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captainsblogThe following is a direct quote from a marketwatch.com article from earlier today on California's Proposition 8:
"We're talking about seven- and eight-year-old children being exposed to gay marriage in the schools, including being read a book, 'King and King,' that includes a scene of two men kissing. Our opponents want Californians to think that gay marriage is only about two loving adults, but the Supreme Court's ruling has profound consequences for all Californians, not the least of which is what kids will be taught in public schools."
In 2006, a Massachusetts teacher read the book "King and King" to her second grade class, which included Joey Wirthlin. His parents, Robert and Robin Wirthlin, met with the school principal to request that they be given advance notice before such material was taught to their son. The principal disagreed that the school had any obligation to notify parents in advance.
Both the United States District Court in Massachusetts and the First District Court of Appeals decided that schools are not required to inform parents in advance of teaching about same-sax parents. The courts dismissed the Wirthlins' claim that parents have a right to advance notice or to remove their children from the classroom when such material is taught.
They're right, of course. Think of the deterioration of society that could result from such portrayals of sax:
Heather's Mommy Has Two Spit Valves
Daddy's Sectionmate
Why Johnny Has No Reed
Not to mention EVERYONE knowing just how gay all those old big-band tunes are.
Save us from unnatural instrument sex before the lesbians get hold of the trombones!
ETA. I screencapped the page in case they get around to editing it. Meanwhile, I chanced to notice that the Yes On 8 spokesman is named (and I swear I am not making this up) Frank Schubert. Most likely named for the German composer who, by at least one significant account, was gay himself. Der bigot doth protest too much, methinks.
"We're talking about seven- and eight-year-old children being exposed to gay marriage in the schools, including being read a book, 'King and King,' that includes a scene of two men kissing. Our opponents want Californians to think that gay marriage is only about two loving adults, but the Supreme Court's ruling has profound consequences for all Californians, not the least of which is what kids will be taught in public schools."
In 2006, a Massachusetts teacher read the book "King and King" to her second grade class, which included Joey Wirthlin. His parents, Robert and Robin Wirthlin, met with the school principal to request that they be given advance notice before such material was taught to their son. The principal disagreed that the school had any obligation to notify parents in advance.
Both the United States District Court in Massachusetts and the First District Court of Appeals decided that schools are not required to inform parents in advance of teaching about same-sax parents. The courts dismissed the Wirthlins' claim that parents have a right to advance notice or to remove their children from the classroom when such material is taught.
They're right, of course. Think of the deterioration of society that could result from such portrayals of sax:
Heather's Mommy Has Two Spit Valves
Daddy's Sectionmate
Why Johnny Has No Reed
Not to mention EVERYONE knowing just how gay all those old big-band tunes are.
Save us from unnatural instrument sex before the lesbians get hold of the trombones!
ETA. I screencapped the page in case they get around to editing it. Meanwhile, I chanced to notice that the Yes On 8 spokesman is named (and I swear I am not making this up) Frank Schubert. Most likely named for the German composer who, by at least one significant account, was gay himself. Der bigot doth protest too much, methinks.