Comments on: First Grade Field Trip to Teacher’s Gay Wedding

By: Macy

Macy — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:01:18 +0000

Tolerance is not the answer here and why should anyone be forced to tolerate immoral behavior? We decide what is acceptible or what is moral. This is BS and people should be mad. This is nothing less than brain washing children and forcing their behavior on them and making taxpayers pay for the trip! It is not right, it is not normal and it is not okay to bring this in the classroom. The liberals are out of control. This teacher/principal should be fired. Tax payers pay their salaries and this is unacceptible.

By: cls

cls — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:02:47 +0000

It is shameful that you would repeat a series of lies like this. Here are some undisputed facts.

Yes, as it was stated, this was a charter school with far more parental control.

Second, the idea to meet the teacher came from one of the parents not from the school.

Third, every single student who went did so with the signed permission of their parents. So it was the parents, not the school who sent them.

Fourth, parents accompanied their children to City hall.

Fifth, no student attended the wedding as reported. They waited outside to greet their teacher AFTER her wedding.

Since this was done with parental permission exactly how does this undermine parental control. The reall opponents of parental control are the people doing the attacking since this was a parental project from start to finish. Or are you saying parents shouldn’t have the right to teach their values to their kids? Are you saying parents don’t have the right to remove their children, for one hour, from the school?

Shouldn’t you verify the facts before you report how “outraged” you are. My clue that it was lie was when I saw the Prop 8 site didn’t mention the school. Then I found the article they based their claims on and saw that had deleted a lot of facts particularly that this was done with parental permission. But it sure lets you exhibit your antigay views even if the story is filled with falsehoods.

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:53:32 +0000

This idea of gay rights is a misnomer. It’s too bad people are accepting this perversion of reality.

Here is a litmus test for when to apply rights. You will not meet a formerly Black man. You can however meet a formerly gay man. There are treatment programs which can return a gay man to a normal heterosexual life.

Put a stop to the erosion of morality by voting yes on proposition 8.

By: brandy

brandy — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:06:51 +0000

Proposition 8 would write bigoted religious dogma into the California Constitution.

By: diane

diane — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:57:54 +0000

I am so glad that I don’t live around such fruitloops as these…and taking children on a field trip? What objectives were taught? This world is getting sicker every day. I hope that those 2 women enjoy this life because their eternal life is going to be HOT.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:33:44 +0000

It isn’t peculiar when you figure out it was a stunt and indoctrination attempt. It was a publicity stunt, and I have to wonder how long it will take the homosexual movement to figure out that crap like this backfires against their cause every time.

By: Andrea s

Andrea s — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:19:55 +0000

By the way gay people can and do have children of their own.. I agree that the happy couple could and should have sent invitations out and had the wedding on a weekend. Did the teacher get paid for this day? very peculiar..

By: John W

John W — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:34:53 +0000

Swibbie wrote: I would like to challenge the reading impaired public school educated flunkie who posted that this was a charter school. It clearly states in the article that it is a PUBLIC school.

The school in question is a charter school. See their site at http://www.creativeartscharter.org/

They not only encourage, but require, parental involvement. For the first grade, the curriculum includes this: “Concepts of cultural difference and acceptance of those differences are highlighted for each child in the classroom and families are invited to come in and share their personal traditions.”

I’m sure the governance structure in place a the school is well able to handle any concerns on the part of parents — without the interference of outsiders.

By: HookdOnFoniks

HookdOnFoniks — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:33:29 +0000

Rather than reading a slanted extract of the news, how about getting the real story? Little things won’t get left out.

Things like the trip being proposed and developed by some of the students’ parents, not the teacher? Things like parents being required to sign permission slips that clearly explained the purpose of the trip and all but two of the students got permission? But I guess it wouldn’t be as inflammatory with all the information.

By: EJ CW

EJ CW — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:15:23 +0000

Apparently, what I said was too poignant for this website. It was quickly removed. I likened an intolerance to teach kids about same-sex marriage to an intolerance to teach kids that interracial marriage is okay. Apparently, that hit a nerve. It puts the issue into perspective far too clearly for this ideological page.