Whateves Q&A on the 2008 Election and Propositions
Assuming you don’t know the ins and outs of every single ballot initiative for this election (I certainly do not), I thought it might be a good to use the Whateves forum for us to ask questions, and for other to answer them.
After listening to NPR conduct polls and interviews about young voters and how they feel about Proposition 8, A fundamental question struck me. A major source of support for banning Same Sex Marriage (aside from being uncomfortable with the idea of “redefining” marriage) is that if gay people are allowed to get married, then our (your) children will be learning about this newly defined marriage in school.
Which is when it occurred to me that I never heard about regular ol man and woman marriage in school. Yet this is something that several of the people interviewed today said “I don’t want my kids learning in school that now marriage means any two people can get married”. Am I wrong? Is anybody an educator on whateves? Can you confirm or deny if, or when, teaching grade schoolers about marriage is part of your curriculum? Is this something that they cover in private religious schools but not public schools? If so that’s even more infuriating. If this is only being taught in religious schools, maybe instead of amending the constitution to exclude the rights of some of our population, we should be changing it to have more strict secular teaching curriculum laws that apply to schools no matter of their ownership.
Anybody know the answer? Even if you don’t feel free to post questions here and then see if they get answered.
Here’s a resource – FactCheck.org
