Posted on 10/29/2008 8:20:47 AM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
HAYWARD (AP) ― A Bay Area elementary school got caught in the crossfire of a ballot initiative seeking to outlaw same-sex marriage in California on Tuesday after a kindergarten teacher asked her pupils to sign pledge cards promising not to use anti-gay slurs.
ProtectMarriage.com, the coalition of social and religious conservative groups sponsoring Proposition 8, offered the episode at Faith Ringgold Elementary School in Hayward as proof for its claim that the measure is needed to prevent public schools from discussing gay unions with students.
"Since the words 'between a man and a woman' have been taken out of the California laws, it has created a can opener for gay activists to take this kind of curriculum into our elementary schools—not 9th grade, not 12th grade, but kindergarten," said campaign spokeswoman Sonya Eddings Brown.
Produced by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, the cards were given to the children as part of Faith Ringgold elementary's commemoration of National Ally Week, an event sponsored by the network and designed to discourage harassment of gay teenagers.
"I am taking a stand for a safe and harassment-free school for all students, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression," read the pledges. "As an ally, I pledge to not use anti-LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) language or slurs."
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Kindergartners? This is so appalling that the liberals are taking this battle to our children!
That’s such a queer situation, it requires me to go have a fag and contemplate the consequences of the initiative.....
Those Breeders need to watch their mouths.
/sarcasm
A few years ago, we had to stop them from enacting “free” universal preschool. They’d teach it to preschoolers if they could.
The others will watch their backsides...........
What if we pledge to make all our slurs LGBT-neutral. Would that make them happy?
Kindergarteners can barely print their names, are they supposed to sign this now and be held accountable for it in, say, 14 years?
I got mad of myself for reading a book
about WWII that talked about London and
the way the people coped with the bombing.
It said they had gay parties and tried to
act as normal as possible.
I thought gay parties was used as the
corrupted use of the word.
I always treat people with respect but when it becomes a matter of state compulsion I start feeling subversive.
Years ago, the homosexual activists denied that they wanted to recruit in our schools. The reality of their agenda is finally coming to fruition. Unless we pass Prop 8 and teach these slime a lesson, they are going to force pro-homosexual propaganda on elementary school kids. Donate to ProtectMarriage.com if you can.
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