, that turn out to be untrue.
Indicating that this was a non-public school and that parental consent was involved would have made the story less "hot", but it would have made it more accurate and more truthful.
Cheap bit of grandstanding by the opponents of Gay Marriage .