SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- A group of San Francisco first-graders took a field trip to City Hall to attend the marriage of their lesbian teacher.
The students from the Creative Arts Charter School students took a city bus to City Hall to toss rose petals and blow bubbles on their just-married teacher Erin Carder and her wife Kerri McCoy, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday. Isn't that sweet...
The newspaper reported that a parent came up with the idea for the field trip, which was a surprise for the teacher. Where were the rest of the parents that they would allow this?
The school's interim director Liz Jaroflow said the field trip was educational.
"It really is what we call a teachable moment," Jaroflow said.
The class junket drew criticism from proponents of Proposition 8, which would outlaw same-sex marriage in California. Ya think?
"It's just utterly unreasonable that a public school field trip would be to a same-sex wedding," said Chip White, spokesman for the Yes on 8 campaign. "This is overt indoctrination of children who are too young to have an understanding of its purpose."
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Telling the Chronicle that the field trip was "a teachable moment," the school's principal believes it is perfectly appropriate for first graders to attend a same-sex wedding. And just exactly what were they teaching them? Officials in other school districts disagree. Ah, a light shineth in the dark
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The world has gone mad............
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H/T St. John's Valdosta
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8 comments:
ewwwwwwwwwww. Get me a bucket.
ok, I'm ready to lose my tummy right now.. yuck!
Just a decade or so ago, this kind of ... do I dare say "outing"? - would have been grounds for charges of moral turpitude, contributing to the delinquincy of a minory, etc.
Yep. The world has gone mad - because good Christian people have been bullied into giving in without a real fight.
Get your armor on. We're in for a long siege.
Therese and Tracy - (hmmmm - sounds like a girl band) I agree. It makes me want to spew!
Laura - we'll have to start a full fledged campaign.
It is important to point out that this sort of thing is the logical result of the legal sanctioning of same-sex marriage. Once same-sex partnerships are put on the same legal footing as traditional marriages, what possible secular objection could be raised to helping children understand those relationships? Just as we make no effort to shield children from traditional marriage in our society, once same-sex marriage is normalized, there will be no generally accepted reason to shield them from homosexual marriage.
I say this not to defend what happened in California, but simply to point out the relentless logic of the ongoing transformation of society when it comes to the legitimization of homosexual conduct. The kind of "eeeew, yuck" sentiments expressed on this board will not be suffient to turn this tide. Intead, what is needed is a principled defense of traditional marriage and the values that underpin it -- a defense grounded not soley in religious principle but primarily in natural law and the conventional understanding of marriage as it developed over time in the Anglo-American legal tradition.
Thanks for another very intelligent assessment. I think we tend to go ewwww and yuck because we feel so powerless. I know I do.
To continue your thought - what I see happening is the abandonment of marriage, as least as we know it. We'll end up with some sort of "renewable" contract. If everyone and their brother, not to make a pun, can “marry” than why get married at all? Considering the number of people cohabitating now who will want “legal” rights, they might as well chuck the whole thing in the wastebasket and start with something else. If Bob and Joe and their BFF Jane and Betty get married, marriage doesn’t mean the same thing at all.
Well – you can just sort out what I said in put it in attorney language…
An interesting response to my post. Of course, and I say this simply to provide context, but the "contractualization" of marriage -- viewing it simply as a contract -- is something that happened a good while ago throughout the U.S. No fault divorce essentially reduced marriage to the status of a terminable contract -- marriage became a contract that can be nullified at will by one of the parties any reason or no reason at all. And we've had no fault divorce in most of the U.S. since the early 1970's.
The key thing to understand in all this is that the growing recognition of same-sex marriage isn't just something that has happened overnight or in the last ten years or so. This movement has roots that go much deeper, and which draws from several different sources of change in our culture regarding sexual roles and sexual norms.
This, of course, doesn't mean that we don't fight to preserve the traditional definition of marriage. It is just to understand the nature of the battle. This fight involves understanding the interconnectedness of a whole host of issues: abortion, artifical contraception, cohabition, acceptance of homosexual activity, wide-spread divorce, etc. All of those things are themselves symptoms of a deeper problem.
Remember, all the struggles we are facing in this strange season all trace back to Eden. We are in a battle much older than what we can see...
Mark – absolutely! I do an 1 ½ hour class on how abortion et al, flows from contraception being legalized in the 1930’s. I cite all the major court rulings, moving up through Lawrence (sp?) in Texas re: sodomy (I’d need to have my notes to remember them all). I spent about 2 months researching court cases and it was pretty fascinating.
The concept of a terminable contract is one I bring up in RCIA each year when teaching about marriage(although I don’t call it that). If at any time one member of a contract can say, “there is no contract”, than it wasn’t much of contract to begin with - at least the way we are used to viewing a contract.
Mark – you really need to be teaching at your church to help people understand what it is we can do to help. These issues are escalating at warp speed.
I was there for much of what started all this (no, not the Garden of Eden - but close), and my very brilliant Mother filled me in on her generation, the Roaring Twenties and beyond.
I can remember having conversations with my friend from the dance business before her death about 6 years ago. Trust me –we were no angels. She used to say, “darling, they’re not doing anything we didn’t do. The difference is we knew it was wrong.”
And there is the problem. If you don’t even know you are doing something wrong – well, God help us!
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