School takes 1st-graders to see lesbian teacher get married

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   Prophecy Teacherposted 15 years ago

   WorldNetDaily
   Monday, October 13, 2008
   
   School takes 1st-graders to see lesbian teacher wed
   'This is an overt indoctrination of children who are too young'
   
   
   
   A public school in San Francisco bused 18 first-graders to City Hall yesterday, so the youngsters could scatter rose petals in celebration of their lesbian teacher's wedding.
   
   The students, from Creative Arts Charter School, waited on the steps for their teacher with bags of pink rose petals, bottles of bubbles and, at least for some, with political buttons asking Californians to vote down Proposition 8, a ballot measure that seeks to define marriage in the state as a union between one man and one woman.
   
   "She's a really nice teacher. She's the best," 6-year-old Chava Novogrodsky-Godt told the San Francisco Chronicle, wearing a "No on 8" button on her shirt. "I want her to have a good wedding."
   
   As WND reported, supporters of California's Proposition 8 have claimed that combining legalized same-sex marriage with the state's mandate that schools "teach respect for marriage and committed relationships" would result in kindergartners being taught the virtues of homosexual marriage. Opponents have called such arguments fabrications and scare tactics.
   
   Yesterday's field trip wasn't quite kindergartners, but it was close.
   
   "It shows that not only can it happen, but it has already happened," said Chip White, press secretary for the Yes on 8 campaign.
   
   "It's just utterly unreasonable that a public school field trip would be to a same-sex wedding," White told the Chronicle. "This is overt indoctrination of children who are too young to have an understanding of its purpose."
   
   The school's interim director Liz Jaroflow, however, defended the field trip to a homosexual wedding as academically justifiable.
   
   "It really is what we call a teachable moment," she told the Chronicle. "I think I'm well within the parameters."
   
   Jaroflow also told the Chronicle that despite the potential objections of some the decision was not controversial for her, and that "it's certainly an issue I would be willing to put my job on the line for."
   
   According to the Chronicle, the field trip was a surprise to the teacher, Erin Carder, and originally proposed by a parent.
   
   "How many days in school are they going to remember?" asked parent Mark Lipsett. "This is a day they'll definitely remember."
   
   Carder married Kerri McCoy on the office balcony of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who officiated the ceremony.
   
   As the couple held hands on the balcony overlooking the City Hall's rotunda, Carder proclaimed, "With this ring I thee wed!" shouting the last word for emphasis.
   
   The couple told the Chronicle that they have participated in campaigning against Proposition 8 and planned to travel around the city after the ceremony in a motorized trolley car with banners reading "Just Married" and "Vote No on 8."
   
   Two families of children in the class chose not to give permission for the trip, their children remaining at the school with another first-grade class.

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   knolyourselfposted 15 years ago

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   thranaxposted 15 years ago

   Thats interesting. From Massachusetts, where its legal and all if you look at weddings in the paper its quite common, although they don't normally bus 1st graders to them.
   
   ~thranax~

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   Uninvited Writerposted 15 years ago

   Obviously their parents approved of their kids being there so what is the problem?
   It's no more gay indoctrination than it is heterosexual indoctrination when you take your kids to weddings between a man and a woman.

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      thranaxposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Well the parents might have supported it, but Republicans and people who support the traditional way act out ageist it even if all the party's concerned in the actions are content.
      
      ~thranax~

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   kerrygposted 15 years ago

   I agree with Uninvited Writer. The article specifically states that the kids whose parents did not want them to go did not attend, but spent the time with another first grade class. If the other parents didn't have a problem, why should you?
   
   Personally, I think it's cute that she invited her students to the wedding. When I was in third grade my teacher got married over winter break. We weren't invited, but the whole class was thrilled when she brought in pictures to share with us, also on school time. Too bad we were too young to understand we were being indoctrinated into the heteronormative lifestyle. Maybe I would have become a lesbian if only I'd known enough to skip the photo indoctrination session instead of just being happy for someone in love.

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   Mishaposted 15 years ago

   Sanity prevails

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