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Will schools expel children of gays and lesbians?

Categories: Kids 5-7, Kids 8-11, Teens & Tweens, Gay Parenting, Education, Sex

Sara Sinasohn sitting at a school deskProponents of California's proposition 8 have put out a lot of misinformation, focusing mainly on schools; they claim that unless proposition 8 passes, California public schools will have to start teaching kids that they can only marry someone of the same gender as they are. Or something like that. In fact, schools will not suddenly turn into indoctrination factories for young homosexuals, any more so than they forced children to be involved in interracial relationships after the miscegenation laws were struck down.

As this article points out, however, even the passage of proposition 8 won't keep the subject of LGBT families out of the classroom -- unless the intent is to keep the children of gays and lesbians out of the classroom. "What happens," asks Dana Rudolph, "if a child mentions 'when my mommy and mama took me to Disneyland', and another student asks about her family structure?" The fact is, short of expelling the children of LGBT parents, there is no way to keep the subject of same-sex marriage out of the classroom.

That's not what Prop. 8 is really about, however. Its proponents are simply using the old "Oh noes! Won't someone please think of the children?" line to spread FUD -- fear, uncertainty, and doubt -- but really, the kids aren't the ones who have a problem with it. And no matter what you do, there will be discussion of same-sex marriage in the classroom, along with divorce and single parents and kids who live with their great-grandparents and so on. Because the kids are living it.

This post is part of and in support of Write to Marry Day.

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