Comments on: Ruby-Sachs: Proposition 8 and the battle for the California classroom

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:25:51 +0000

Shouldn’t parents be more worried about their kids being able to marry losers than being able to marry someone of the same gender?

I mean, we don’t choose our sexual orientation, but we do choose the quality of our mates.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:22:36 +0000

i think kids don’t need to be taught about same-sex marriage in class, they already know of it from TV or maybe from hearing about someone known to them whose parents are a same-sex couple. There is no need to have bunches of parents raising irate shouts at a school of “you are indoctrinating my kids in this loathsome, degenrate lifestyle” blah, blah, blah all kinds of nonsense, etc. Best to leave all marriage straight or gay discussion out of the classroom and let the parents tell the kids themselves the info flawed however that might be.

That might save the school system from lawsuits and from crazed parents screaming about their parental rights to tell the kids stuff in their way according to their own values. And in an awful way, the parents might be right. It’s their right to raise the family accrding to their own values however warped. The kids may be warped by what the parents tell them but when they are finally off on their own and in college, then out into independent life, the outside world may have a way of showing them that maybe their parents were not quite so well informed after all about “certain things” like the right of all people to contentment and happiness married to the adult of their own choice and not of what some state would prefer for them.

School can avoid teaching things like that, because, eegads.. it’s in the newspaper, on TV, people in the stores will be saying one day, “Oh, did you know Johnny married Jimmy at last, and aren’t they a lovely couple!”

By: blacksteel

blacksteel — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:04:40 +0000

“So those parents who think that gay marriage equals gay sex can rest easy at night.”

That’s not what the parents’ fear is. The fear is clearly expressed in the ad when the child says “I can marry a princess” and the mother responds with a look of deep concern. The fear is that the child can become gay. The ad targets the fears of the many people who believe that being gay is a choice and a perversion that children can be lured into.

If you’re not convinced of what I’m saying and if the ad itself doesn’t convince you, then go to non-gay sites where articles about Prop 8 are posted and browse the reader comments. Sooner or later, in the midst of the discussions, those who support Prop 8 express their fears openly, and their fears are what I stated above.

The people who designed the ad knew exactly what they were doing and what audience they were targeting.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:31:52 +0000

Here in Mass, and I presume across Canada too, where Same sex marriage has been legal for sometime, schools have been shown to be much better at educating the children than in California, perhaps one could extrapolate that allowing Same sex marriage statistically equals better schools. This analogy of course is probably false, but equally false is the analogy that Same sex marriage equals teaching same sex practices in the schools too!