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As a bit of background, some parents arranged for some students to meet to their well-loved teacher after her wedding to her same-sex partner on the courthouse steps after the wedding.
The yes on Prop 8 people now have pictures of the children at the wedding up on commercials, without permission of the parents, who are horrified, or the owner of the tape, the San Francisco Chronicle, I believe. The point of the commercial seems to be that passage of prop 8 may require your loverly son or daughter may be forced to be exposed to such horrors themselves.
Yet again I've got the vapors. Children weren't required to go, the event wasn't even arranged by the school, the problem seems to be that some parents (probably quite a few related to me) find it horrifying for their children to find out that people of the same sex can (for at least awhile) in California, get married. Furthermore, the school was a chartered arts school, the kind created to allow the parents more leeway in the sorts of education their children will be getting. So, I'm guessing here that this school was known to be gay friendly, so a gay teacher would not be a shock to the students or the parents.
All you nervous parents, take your kids out of the public schools and enroll them in strict Chrisitian ones... now that forbid the eating of shellfish, the mixing of linen and cotton, the enforcement of a widow to sleep with her brother-in-law, (levirate marriage) and so forth. Oh, oh, oh, and the killing of unruly sons. Everyone will be happier. Well, maybe not the sons, but it's too late for them
***all rules from the BIble.
Post updated to note that parents, not the school, arranged the outing. Thank you Patrick, from the comments.
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2 comments:
"The yes on Prop 8 people now have pictures of the children at the wedding up on commercials, implying that your loverly son or daughter may be forced to be exposed to such horrors themselves. Yet again I've got the vapors. Children weren't required to go, the problem seems to be that some parents (probably quite a few related to me) find it horrifying for their children to find out that people of the same sex can (for at least awhile) in California, get married."
Not only were children not required to go, the whole outing was the idea of the parents and children (not of the school). Parents had the opportunity to opt out, if they so choose (and a couple did).
So, evidently, the problem here is not that it's horrifying for people that their children my find out about same-sex marriage, the problem is that it's horrifying for *other* people's children to find out about same sex marriage. They want to not only control what their children are learning, they want to control what *your* children are learning, too.
Patrick Meighan
Culver City, CA
djinn,
fwiw, I didn't expect you to delete your comments, nor do I expect you to never talk to me again. I'd just appreciate some benefit of the doubt, that's all.
And, in answer to your question, I don't vacuum in pearls. I don't vacuum as much as I should, to be honest. :) If you knew how weak and imperfect I really am, maybe our interactions could be different. I feel a bit like you react to some image you have of me, and I can tell you that it's not correct...as evidenced by the fact that you think I vacuum in pearls. :)
You are still welcome at my blog...please just don't come only to challenge my ideas or question me as a person, ok? Try to see and interact with me as a whole person, not just a nemesis on prop 8. There is much more to me and my life than prop 8, even as I obviously have strong feelings about it.
Again, I'm sorry you felt you had to remove all of your comments. I'm getting the sense that perhaps you felt hurt by what I said about pushing the limits, and I'm sorry.
Take care.
And I love the post about creative lunch ideas for halloween.
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