Speaking as a teacher and hopefully a future parent:

I usually keep quiet about my personal views, especially around election time unless somebody outright asks me a question. I live my life kindly and honestly and usually feel good about just that. However, a recent event has peeked my voice! Please know that I am not trying to tell anybody how to live their own lives, but just thinking as an educator and future parent (hopefully some day). When the day comes that we have children, I want to be the one to teach them about our beliefs, standards, and especially about issues of intimacy and marriage. My husband and me; not my kids teachers, friends' parents, coaches, or anybody else. Just my husband and me. Read for yourself what is already happening in our state! I have never heard of students going on a field trip to their teacher's wedding! It just is not right. As an educator, I know that I would never take the students on a field trip unless it was academically connected to our curriculum. Academically. There are just not enough minutes in the school year to teach all that needs to be taught to take time away from their education of the CA state standards. Well, here is what happened and why a "yes" vote on Prop. 8 is so important. Protect our rights as parents and educators to teach our children/students the way they should be taught. Academics at school and beliefs at home.

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SAN FRANCISCO, October 11 – In the same week that the No on 8 campaign launched an ad that labeled as “lies” claims that same-sex marriage would be taught in schools to young children, a first grade class took a school-sponsored trip to a gay wedding. Eighteen first graders traveled to San Francisco City Hall Friday for the wedding of their teacher and her lesbian partner, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. The school sponsored the trip for the students, ages 5 and 6, taking them away from their studies for the same-sex wedding. According to the Yes on 8 campaign, the public school field trip demonstrates that the California Supreme Court's decision to legalize same-sex marriage has real consequences.

"Taking children out of school for a same-sex wedding is not customary education. This is promoting same-sex marriage and indoctrinating young kids," said Yes on 8—ProtectMarriage.com Campaign Co-Manager Frank Schubert. "I doubt the school has ever taken kids on a field trip to a traditional wedding," Schubert said.

When asked by the Yes on 8 campaign, The San Francisco Chronicle reporter said she did not know if the school had ever sponsored a field trip for students to a traditional wedding. 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. Officials in other school districts disagree.

"Prop. 8 protects our children from being taught in public schools that 'same-sex marriage' is the same as traditional marriage," said Santa Ana Unified School District board member Rosemarie "Rosie" Avila. "We should not accept a court decision that results in public schools teaching our kids that gay marriage is okay. That is an issue for parents to discuss with their children according to their own values and beliefs. It shouldn't be forced on us against our will," Avila added.

The lesbian teacher's wedding was officiated by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. Newsom is featured in a Yes on 8 television ad, released last week, in which he arrogantly declares of same-sex marriage: "The door's wide open now. It's gonna happen, whether you like it or not."

The Yes on 8 campaign's ads explain that if the voters do not overturn the California Supreme Court's same-sex marriage ruling, teachers will be required to teach young children that there is no difference between gay marriage and traditional marriage. “It's totally unreasonable that a first grade field trip would be to a same-sex wedding," said Chip White, Press Secretary for Yes on 8. "This is overt indoctrination of children who are too young to understand it.” The field trip underscores the Yes on 8 campaign’s message that unless Prop. 8 passes, children will be taught about same-sex marriage in public schools. “Not only can it happen, it has already happened,” White said.

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Media contacts:
Northern & Central California (Sacramento Press Office): Chip White, 916-215-4392
Los Angeles & Southern California: Sonja Eddings Brown, 818-993-4508

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Taken directly from the protectmarriage.com website. But you can also find many newspaper articles about it online here. Protect our rights.